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Leaked files reveal how China is using AI to erase the history of the Tiananmen Square massacre (www.abc.net.au)

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[–] otterpop@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

When asking for the reforms you're talking about results in things like getting disappeared of course people are going to be underground about it. The human spirit isn't meant to be caged in the way that the CCP does (Or Western capitalism does for that matter), eventually resistance will build up to a breaking point I hope.

[–] FMT99@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

In my experience the human spirit can take a lot more than we think. I was talking to my kids the other day about the value of democracy and what is the point if nothing gets done and people still suffer. As you say we live in a democracy but one way or another our government has been captured by the mega wealthy basically forever. And we've seen recently how easy it is to undermine democratic principles when people feel angry or threatened. Many people in the "free" west have only a tangential grasp of how their democracy works in the first place, and only really care about it in as far as it benefits them (which, broad perception is, it currently doesn't)