TheCaconym [any]

The real answer is it is, among other things, an economic tool

The alternative was having the big US techs invade china economically, along with the mass propaganda from capitalist entities (chief among them the US, always pursuing efforts to destabilize China) that would have followed

You don’t speak to actual Chinese citizens often, do you ? basically all young people there have VPNs, and nobody cares. Like, at all

We’re just terminally online and upvote each other

Though I’ll admit those stats here are a bit suspicious

1989 Tiananmin Square Massacre

Reality is calling