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• outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  We’re all down to shit on new-deal-capitalism-with-chinese-characteristics, but you realize america’s had this for decades?

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• tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  They are just trying to be like the CCP, their heroes.

  old.reddit.com/r/ChineseLanguage/…/i8dcxjz/

  Well, there is a type of censorship I guess. Some apps don’t allow people to post bad words like 卧槽，and so on. So people usually abbreviate the bad words to the first letter of each pinyin. So 卧槽 becomes “wc”.

  This isn’t just for bad words tho, there’s many online slangs like xswl which means 笑死我了, and many more.

  quoteinvestigator.com/2021/07/12/censor/

  The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

  — John Gilmore, founder, EFF

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• Ferrous@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  So, what are the facts relating to China’s Social Credit System (SoCS)? First, a system does exist, but it is very different from what is imagined by many critics outside China. The biggest disconnect is around the notion of scores. Some commentators seem to imagine that a magic algorithm draws from AI cameras and internet surveillance all over the country to calculate a score that determines everyone’s place in society. In reality, the SoCS is not the techno-dystopian nightmare we fear: it is lowly digitalized, highly fragmented, and primarily focuses on businesses. Most importantly, such a score simply does not exist.

  merics.org/…/chinas-social-credit-score-untanglin…

  Classic lib move: dunking on nonexistent “ebil ccp” systems that started off as rumors mere days after the west decided it would clamp down on any semblance of internet freedom - upon a backdrop of rapidly burgeoning fascism and concentration camps. The US State Department has effortlessly oriented you.

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  • Machinist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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    • Ferrous@lemmy.ml ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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      • Machinist@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yup, the United States government sucks. However, the Chinese government also sucks.

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      • Peter_Arbeitslos@feddit.org ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Hello Ferrous, I would like to discuss this topic with you. However, I am not entirely sure if you are human. Could you please solve this captcha for me?

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• captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Are they going to implement Reddit-style karma?

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  • moseschrute@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Idk if something has changed but I think this is a baseless claim.

    If it’s just visual gamification…we’ve sort of already come out against that, since we discourage karma-seeking by not displaying user’s comment and post score totals.

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    This is 3 years old, but I can’t find anything newer (mostly looking at GitHub) suggesting Lemmy devs have any intention of adding karma

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    • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yeah I pretty much know that, and consider the lack of a karma score a feature not a bug of Lemmy. It’s just the obvious joke to crack on the subject of a social credit score on the fediverse.

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