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Chinese propaganda is rampant on the fediverse

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  • artyomA artyom

    AKA "whataboutism".

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    wrote last edited by umbrella@lemmy.ml
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    whataboutism is a thought-terminating cliche.

    it ends up a very effective way of shutting down comparison between them.

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    • R realitista@lemmus.org

      The difference is that I don't get banned/censored on western instances for criticizing Trump or US military interventions.

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      wrote last edited by umbrella@lemmy.ml
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      criticizing trump or us military interventions is pretty much all i do on ml, grad, hexbear

      i eventually leave or get banned from the anarcho lib comms for doing that.

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        criticizing trump or us military interventions is pretty much all i do on ml, grad, hexbear

        i eventually leave or get banned from the anarcho lib comms for doing that.

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        realitista@lemmus.org
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        Well sure you can criticize Trump there. But try criticizing the CCCP, China, or Russia.

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        • R realitista@lemmus.org

          That is untrue. I never said it. And for the record I only believe in hitting military targets and those of politicians and military officials involved in the war.

          Also I think you are cherry picking. They have censored me more times than that. Maybe it was on my now defunct lemm.ee account.

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          braininabox@lemmy.ml
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          Ok. Anyone can easily click the link to verify that you're lying, so I'm not sure what you're trying to accomplish.

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          • B braininabox@lemmy.ml

            Ok. Anyone can easily click the link to verify that you're lying, so I'm not sure what you're trying to accomplish.

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            realitista@lemmus.org
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            Yes they can see I did not

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              whataboutism is a thought-terminating cliche.

              it ends up a very effective way of shutting down comparison between them.

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              The whole point is that there is no comparison necessary. It's nothing but a deflection.

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              • R realitista@lemmus.org

                Yes they can see I did not

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                So, again, I'm not sure what you're trying to accomplish by lying about this.

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                • davel@lemmy.mlD davel@lemmy.ml

                  What’s rampant is imperial core propaganda. You see the “Chinese propaganda” as “rampant” because you’re used to seeing only imperial core propaganda, which is how the internet looks on corporate media, including corporate social media.

                  Previously:

                  The first step is to understand the media, which Media Bias/Fact Check and the Ad Fontes Media* are never going to teach you. The only people who are taught it are those who get degrees in marketing, public relations, political science, history, and journalism; and even then only some of them.

                  The new post-Trump/“post-truth” media literacy curricula won’t teach it to you either, because it was paid for and crafted by the US military-industrial complex: New Media Literacy Standards Aim to Combat ‘Truth Decay’.
                  This week, the RAND Corporation released a new set of media literacy standards designed to support schools in this task.

                  The standards are part of RAND’s ongoing project on “truth decay”: a phenomenon that RAND researchers describe as “the diminishing role that facts, data, and analysis play in our political and civic discourse.”

                  None of it is a secret, though, and it can be learned.

                  • Noam Chomsky - The 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine
                  • Propaganda model
                  • Edward Bernays
                  • Walter Lippmann
                  • Council on Foreign Relations
                  • Powell Memorandum
                  • The Trilateral Commission’s report, The Crisis of Democracy

                  * I’ve criticized MBFC & Ad Fontes before:

                  • https://lemmy.ml/post/12705767/8913172
                  • https://lemmy.ml/post/13566156/9605612
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                  ah yes, corporate media such as... the BBC

                  truly yank brained

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                  • B braininabox@lemmy.ml

                    So, again, I'm not sure what you're trying to accomplish by lying about this.

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                    realitista@lemmus.org
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                    I don't know what you are trying to accomplish by lying about this.

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                    • R realitista@lemmus.org

                      I don't know what you are trying to accomplish by lying about this.

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                      braininabox@lemmy.ml
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                      Lol. "I know you are but what am I!"

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                      • R realitista@lemmus.org

                        Well sure you can criticize Trump there. But try criticizing the CCCP, China, or Russia.

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                        we have reservations about, and criticize them all the time.

                        what i don't really see being tolerated is insistent propaganda talking points or trolling, and even then most will talk to you if you are reasonable.

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                        • R realitista@lemmus.org

                          Well sure you can criticize Trump there. But try criticizing the CCCP, China, or Russia.

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                          braininabox@lemmy.ml
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                          I can and do

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                            we have reservations about, and criticize them all the time.

                            what i don't really see being tolerated is insistent propaganda talking points or trolling, and even then most will talk to you if you are reasonable.

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                            realitista@lemmus.org
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                            Insistent propaganda talking points and trolling are tolerated if they are from the Russian or China/CCP perspective. Honestly that's about all there is on their news or politics discussions.

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                            • artyomA artyom

                              The whole point is that there is no comparison necessary. It's nothing but a deflection.

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                              you are getting the deflection backwards. the comparison is very necessary when the problems and contradictions in the countries being smeared pale in comparison.

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                              • R realitista@lemmus.org

                                Insistent propaganda talking points and trolling are tolerated if they are from the Russian or China/CCP perspective. Honestly that's about all there is on their news or politics discussions.

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                                communists will mostly discuss communism and related

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                                • davel@lemmy.mlD davel@lemmy.ml

                                  Ultimately the problem is that the mods for the communities they frequently post to have allowed this to go on for years. They have to know by now what’s going on, and by doing nothing they tacitly endorse it.

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                                  wrote last edited by avidamoeba@lemmy.ca
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                                  I don't mind it too much. If the community itself can deal with ir by voting on the posts, it's a more democratic solution and it has a built-in consensus. Mods killing it makes life easier but it produces more quesrions among the community abt whether that was the best course of action. Kinda like how some people feel about being censored on .ml, no offence. Isn't that a dialectical relarionship of sorts, the effects of more vs less moderation?

                                  I guess it depends on the people's culture. If they come from a lib background, less moderation is more productive. If they're used to authority taking care of things instead of them having to do the work, then more moderation is better suited or else people would complain mods aren't doing their job.

                                  And speaking of moderation. OP got banned. 😄

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                                  • J jubilantjaguar@lemmy.world

                                    Ironically, the most active user on the current #2 China community, !china@sopuli.xyz, is an absolutely indefatigable anti-Chinese propagandist.

                                    This person, @Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.org posts multiple times per day, usually quite sensible and well-sourced articles, but always on the same downer subjects (repression, Uighurs, corruption and so on) and never anything that paints China (let alone its government) in the slightest positive light. Since nobody else in this community can match their posting stamina, the end result is a community that, to newcomers, looks like one rando's "I hate China" blog. Hardly surprising that it's not a very successful community.

                                    I've asked this user to consider dropping the tempo a bit, and been met with defensiveness. I complained in private to the mod, who is completely AWOL, and they didn't care. Oh well.

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                                    hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.org
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                                    never anything that paints China (let alone its government) in the slightest positive light

                                    Feel free to change that. Just use quite sensible and well-sourced articles.

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                                    • D dsn9@lemmy.ml

                                      Chinese propaganda is rampant on the fediverse. We need to discuss ways to combat this. One group- memes or something is wholly controlled by Chinese state actors. What do you think?

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                                      murmelade
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                                      I love these posts, they're always a treasure trove of accounts to block.

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                                      • T technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com

                                        Don't forget USAian propaganda. By far the most prevalent under that regime.

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                                        KryptonBlur
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                                        I tend to find Lemmy to be pretty good at being critical of the US

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                                          leftists* are rampant on the fediverse

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                                          Not all leftists are supportive of China, anarchists certainly aren't.

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