Exactly, China filters their Internet. Just like Facebook and Twitter do. Instead of being at the whims of two rich individuals it’s at the whim of the government.

Not that one is better than the other, but US users experience the same (from a technical standpoint, not ideologically) kind of filtering but they’re not told that it is the great Zuck firewall or the great Elon firewall even though it is used in the same way to filter topics and ideas that the owner doesn’t like.

The US doesn’t really block VPNs or many websites. I can access Baidu and QQ stuff in the US without a VPN. My parents regularly use WeChat here in the US without a VPN. In contrast, in China you can’t access a lot of western sites like Facebook/Twitter/Wikipedia, and, intermittently, Reddit, gets blocked without a VPN, and VPNs are much more difficult to obtain and use in China compared to the US.

As for Facebook/Twitter censorship, that’s on the people. They could easily switch to alternative platforms without using any VPNs but they just choose not to.

Honestly my mom is so weird:

Like, when I was a kid, she’ll cuddle with me, encourage me to sleep in their bed, and like show affection, and she had moments when she was so wholesome and lovely. She frequently tells me how much she loves me, how smart she supposely thought of me.

But also, often times like… she can easily flip and like yell at me for small mistakes and scold me and belittle me… and I’d cry…

My brain is so fucking confused… lol… what the fuck was that?

Why was I shown love, then she flips on a different mask and becomes a different person like an hour later?

Bipolar?

Idk I have a truma bond to her, so confusing.

As for dad… idk he is just like chilling and doesn’t really show either affection much but neither yells much either… like apathetic…

But anyways, if I ever have children, I’ll do the affection thing, but I’ll make sure I control my emotions and never show anger directed towards my children. I will never make my children feel scared like the way I felt when mom always did to me. Never again.

Different. Iran’s proposal would, if enacted, literally makes communications to the outside world impossible, since they are literally disconnecting the internet from the outside. It’s more like North Korea. In constrast, VPNs are still a thing in China… for now at least. Not every western site gets blocked. There’s a Chinese lemmy instance btw. Information flows in and out of China all the time.

China too.

I’m trapped inbetween two empires that hates me with no place to call “home”

1917 the movie feels very anti-war imo

I support the woman’s choice to have a child or not, without government interference either way (eg: Forced Abortions or Forced Births).

I also support paper abortions.

How an authoritarian government can counter this:

Step 1: Make it illegal to use such devices without a license.
Step 2: Refuse to issue radio licenses except to maybe law enforcement and high ranking governmwnt officials
Step 3: Triangulate “unauthorized users”
Step 4: Mass arrests

I write poetry in my free time. (I sometimes post them on here !originalpoetry@literature.cafe

I’m working on my memoir that includes my experience growing up as a child immigrant in the US (now naturalized btw)

I read about history stuff, Wong Kim Ark and I know I’m not alone. History is filled with injustice, and we are living in the history books, and I hold on to the hope justice prevails, just as with many times before, thing have improved. I hope that it will be the same for the future.

I comment on Lemmy to vent.

FUCK ICE btw, unconstitutional pieces of shit.

I’m a Citizen so I dare to say:

FUCK ICE. I HOPE Y’ALL GET PROSECUTED AND GO TO JAIL FOREVER and better yet: I hope for y’all to [redacted], and that We the People will [redacted] you all.

(It’s not “threatening violence” if I didn’t actually type those words 😏)

Thank you for this insight, I’m SOOO glad that my parents are tech-illiterate. Can you imagine how fucked if mom worked in actual IT? Oh fuck, all the porn sites¹… 😭 (very conservative household, “porn = bad”, and “if you touch your [penis] too much, you’ll lose the ability to have children”, wtf mom? For context: my family is from China and porn is literally illegal there)

¹I don’t really watch anymore… depression resulting from decades of household infighting

Actually I have no clue how Pomemom works and no clue what it is besides the fact that it’s some Anime / Japanese video game… probably from Nintendo I guess.

Never played/watched it, not that I remember, but I did see a lot of Pikachu and that’s all I know, it’s kinda like… the Statue of Liberty that everyone knows when they think of the US (ironic in current administration tho), Pikachu is the thing I think of when I hear “Japanese Card Game played by kids all around the world”, well, the ohter being YuGiOh, but I think that’s more like a teen thing, but I don’t remember any of that either… other than the fact that I think I used to have them with my abusive older brother.

I’m Gen Z btw.

I learned of Xiangqi (Chinese Chess) when I was like 5-7 and then the International/Western Chess at age 8 when I came to the US (I mean China probably has it too, but I was too young and it’s a higher barrier to entry compared to the domestic chess), and then I think I went some random park in NYC thing and saw the Japanese Chess, I guess its some Japanese American cultural event thing? Idk don’t quite remember.

So I think everyone knows a variant of Chess at least, so that comment has a point tbh.

Edit: Actually thank you for this comment, helped me remember a memory. I remember the first Western Chess set I had (shared with my older brother, since we had no one else to play with since we just arrived in the country), we got it off some local store on 86th Street in Brooklyn, NYC (USA). I was this managetic thing, like the pieces stuck to the board and the board closes by folding in half, then you can store the pieces inside and it folds up, very convienient for travel. It also had Checkers Pieces in it. Also backgamon, which we never knew how to play. (Didn’t even have internet when we first got off the plane and then never bothered to learn it later on) It’s a 3 in 1 set… I think it was like $10.99 or something and it was 2010.

So nostalgic… but that chess board is broken already… oppsie, I tend to break things… the magnet thing eventually fell from the pieces (like the glue holding it together failed), pieces went missing, and by 4 years later when we moved to Philly, we never played again (a lot of family violence, like physical fighting at home, mom was so worried about CPS being called on us fighting, since we were both minors at home alone… well sometimes, not all the time, he was 5 years older than me and he always wins and I get hurt so much, both physically and emotionally, I can’t even fight much, I just kinda try to block the hits), and now the entire chess set is gone… I think I got mad and three it away, since we didn’t even play anymore, so much family conflicts that it felt kinda “tainted”.

Not really rebel, more like, say, the kid is LGBT, or maybe is forbidden to talk to someone because they are of a different race or social class, or its an authoritarian regime and they’re trying to find out what is really going on outside their country’s borders.

I don’t think that would be an entire story, more like a subplot of a bigger story… like maybe flashback scenes of a character’s “origin story”, of how they found out their parents are supporters of an oppressive totalitarian regime, and they’re like trying to flee, or something…

It’s functionally impossible for a person to know the outcome of a game from the first move.

Hans Niemann twitches his cheeks

“You’ve already been defeated”

Idk, I was just wondering like… what if my parents had worked in the NSA, like they could probably pull up my search history.

Cuz they like to cross boundaries like that.

Bro misspelled National Socialist

TIL that being against CCP is Sinophobia… 🤦‍♂️

lemmy.world admins doesn’t like comments that will get the CIA to raid their homes, if that’s what you’re asking.

(cuz comments that are deemed by governments to be “advocating violence” is gonna catch their line of fire and they’ll pull a Kim Dotcom raid)

“Screen are bad and you’ll become blind!”

-said mom who now scrolls WeChat all the time

Ay yo why the fuck is the Taliban in America?

Fediverse Shenanigans v2: Electric Boogaloo

(Remember that other user that spammed 20 posts within 5 hours a while ago? Here we go again!)