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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. 

https://archive.md/buuA6

Democracies can also ban porn. See: South Korea, India, Ukraine, Malaysia, Singapore, Mongolia, etc...

Its a conservatism issue.

Which is funny because I think most conservative and religious politicians are actually into gay sex.

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…

China is not the West, haha. There's a reason we're suspicious of them.

Man, it's wild to see them go from one-child to this in a single generation.

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?

What "broad restrictions" is NZ and Australia under?

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.

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.

Chinese child care is the adults going to work and the older generation (the grandparents) take care of the child.

Or sometimes my mother brought me to her workplace and I just sat there playing a video game on the portable dvd player thing with the games loaded on a dvd (or a cd, idk the difference) and with controllers attached to it. (She worked at an electronics store as a salesperson).

My parents were in an arranged marriage (the consensual type, I think, but there was high pressures to enter into a marriage), and they argue a lot.

When we first immigrated to the US, my maternal grandparents weren't part of the "immediate" family, so they weren't allowed on the immigration visa, my paternal side of the family (who are already in the US) didn't like the responsibility of taking care of us (unlike my maternal side of the family), so my older brother who was around age 13-15 at the time when we first arrived, had to pick me up from school, and he resented having this responsibility, my brother didn't really like me, we were frienemies (now, present day, actual enemies).

But eventually, like around 6th grade I just walked home by myself. Most of the time, the house was empty (other than my brother). I barely talked with my parents, never had real emotional connections with them.

Childcare in China isn't that different from the US. (Well... in the US, kids get like a small child credit in their parent's tax returns, and some food stamps, but that's about it) The lower class is really very similar regardless of country. We the lower class people have more in common with each other than we do with the rich that runs our respective countries.

(If you are confused at the "Older Brother" part, my mother "illegally" gave birth to me. Then they sterilized her to make sure she can't violate the one child policy again. I was literally not even supposed to be born.)