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0 pointsiforgotpassword7y ago0 comments

Really, does HN deserve that kind of idiotic post?

You can walk around China an say "democracy" all day. You think they don't report on eg elections in the US on TV there? People in China complain about the government and laws all day.

There is a lot wrong with China that they deserve to be called out for, but what's your goal with a post like that? Show the world that you don't have a clue about anything besides tech? It boggles my mind how many people happily buy any FUD that helps them painting a simple black and white image of the world just so they can feel good about their own country.

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07d0467y ago

True. It would be a more accurate post if it listed "having a watch set to the wrong time zone" instead (mentioned in the HRW report).

It is unfortunate that there is a lot of misinformation about China out there. Winnie the Pooh isn't banned. The social credit system apparently isn't like how it's commonly reported in the West. But I also chafe at the suggestion that China is little worse than the US on these points. There are few countries on earth that have more control over their population and shape the way they think than China.

https://www.hrw.org/report/2018/09/09/eradicating-ideologica...

outworlder7y ago

> Really, does HN deserve that kind of idiotic post?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: specifically:

> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

okatsu7y ago

I don't know about the democracy part but he also mentioned religion and their ethnic cleansing of Muslims seems pretty bad from what I've read.

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