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  • Fried_out_Kombi@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    One of my roommates in undergrad was from China, and whenever he went back to China to visit his family, we literally couldn’t contact him because all the messaging apps/services we use are blocked in China.

    Another family friend of mine lived and taught in Macau as a professor for a while, and he explained how he had to get a VPN just to access the regular internet.

    Any government that locks down access like that is not one worthy of admiration. It’s insane that people defend the CCP.

    • Redhotkurt@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      It’s insane that people defend the CCP.

      They’re already here, in this thread. Guess what instance they’re from.

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      1 year ago

      It’s insane that people defend the CCP.

      You have to understand that there are a lot of people that genuinely like the CCP because under them, there are a lot of people that went from the likes of farmers and factory workers to a serious middle class, with all the improvements to the quality of life that entails. You’d be surprised what people are willing to forgive in exchange for this.

      The CCP monitoring program also extends far beyond the country borders as well, and while they would not dare do an extraordinary rendition for pissing off the CCP, many expats still have family within Chinese borders that are completely fair game for the CCP to do as they please with. So many expats won’t risk it. The CCP are already known for fucking with families just because some of its members have expatriated. And they don’t have a limit to how far they’ll go. Concentration camps are nothing new there.

    • WtfEvenIsExistence1️@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      Its quite insane actually. I was the second child my mother gave birth to during the one child policy. They would’ve tried to force her to get an abortion if they knew. But she hid the pregnancy until she gave birth to me. They couldn’t justify killing a child that has already been born, so I lived, but they still made my parents pay tens of thousands of RMB (¥) to get legal documents like birth certificates.

      My mother still have pro-ccp views. Like wtf. But everytime she start spewing shit like that, I’ll just tell her “If you support the communist party, do you agree that I shouldn’t have been born?” That usually shut her up.

      Also, this community has one of those “Marxist-Leninist” as a moderator so I’ll make an archive of this.