Ah yes, this is the democracy some people talk about
this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2025
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Authoritarians gonna authoritarian regardless of economic model.
You forgot to put quotes around democracy.
Don't be silly, democracy is only when private companies do all encompassing AI powered surveillance.
If you’ve left a comment on a YouTube video, a new website claims it might be able to find every comment you’ve ever left on any video you’ve ever watched. Then an AI can build a profile of the commenter and guess where you live, what languages you speak, and what your politics might be.
According to the developer, they’ve provided the tool to cops in Portugal, Belgium, and “other countries in Europe.” They told 404 Media that the website is meant for private investigators, journalists, and cops.
Don't Chinese private mega corporations do this too?
Chinese corporations do only what government allows them to do, any more and the CEO "takes an extended vacation".
Well yeah and the government really wants to pry into every aspect of your life. So you'll have the same shit
Now we only need to find a source of how many lgbtq+ fiction writers have been arrested in those same countries and we can proceed with the comparison.
This will eventually be the U.S. if we don’t stop the erosion. Right now they are going after trans, brown people. They will turn attention after to others.
"The Chinese government wants to promote traditional family values and liking danmei novels is seen as a factor in making women less willing to have children," Dr Ge explains.
Man, it's wild to see them go from one-child to this in a single generation.
Overcorrection in policy is not uncommon in authoritarian regimes. I'd imagine because policy carries the threat of imprisonment, not just guidance.
The machine needs meat
I generally want to have sex with my husband after reading erotica. You know, because it’s arousing. How did this not occur to them?
How many straight men do you know who have a sound grasp on women’s sexuality?
But .ml communities promise meChina has mote free speech than the West! How is this possible?
/s
Clearly, the BBC made it all up. Because it contradicts them. /s
Literally the newest top-level comment right now.
You don’t even have to be charged with anything before ICE grabs you off the street at throws you in a van in the US…
Which is true for China as well
Yes it's fucking horrible, I have the misfortune of living in the US but the same goes for China, North Korea, Russia and I could go on.
Yeah, unfortunately the US is becoming more and more like China in this regard.
And I assume you wish the US to keep doing that because China is doing that and it's clearly working?
Che Guevara, from Desalinas PFP, was also rather homophonic. I wouldn't make it a point of purity testing. People in the past did things according to their time (not saying its justified).
The .ml crew has enought to criticize today. Big part them being a different flavor of impiralism
Che Guevara, from Desalinas PFP, was also rather homophonic
Which other word did he sound like?
Wdym?
You accidentally said "homophonic" instead of "homophobic." A homophone is a word that is pronounced the same as another but with a different meaning, e.g. "weight" and "wait"
lol those were typos.
This isn’t a purity test. This is me making fun of the tankies on .ml
These authors are being accused of breaking China's pornography law for "producing and distributing obscene material". Writers who earn a profit could be jailed for more than 10 years.
The law targets "explicit descriptions of gay sex or other sexual perversions".
Jesus I thought there might have been some bullshit pretense, but apparently it's just straight-up illegal there.
China is not the West, haha. There's a reason we're suspicious of them.
I know nothing about Chinese child care, but reading that the government wishes for more child rearing, might it be that there are other systemic problems like no access to child care facilities, a culture that doesn't value women and people exhausted by long work days? I might have read that this is part of the root cause in korea. But sure, some gay novels might also be the reason for significant numbers. Overall the Chinese are somewhat known for pragmatic approaches, why chasing illusions in this case? The total number of readers and writers can't be that huge can't it?
This reflects a typical right wing approach to "increasing birthrates": Reinforcing """"traditional family values"""", vilifying defiance of gender norms and addressing anything but the root cause.
Overall the Chinese are somewhat known for pragmatic approaches, why chasing illusions in this case? The total number of readers and writers can't be that huge can't it?
Probably enlightened despotism giving way to regular despotism. Facing economic problems, and having shed all pretense of being socialist, the Chinese ruling class likely needs a scapegoat for the country's troubles.
Sounds plausible, crazy how that always works
Maybe still effects of the one-child-policy times. It's probably much easier to punish people for having too many children than it is to incentivise having more.
The background of the matter transcends conflicts over gender concepts. In recent years, many local governments have been unable to cover their expenses, resulting in a phenomenon known as "distant sea fishing" (远洋捕捞), which refers to "profit-driven law enforcement," aimed at plundering money from other places. These female writers are just a tiny fraction of the victims. There are also well-known entrepreneurs who have lost their lives due to such extortion.
Weird. I was told state atheism was the hallmark of human rights.