DarkThoughts

While flawed, the US is still a democracy. China is an authoritarian regime with basically 0 privacy rights, concentration camps, slave labor, dark sites for dissidents, and mass surveillance that goes far beyond anything the West has to offer. They basically brutally massacred their own student democracy movement at the Tiananmen Square protests.

Moreover, I feel like the impact of Chinese surveillance is personally less on me than American (companies). But I’ll concede that this is subjective

What impact had PRISM on you personally?

That’s not an ad hominem. lol

Yeah but you’re also on a Tankie instance, so that’s not too surprising to hear.

Yes? You either don’t know a whole lot about China or are arguing in bad faith if you truly believe the US to be as bad or even worse.

I’m amazed that people apparently trust not just sensitive Chinese hardware, such as mobile phones, but even whole Chinese operating systems.

Unfortunately that’s the type of shit where publicly shaming on Twatter is likely a more effective option.

They had some issues with their downloader in the past but that thing has been canned a long time ago. It’s not a great site but it isn’t malware.

I’m sure China is going to get right on it!

Unfortunately so.

Still using the fat oversized buttons. No thanks.

Interesting. Could be A/B testing, or based on the country. For me it has been gone ever since they changed the design of it a while ago.

I know what you meant, but until recently at the very top you had an option to report for “spam / unwanted advertisement” (or something along those words). Now you can’t really report those bots in the first place, because there’s no fitting category for it.

Possibly, or a scam, or worse. I don’t actually follow the links through as I don’t want to potentially want to visit something that has malicious code.

You’re a good example about the media literacy of people nowadays.

That’s usually about this Indian (or Pakistani?) guy I think about investments. I’ve even seen that one on Reddit.

They likely downvote the original comments with their bots to bury it.

I believe they use other bot accounts to actively downvote the original comment while upvoting theirs, so that it is purposefully buried.

If you click on the profile page there’s usually some link in them. Unfortunately YT removed the ability to report spam comments recently. lol

Edit: That’s for YT bots. I don’t know what platform this is but I’d assume it is probably the same there.