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'Looking for my spy': The jokes Americans and Chinese are sharing on 'alternative TikTok' (www.bbc.com)

submitted 1 day ago by schizoidman@lemm.ee to c/news@beehaw.org

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[–] Shezzagrad@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

Pretty fair to say, I'd rather be Chinese then American. With a population of 1.4 billion they have less prisoners than America, the nation isn't infested by corporate control and you talk about not having governments breathing down you for 24/7 but forget meta, Google are actively harvesting your data and you're fully tapped by us governmental organisation. You've been propagandised about freedom, you have less freedom than a poor rural Chinese who is probably state subsidized