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this post was submitted on 22 Jul 2025
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I'm mostly on board with this, but censorship is a dangerous road to go down. Where does it stop?
All of those state sponsored channels have other distribution methods available. They're simply not getting access to youtube's megaphone now
Yes only the US should get access to that
It stops when they've removed all videos that are anti-USA
how do you define what anti-USA is?
Videos that speak ill of the US.
I guess it was getting in the way of american propaganda.
Israeli.
Now do all the MAGA and Zionist shit
it's the same thing, no?
I wish, but especially the Zionist shit is so deeply anchored in mainstream politics that they really don’t need any foreign influence.
Did they get rid of Shapiro & Peterson et al?
Oh would you look at who finally grew a fucking spine.
Doubt it. Trump reversed course on Putin and China, so the bootlickers in charge lick the other way now.
Only took 'em at least a year and multiple fucked elections. Oh wonder.
Closer to a decade, but yes
Russia intelligence services have been producing conspiracy theory propaganda from even before the Communist era. Adolf Hitler was radicalized in 1909 to hate Jews by "The protocols of the Elders of Zion". That's right, he killed 6 million Jews because he bought into Russian bullshit.
Source? Hitler was a propaganda writer himself..
My brother in Christ I assume you have a phone in your hand, stop letting random people further educate you online and do your own goddamn research and make a good research not from bullshit website websites
Oh does that Include that one guys channel that was being spread around here, reddit, and Instagram of him showing his sweet apartment and how cool and modern Chinese life was, and started making the social media rounds about a month Into trunps term?
Because that shit was obvious propaganda
I've came across too many .ml posts about praising North Korea, China and Russia. Had to block the whole instance.
Even !memes@lemmy.ml was full of this shit, but the mods didn't do anything to prevent it (but instead removed comments like "NK is a dictatorship")
Lemmy dot marxist-leninist created as a communist safe-space for users leaving reddit has propaganda about communist countries and they don't moderate it away, I'm shocked.
That's why Lemmy as a whole was originally created in fact.
but China is doing so well! they're certainty winning! look at all their free public transit, solar panel farms, large buildings, and many jobs!
they have so many jobs they're literally giving them away for free! they even give these people places to live with food and everything. China even brings their whole family with them so they can all be happy and prosperous together.
it's so much better to live in China than in the US. you'll never leave China once you go there!
There are things China does right.
Like retirement age of 55. Like nationalising billionaires when they get too big.
It also does a shitton of things wrong, but credit when credit is due.
Absolutely. I am not the person you replied to but I have no problems admitting that China or Russia can be better than the West in some aspects, for example what you said. Likewise I have no problems saying that the West is flawed and that capitalism is killing people while billionaires rent Venice for a wedding party, in fact, I am the first opponent of that.
What I can't stand is people claiming that North Korea is not a dictatorship, China is democratic and Russia, poor them, was forced into invading other countries.
What I can’t stand is people claiming that North Korea is not a dictatorship, China is democratic and Russia, poor them, was forced into invading other countries
I signed on .ml because that was the second most popular instance at that time; there are so many people in .ml enamoured with USSR, whitewashing it, that I tend to skip local posts because it's not worth it. They behave like people brainwashed by USA propaganda but with different polarization.
Sometimes I think they might be CIA shills/bots created to discourage people from socialist movements.
Btw - China does have local elections where people pick their local representative. So people can pick a person, but not the ideology - that is mandated from the high. It's not exactly what I would call democratic, but hey, the more you know
I don't remember it being bad before lemmygrad got defederated from most instances. Plain ml used to just be the demonstration instance while lemmygrad was the ideological one. But once they got blocked from a lot of the Lemmyverse more and more .ml accounts are being associated with weird tankie stuff.
Awesome, isn't it?
Turns out that if the government is controlling the narrative by threatening, harassing or jailing whoever dares go against it, people will only read about the good things!
Wouldn't it be great if the US did the same thing? Could we all become a happy place like China if we tried a bit harder to make our country.... I dunno... great again?
No no no. You are allowed to suck the cock of communist regimes only
Wouldn’t it be great if the US did the same thing?
But... You do. Example - no US invader can be charged with crimes against humanity, as the standing US policy is to then invade Hague. Another example - operation Gladio. Or even fucking TikTok from recent years that bent the knee and started spewing american R/Trump propaganda after last election is USA
Well, just a couple of millions more to go then.
I wish youtube also wipes out thousands of propaganda channels linked to other countries.
What about the "cleaning haul" channels?... Ooh today we're gonna clean the windows. Places camera looking from below. yada yada yada...
State sponsored terrorism vs poor women trying to make some extra money... What the fuck is wrong with you.
What kind of idiot brings a kilo to a mega fight?
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