just saying billionaires manipulating shit has been the norm for ages, which is why we used to have media-ownership limits…repealed under Clinton iirc

news networks have been doing this same pretty much since they’ve existed

them disregarding the law is about as acab as it gets

it was the only place to get actual unspun news about the genocide in gaza, which is so heavily censored in the west that a couple livestreams threatens the whole house of cards. obviously the chinese have their own censorship but if your in the west your trying to escape western propaganda not chinese propaganda

same reason why chinese kids flock to discord/other services. though from what i hear chinese doesn’t really care so much if you know/speak about X internal-propaganda subject, just long as you don’t “agitate” or try to orginize against it.

it just makes it evermore obvious to them how many people in their life are sheep that believe anything the read online, i assume? a false sense of confidence where one mught have just said 'i dont know"

circlejerk?