• DSN9@lemmy.ml
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    11 days ago

    I see the Chinese propagandist have made their way over. Welcome welcome. Am I correct that reporters without borders ranks China dead last on freedom of the press? I.e. literally nothing coming from this country, statistics et all can be trusted.

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    “The People’s Republic of China (PRC) is the world’s largest prison for journalists, and its regime conducts a campaign of repression against journalism and the right to information worldwide.”

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    China ranks 178/180 on press freedoms. Higher number is not better. The only two places with less press freedoms are… Eritrea and… North Korea.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Press_Freedom_Index

    https://rsf.org/en/index

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      Ah, the same Reporters Without Borders gaslighting the world about journalist deaths in Gaza?

      You know how it’s frustrating when far right reactionaries roll up in lib spaces on reddit spewing propaganda the sources of which they haven’t investigated critically? That’s you. You’re doing that here. Please stop.

      • literal straight facts presented in OP
      • user arrives and starts speaking of foreign propagandists arriving
      • without missing a beat, same user starts repeating blatant propaganda that doesn’t even address facts stated in OP but amounts to “bad country no freedoms!”

      It never fails, if you post something positive about any of the countries on the “bad-guy” list of enemies of the US, you’ll get these pathetic fed bots and/or dronies swarming in, whinging and bleating and stinking up the thread with US state department talking points, western state funded media links, or other such obvious propaganda. It’s tiresome and embarrassing to watch.

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      china, being a dictatorship of the proletariat and having an actually-working participatory democratic process, has its press in the hands of the people. western countries, being dictatorships of the bourgeoisie, have their press in the hands of a few billionaires, and somehow according to shitlibs that makes it “free and fair” lmfao

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      11 days ago

      “china ranked a senseless brutal dictatorship according to their enemies”. nice try.

      your so called land of the free has the largest prison population in the planet period.

      you guys could use arresting some of your fascistic “journalists” and politicians peddling genocide on so called “dictatorships” you know nothing about abroad. maybe then you can have affordable housing.

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      lmfao a western-backed “freedom index” is not a substitution for media literacy, nor does it excuse you from providing literally any material evidence to support your argument.

      Also, do you want to explain why Israel is ranked at 112; 50 places above Venezuela and Palestine; and why Saudi fuckin Arabia is next on the list after VZ and PA? Seems to me like this “freedom index” doesn’t correlate very well with democracy or human rights, much less evidence-based journalism or state transparency.