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Documenting hate speech, conspiracy theories, apologia/revisionism, and general tankie behaviour across the fediverse. Memes are welcome!
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Also ft. A rare sighting of Arthur Besse aka cypherpunks, also .ml admin, who did the original censorship
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The alternate to the less popular rule 2 that encompasses banning anything remotely critical of any of their favorite dictators.
Yeah, months ago I posted an article from a Chinese research group, in a Chinese university, published by the CCP, about how 1 billion people live on less than 340 dollars a month, which, by Chinese standards, is poverty, and most of the rest of the population wasn't making much more. This didn't get me banned, but they deleted the post, under rule 2. Oops 1billion people were actually not pulled out of poverty according to China's own financial research.
Within a week of the article started hitting western news sources it all but vanished, in normal media, very suddenly, as the CCP suppressed it. So apple, and tree.
China's "no more poverty" claim is based on the UN global standard, which was then $3-per-person-per-day, thus $90-per-month. That standard was recently updated and for upper-middle–income countries it is now $8.40-per-day, thus $252-per-month, so their statement is still accurate. Whether using a global poverty threshold for a BRICS country makes sense is your decision.
Yeah, we should definitely use China's own standard for that metric, doesn't make sense to call something not poverty in a place that still considers it to be poverty, themselves.
As for .ml, why not make this claim and leave it, rather than delete? Eh, well... don't really care, I am here to laugh.
That must have happened with an alt account, because it wasn’t this one: https://sh.itjust.works/modlog?actionType=All&userId=16390800
This is a newsweek article that talks about the article that was scrubbed. It's newsweek, but they give all the information about the article. I can only find articles about it being scrubbed as apposed to the article I originally read. If you are interested in what I am talking about.
https://www.newsweek.com/china-article-censorship-1-billion-people-monthly-income-2000-yuan-poverty-1856031
It was, and one created from a different instance too