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China’s firewall plays a crucial role in shaping the country’s digital landscape, preventing foreign intervention, and maintaining national security. While often criticized in the West, the firewall provides China with the ability to control information flow, shield its population from foreign influence, and protect domestic media.
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“You’ve got to vet your sources and protect yourself, and this feller looks a little too friendly with them chinese for my liking”
You are exactly the kind of fear-driven peasant brain that would crush village women between rocks because learning to read is clearly witchcraft. You can’t prove it, but it just feels scary somehow, you know?
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Can you give me an example of a source that has proved their trustworthiness? Perhaps some major newspapers that have spent the last two years lying in support of a genocide?
Bro, this is clearly about more than just ethics in journalism or whatever for you. You saw a guy go on a cruise, make some videos about politics (in our current time, no less) and decided, with no evidence, that he is an agent of the CPC, and that anyone who doesnt see that must just not be as saavy as you. This is some 1960s level white paranoia that you’re rationalizing behind a thin screen of “I’m just practicing media scrutiny”.
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Someone with literal 0 credibility is still more credible than western media outlets, due to their negative credibility.
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Why should I believe your claim that they are being funded by China? I’m sorry but I reviewed you as a source and determined you to be untrustworthy.
Please keep going, this is hilarious
What? No not at all, that makes no actual sense.
The western media having negative credibility is a good reason for China to do nothing at all. Let the west ruin itself with little effort on their part.
You have to tell yourself this is what I’m saying because even a cursory examination of your own feelings and motives would show your actual position ("this nobody is clearly a chinese spy, do not believe their lies, why does nobody else understand the very specifically chinese danger here) to be one based in imperial fearmongering. I fully expect you to be reporting neighbors to ICE within a couple years at this rate. Like I said, this is clearly about more than media literacy for you: it’s about China.
I notice you still haven’t been able to name a single reputable news source
A couple of years? This lib is going to be so scratched by being called out for their racism here, they’ll be calling ICE within the week.
You don’t need a reputation to present verifiable facts, try watching the video
Nah you just sound sinophobic tbh. I doubt you apply this scrutiny to Western countries.
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And yet you still believe the propaganda of your own country
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lmao they deleted their account
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Sounds like you might be sniffing dog farts for enjoyment. I’m just suggesting the possibility though, I don’t know any more than anyone else on that topic.
that’s obvious
They’re talking about the propaganda from your own country
I had a youtube account for decades before I started posting anything to it, and guess what: All I post are communist memes!
GASP
My GOD! That can only mean… I’m a Chinese agent holy shit!
You should be more ashamed of yourself, you’re a perfect representative of the average american
Lol right, gotta protect yourself from the wrongthink by ignoring all evidence that disagrees with you
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Tell me why the New York Times is a trustworthy source.
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Then why don’t we see you in the comment sections of the posts for articles about the new york times applying the exact same methodology you’ve been applying here?
If anything everyone should take what you, a one month old account, that sprang out of nowhere, with a whole mountain of salt grains for any assertion you’ve put out.
Then name one source you trust and why
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It’s not a “source”
It’s a YouTube video. An opinion. You determine whether that opinion is trustworthy or not by watching the video and seeing if the conclussions he puts forward make sense to you.
Or you can just ignore it and say it isn’t true because it’s not pre approved by the Cia.
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Lmao did you vet all of these comments before reading them too? What if one of them persuaded you?! OMG YOU MIGHT ALREADY BE COMPROMISED
Of course I could be persuaded to believe in things that aren’t true
I used to believe the United States was a good country
Uno reverse, you walking projector
Also projection. You’re so up your own ass you’ve become an small and dense enough object to tear through the fabric of space and become a blackhole of being an ignorant little shit
Your entire worldview is that of a self-contained circulating system of raw sewage. There’s literally zero reason to take anything you say with anything but negative credibility and seriousness.
Watch the video and find out, dumbass
Cupcake here didn’t vet a single thing. You looked at a subscriber count and the title of the video. Please fuck off forever
Why is it untrust worthy?
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You haven’t explained to me why you don’t trust them, and you haven’t actually dismissed any of the video’s ideas or claims.
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You should watch it. They list all their sources in the video description. If your position is as strong as it is, then it should be able to stand up against this information, and you’ll walk away unbroken. You are literally plugging your ears for no reason. The fact that you won’t watch it only shows me that you know deep down your position doesn’t stand up against critique and fact. If it does, then watch it, tell us about all the things that are incorrect. Review the sources (I’ve copied them for you because I think you’re afraid to look at the video page) and tell us what is propaganda and what is fact, since you are such a highly attuned detector of such things.
Sources:
Meta censorship:
https://www.hrw.org/report/2023/12/21/metas-broken-promises/systemic-censorship-palestine-content-instagram-and
Twitter censorship:
https://qz.com/elon-musk-x-twitter-transparency-brazil-turkey-tesla-1851656960
Google leaves China:
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/01/why-google-quit-china-and-why-its-heading-back/424482/
Foreign intervention:
https://apnews.com/article/technology-cuba-united-states-government-904a9a6a1bcd46cebfc14bea2ee30fdf
https://www.reuters.com/article/technology/twitter-delays-down-time-to-aid-iranian-protesters-idUSTRE55F495/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/us-secretly-backed-syrian-opposition-groups-cables-released-by-wikileaks-show/2011/04/14/AF1p9hwD_story.html
Ukraine:
https://jacobin.com/2022/02/maidan-protests-neo-nazis-russia-nato-crimea
Romania:
https://www.leefang.com/p/ngos-backing-judicial-coup-in-romania
Georgia:
https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1795638929837961462
https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1794056909672362191
https://x.com/sopjap/status/1886351945083785418
Regime Change:
https://global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202205/08/WS6277847fa310fd2b29e5b4c2.html
American free speech censorship:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/15/mahmoud-khalil-free-speech-civil-liberties
Billionaires owning the news:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/katevinton/2016/06/01/these-15-billionaires-own-americas-news-media-companies/
https://debatingmatters.com/topic/billionaires-owning-media-companies-is-bad-for-democracy/
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/may/03/billionaires-extra-power-media-ownership-elon-musk
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/mar/10/washington-post-ruth-marcus-resigns
Censorship on X
https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/4/24235213/x-brazil-suppression-speech-elon-musk-india-turkey
https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-x-influence-uk-us-politics-48cc1870cbdb5df03829f5ab303b579d
https://time.com/6229960/twitter-bans-accounts-elon-musk-impersonators/
Deaths as a result from US
https://www.globalresearch.ca/u-s-regime-has-killed-20-30-million-people-since-world-war-ii/5633111
Japan
https://foreignpolicy.com/2005/08/01/think-again-japanese-textbooks/
https://www.reuters.com/article/world/japans-yasukuni-shrine-a-symbol-of-haunting-wartime-legacy-idUSKCN25003Z/
US is not a democracy
https://www.princeton.edu/~mgilens/Gilens homepage materials/Inequality and Democratic Resp/Gilens 2005
https://act.represent.us/sign/the-problem-tmp
https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746
UK arrests for zoom call
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/19/protest-democracy-labour-tories-laws
China whole process people’s democracy”
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202403/1308491.shtml
Chinese democratic perception
https://www.allianceofdemocracies.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/DPI-2024.pdf
Chinese satisfaction with their government
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/07/long-term-survey-reveals-chinese-government-satisfaction/
Chinese polling of its people
https://bigdatachina.csis.org/governance-by-data-how-chinas-party-state-keeps-its-pulse-on-the-people/
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https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1869971055206658177
https://www.bernama.com/en/news.php?id=2374971
https://english.news.cn/20241221/3c3b96bcf7bd43e7b417ef4fd123e0f2/c.html
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/14/16/9986
State department and Intelligence working directly with US big tech
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/social-media-is-a-tool-of-the-cia-seriously/
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Then watch the video and tell us how much of it is bullshit. I’m watching the video right now, it’s not difficult to do, you can do it too, you might come away fully assured of your position.
Actually a lot of people have time for that, several of them are here telling you that you’re wrong, and you refuse to listen to any of them because your head is so far up your ass you can’t see daylight
So you won’t trust sources that aren’t “vetted”, and you refuse to vet them yourself: how, then, do you even establish the trust you seek?
“the creator of the video is able to cherry-pick their information and weave it into the narrative that they want”
Its called an essay. You take primary and secondary sources, and then weave them together with arguments to persuade a point. You also provide all your sources so people can fact check your assertions based on the facts you’ve provided. Typically you need to read/listen to the essay. Then if you find their arguments unpersuasive, or fishy you check their sources and reply (you don’t literally have to, it can be just for yourself) using their own sources against them, or your own sources and arguments that dispute their claims. Its the essence of critical thinking, genius.
So you do not consume any media that isn’t from a source you have already deemed to be “trustworthy” ahead of time.
Have you ever heard of the term “information bubble”
How does somebody establish trust with somebody else who refuses to investigate?