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People when talking about EU banning US social media and fostering domestically-based networks: hell yeah 😎😎😎

When China does it: evil commies! Brainwashed! Chinese people are too stupid to see they're being manipulated!

correct - if they didn't do this they would've left themselves open to western tech companies basically monopolizing digital infrastructure with little recourse for chinese tech firms to stand on their own feet.

much less the fact that the western tech firms are 24 government agencies wearing a layer of VC money

If it's cool with everyone here, I'm just going to spend the next eight hours getting extremely mad with people on the Internet over my refusal to watch a 40 minute video essay on YouTube, or read literally anything.

Say anything positive or neutral about the country of China and you'll quickly discover that liberals also love to plug their ears and shout "fake news".

This is actually a really great video! The Chinese social media memes about trump had me laughing. Chinese Netizens are hilarious.

Damm you russian spies controlling social media and influencing the result of our election.

So let's regulate this shitty space controlled by big corporations? ... MY FREEZE PEACH!!!!!

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Oh shit this blew up, lol. Haven't seen the video, but protectionism is necessary if you want to develop your own industry and not have it undermined by a country that has hegemonic control over said industry, so control on the internet is a good thing. Same with not allowing said hostile foreign actors to sow dissent unrestricted.