In this video, two people try to talk about China in comparison to the growing US internet censorship apparatus and can’t figure out what the difference is between China and the US’s policies.
Any reasonable or accurate point they make in this video is absolutely fucking obliterated by some brain-dead thought-terminating cliche.
Our Glorious Regulations, Their Authoritarian Censorship Regime.
That is 100% of the vibe of the video, for sure. There are some points in this video where her guest frames America and China as two extremes at either end and implies that there is a reasonable middle ground somewhere (Europe). Which is pretty funny. It was fun to hear him say, “Some of that is […] maybe positive in terms of […] encouraging more competition. [I]t’d be great if if there was European equivalents of a lot of these US services…” after outlining how China’s “Great Firewall” created space for domestic tech services to develop.
there’s a real failure to imagine governance that contends with the internet and privacy responsibly.