Jk, that shit happens, but when it does it becomes massive news stories instead of being suppressed, and it is allowed to have ripple effects across politics and society instead of the government imprisoning anyone who mentions abuses.
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kingshrubb@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Doesn’t the United States do a similar thing in weaponizing the police against its own citizens? U.S. police violence against protesters, police killings of black and brown people, police killing of mentally ill people. Using military surplus weapons from Iraq and war tactics against its own citizens (LRAD weapons, mass arrests, tear gas).(Kent State Shooting, Civil Rights Movement, George Floyd protests, Occupy Wall Street, Palestine protests).
Godric@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
but when it does it becomes massive news stories instead of being suppressed, and it is allowed to have ripple effects across politics and society instead of the government imprisoning anyone who mentions abuses.
To be fair, someone else replied to mention the Tulsa Race Massacre… Something that I (and every American I’ve spoken to about it) did not know existed prior to seeing the Watchmen TV series.
__nobodynowhere@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
There is being ignorant and there is being censored. Information on the Tulsa race riot is freely available, information on the Tiananmen Square massacre is actively suppressed in China.
hark@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The information is freely available because you can do nothing about it. The student protests about israel were shut down. If it was deemed a greater threat, then even more violence would have been used.
kingshrubb@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
I’m watching the US government running interference for Israel and arresting students for being anti-genocide/ pro-Palestine. Legacy corporate media burying articles on Palestine and Israeli war crimes on US gov’t behalf. Legacy corporate media lying about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq as a pretense to invade and later laundering and resurrecting war criminal George W. Bush’s reputation after the war. Corporate media’s suppression of Biden’s senility while in office and now Jake Tapper is on a propaganda tour saying what everyone knew all along even though Democratic party insiders would straight up lie about it.
Not saying China good. Obviously what they did is awful. I’m saying the US is also not great.
gens@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Tulsa 1921
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Not even comparable. Scroll up to the top and read the report from the British Government and then tell me that they’re the same.
0x0@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Not yet.
napkin2020@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
So U.S. can keep doing so?
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Yeah but they don’t actively try to wipe it out of history and build a big firewall
blackris@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Not yet.
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
I’m not saying this like the US isn’t ranked 57th in terms of Freedom. I’m well aware of all the times the government has surpressed knowledge. But China is ranked lower at 178.
en.m.wikipedia.org/…/World_Press_Freedom_Index
Objection@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
When Kent State happened, surveys showed an overwhelming majority of Americans blamed the students for getting shot more than they blamed the guard for shooting them. There were all sorts of fake news stories going around on TV about how the protests were filled with outside agitators doing things like putting LSD in the water supply. It was only once the opportunity for a reaction was safely past that they said, “Oopsie, we made a mistake.” There have been many other cases where the government and media lied until it determined it was safe enough to tell the truth, including the justifications for several major wars.