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Yeah, the fact that any appearance of US military assets requires Pentagon to approve the script means that Hollwood is unable to record a movie depicting modern US millitary in any critical or non-heroic manner.
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China has mechanisms to change laws but they have to be routed through the proper channels.
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There is no "liberal censorship", unless you can point me to an instance where a bunch of liberals imprisoned someone for offending them.
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China appears to have chosen safety over freedom. The outcome is horrendous for minorities (Uighur etc), but for the majority?
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Soon enough of the "vast majority" will probably try to ban "HTTPS for everything" because of the "implications" (read as: additional CO2 footprint or something like that)
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The world outside HN is quite different
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Isn't myopia beneficial? When eye gets adapted to screens, books maybe it's bettter? I can see every single pixel on screens and it's very useful in daily life.
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I think it is not too difficult to refrain from being involved in politics or sensitive issues
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As for the values of the CCP, consider them like the Constitution in the US or the values of the "founding fathers". People don't get to change those either in any direct democratic way (but through a slow, ideological and legal process).
Besides, 1 party vs 2 parties alternating seems hardly much of a difference...
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Intentionally or not, I believe not talking about politics is politics, because not talking about something strengthens whatever the status quo - good or bad - at that time is.
That's extremist talk.
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Having been here for about four years, I can't agree to your statement about a "small minority" acting as "censors". Rather, the community as a whole seems to be very much in agreement as to what constitutes valid topics for discussion, and what types of behaviour are considered unwanted.
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Imagine if humans weren't born with biological mouths, instead synthetic mouths were invented and sold by a company, allowing people to speak. We wouldn't accept the company installing a blacklist of words or phrases to stop people from saying them.
But we already have that in European countries.
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Democracy needs provable facts to work
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China [..] where you would just voice your discontent and let the 'technocratic' 'leadership' figure out a solution.
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With advertising, we can enjoy many services free of charge.
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Markets are the worst way to determine any value [..] Nevertheless we haven't yet found a better way of estimating the value of things.
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When meritocrats and technocrats fail to seize power, extinction ensues.
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I really love how the class names of the various warships are, lets say, less than subtle. Something of a self referential reminder that in war, one must accept that you're always the villain of someone's story, and war is never pretty.
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there is only room for 1% of the people, in the top 1%
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My kids are obsessed. Literally everything they say to me starts with "Daddy, on minecraft, ...." It's all they talk about, including with each other. They even act it out in playtime. Although as someone who has never played I basically understand nothing they are telling me.
It seems pretty creative tho, and they seem to be learning a lot from it, so not too bothered.