China tries to censor data about nearly 1 billion people in poverty
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Chinese government censors tried to control discussions about the country's economy this week.

China Tries To Censor Data About Nearly 1 Billion People in Poverty::Chinese government censors tried to control discussions about the country’s economy this week.

  • grayman@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3120·
    1 year ago

    Most certainly easy to believe. China is not that far off from DPRK anymore. Look at what they did during covid (welding people in their apartments, killing all pets, arresting people for curfew violations, etc). Look at their typical workday (14x6) and wage (a few $/day). How do think we get cheap products like $25 microwaves and $15 coffee makers. CCP wants a slave population, not citizens.

      • ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        142·
        1 year ago

        Either way I find it funny that the same anti westerners who say China is fair to its workers, are the same ones who always mention that my phone is made by slaves. Sometimes in the same discussion.

      • dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        72·
        1 year ago

        Bruh. Are you smoking crack?

        Your view of how COVID-19 mitigation worked is skewed by breathless, click-baiting media reports (known by most as “lies”) made by people who could not, at a very deep, very primal level, admit to even themselves that brown-skinned people outperformed white-skinned people by orders of magnitude and made up shit to placate their humiliation.

        What are you even talking about?

      • iopq@lemmy.worldEnglish
        53·
        1 year ago

        I was in China during the pandemic. In 2022 everyone got COVID. Literally everyone in every big city.

        So they should have opened up after omega became the dominant variant. No point in locking people down when they lost anyway.

        It was a good response in the beginning, but they doubled down on it for three years

          • iopq@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            They stopped tracking cases in December, so how do you know it’s one third?

            They literally told us to stay at home and not go to the hospital even if we have it

        • ttmrichter@lemmy.worldEnglish
          610·
          1 year ago

          The CPC […] is by no means a good government and the people in it are not good people at any level above the community cadre level […]

          They’re vile authoritarians […]

          Do you actually fucking READ before reacting you utter fuckwit?!

          Talking with Americans is like talking with ADHD-addled toddlers for fuck’s sake!

          • nixcamic@lemmy.worldEnglish
            7·
            1 year ago

            I mean

            A: you’re an asshole, even if you had a point.

            B: your whole argument is an appeal to your own authority and a dismissal of anyone who disagrees with you as an idiot.

            And C:

            You spent the whole comment praising China and dismissing criticisms in specific details. Then tacked a few vague complaints that noone would disagree with on in the end. This is a very common tactic used to make it look like you haven’t “taken sides”.