• caboose2006@lemmy.world
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    I lived in china for 4 years and Winnie has Def never been outlawed. Chinese censorship is much more sophisticated than “hey, that’s illegal.” There’s not a list of pictures or memes or phrases that if you’re caught with you’ll get a visit from the police. No no no. There are hundreds of thousands of people monitoring social media for the latest “subversive” trends. When a new trend develops that content is blacklisted and just not allowed to be spread. You’ll send your friend a picture and it never shows up on their phone. There’s no indication on your end that it didn’t send or they didn’t get it. You can have this content on your phone, the CCP doesn’t care. They care about it spreading. And you’ll never get in trouble for trying to spread it because the system doesn’t allow it to spread.

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          Should openly fascist people be allowed to vote in your opinion? Just curious what peoples’ take on this is.

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            No, reactionaries should be rehabilitated to the best of society’s capabilities. Participation in society isn’t sacred, the purpose of democracy is to deliver the best results for the most amount of people. Reactionaries that wish to expel and murder minority groups should be treated as any other violent criminal, through rehabilitation if possible.

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            Should openly fascist people be allowed to vote [for government] in your opinion?

            Why should they? As in, materially, how does society benefit from that? How does the democratic decision-making tool become more useful from it? I consider democracy to be a decision-making process, so I don’t care for vague idealistic assertions like “every adult should have the right to vote” unless there’s a benefit from it. And allowing an explicitly anti-liberal, anti-democratic, bad-faith opportunist (and fascism is explicitly and openly all of those) to vote is harmful to the democratic process and increases the odds of it making a bad decision.

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      That happens to me on YouTube; the only way I can talk to some people is on rednote.

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      Can’t they use stuff like signal or simplex to communicate. How they going to decrypt the msg and the app simple x is open source. Until they are not seeing what app you have in the system it should not be a problem

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        Those apps are blocked. Your apps have to be unencrypted to be distributed in China. If you can get a VPN that works you can use them.