Chinese internet giants will get about three months to adhere to Beijing’s new directive against “information cocoons.”
  • Anticorp@lemmy.worldEnglish
    151·
    8 months ago

    China is one giant echo chamber. I think what they mean is “echo chambers that disagree with state approved propaganda”.

    • xav@programming.dev
      31·
      8 months ago

      Every country/social group is its own echo chamber. The problem they address is real.

        • milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee
          4·
          8 months ago

          Democracy also means allowing the people to form and discuss their ideas, on their own terms, whether sane or stupid. Not because that’s necessarily best, but because that’s democracy - authority belongs to the people not to their government.

          The responsibility to lead and guide people’s ideas, in a democracy, does not lie in the strict control of government, it lies elsewhere. Where that elsewhere is, of course, everyone will argue differently. But not, I think, in governmental control.

      • Anticorp@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        8 months ago

        Not to the extent that China is. They do not have freedom of speech nor freedom of the press. That said, I would love to see legislation addressing this problem globally, and also legislation about all of the data mining.