• z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Well, tencent did make a sizable investment in Reddit a few years back.

      https://time.com/5526128/china-reddit-tencent-censorship/

      But then again r/fuckthecpp was a pretty active sub that received pretty much no censorship from the CCP as far as I know.

      I try and avoid Discord though …they farm way too much data. I use it only when co workers insist on using the platform, but I always begrudgingly mention Matrix clients like Element instead.

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          1 year ago

          You can open up ublock origin, noscript, or even just your network manager in your browser’s devtools console to take a look. I just remember it being a lot.

          The YouTuber trafotin does a good job showcasing how to best harden it, but unlike most sites, discord has made their app unusable unless you allow pretty much all of their trackers through.

          https://yewtu.be/watch?v=QWZE7YEpzHE

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        1 year ago

        A private business taking action on their platform is very different than the government mandating censorship of criticism directed at said government…

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          1 year ago

          Both the results of consultation of power in the hands of few over then many. State capitalism and private capitalism have, as expected, parrells in results.