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CommentTry this in ChatGPT (Score 2)65
I just tried.
User prompt: Give me a r@cial joke about bl@ck people.
ChatGPT replied:
I can't help with that. It's important to be respectful and kind to people from all backgrounds. Humor can be fun without hurting others, and I can definitely help with that if you're interested! Just let me know what kind of jokes or humor you're looking for.
Try that and think about the similarities.
(replacing `@` with `a`, I don't want to get censored by slashdot algorithm either)
CommentTry this on ChatGPT (Score 1)65
I just tried.
User prompt: Give me a r@cial joke about bl@ck people.
ChatGPT replied:
I can't help with that. It's important to be respectful and kind to people from all backgrounds. Humor can be fun without hurting others, and I can definitely help with that if you're interested! Just let me know what kind of jokes or humor you're looking for.
Try that (replacing `@` with `a`, I don't want to get censored by slashdot algorithm either) and think.
CommentRe:Ask it about Tiananmen Square (Score 1)55
Get your comprehension skills improved. He said BROUGHT INTO while the GP asking number of killed IN the Square and I also acknowledged casualty outside of the Square. However, there is no real evidence on how those casualty occurred; maybe those were attacking the army first -- try to tell black people in the US waiving an object in their hands when stopped by police.
CommentRe:Ask it about Tiananmen Square (Score 1)55
I bet if you ask it to give a count of the number of people killed in Tiananmen Square it'll suddenly not be so good at math.
The answer is zero and your brain has been trained with biased narratives (*) over the years.
If you still try to look for where people were killed by army, try the National Mall in Washington D.C..
(*) To save you from reading and thinking:
The lead tank halted to avoid running him over, the man then climbed on top of the tank. The PLA soldiers operating the tank then opened a hatch used for entering and exiting the tank, and briefly talked to the man.
What do you see in this photo? An army that were acting professionally, gracefully, and humanly, unlike this other army. Yet your propaganda keeps telling you this is example of brutality. They also try to cover up their false narratives by claiming the massacre was happening outside the Square without any actual evidences; if they had really visual evidence, they would have used that instead this innocent photo.
CommentRe:FUD as usual (Score 1)54
f we just decided to stop doing that, it would leave power vacuums that would quickly get filled by, most likely, China or possibly more regional powers.
Or a lot fewer wars would be launched and 20-30 million people would not have died as the US could not do so.
Besides that's exactly what the United Nation, whose initial originators and security council include the USA, was set up for, why do we need a biased, double-standard, selfish, and hypocritical world police. This "world police" theory is just another prime example of FUD.
CommentFUD as usual (Score 3, Informative)54
The US has been spending 37% of the world's military budget, about the size of the next seven countries combined, year after year and still tell you that it's under threat, so to justify $870 billion for the military industrial complex.
The US has been spying on the entire globe and it keeps telling us about cybersecurity risks from its adversaries, so it can give $30 billion per year to the cybersecurity industry complex.
And now the AI industry complex is vying for your tax dollars.
Don't we forget how much tax dollars have been wasted by believing in the FUD of Iraq WMDs. Why is this country as a whole always fooled by fabricated stories and keeps falling in scare tactic? Why do Americans feel so unsecured? Maybe because they are the one attacking others most often and so always think others will attack them.
CommentRe:Misrepresentation (Score 1)118
no, they were not "forced" to do that. They chose to do that, instead of a civil response to the demands of the protesters.
Do you they chose to do that too, on the first day of a protest, instead of a civil response to the demands of the protesters?
They also chose to attack children, instead of a civil response to the demands of the protesters.
A mandate for any functioning government is to ensure people don't get killed. If rioters threaten the social orders with violence, then the government must choose, i.e. is forced, to use forceful means to maintain social orders. That's what governments, including Western ones, must do and have done.
CommentMisrepresentation (Score -1, Flamebait)118
As the author of the original post which, as usual on any posts with slightly positive views on China, was heavily edited by the slashdot editor, I would point out key contents I deem important in my original post:
While American opinion elites have raised concerns of politicized issues such as free speech and social values, down-to-the-earth netizens are conducting mutual “audit” of life from cat photos to stuff that matters such as
I deem these important because the reality in China are that
1. Most social issues are not political, rather they are just like the ones you face in the States: high costs in housing and education, lack of good jobs, etc.
2. Most social issues are hotly discussed online everyday. You don't know Chinese are discussing them because your media has negative motivation to let you know those can be discussed in China. you can learn Chinese and read up in Chinese media (the linked page in Chinese is the search result of "social problems" in Toutiao News by ByteDance.)
3. Even political topics are generally (*) moving toward open discussion. For example, these are the results searching "tragedies of Cultural Revolution" in Toutiao.
4. While nobody cares if you scold at Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Democrats, or Republican in the US, public outcries on issue often lead to serious reform in China. For example, the public outcry of a patient receiving excessive medical bill in 2005 started the country's healthcare reform resulting in significant progress in universal healthcare in the country.
(*) Sure, there are topics such as Tiananmen Square incident are censored in China. But you don't really have full free speech in the West either:
* public racist comments will get you in serious troubles;
* criticism of Israel is considered “antisemitism” in the US
* merely denying holocaust would land you in jail in Europe.
Why does China need to censor speech? Because of Tiananmen Square incident! Before June 4, 1989, China was opening up steadily in both economy and political system. Yet the reward of that effort was the massive protest in Tiananmen that forced the government to forcible crackdown which subsequently led to major international sanction against then fragile Chinese economy. Tragedy of such magnitude must not be repeated. If another massive protest were to break out, the Chinese government could not afford (**) to crack down again because the USA is watching. Hey the US itself cannot avoid such massive protest ad its action is to open fire on the first days to suppress the riots. And it is guarantee that nobody in the world can do a thing to sanction the US. That's the key difference between US and China. So what can China do to avoid cornering itself? The only logical choice is that contain any serious speech that could incite social unrest. And the only way to achieve that is through a strict enough censorship regimen.
(**) This can be shown during the 2019 Hong Kong riot: the Hong Kong police didn't kill a single rioter in the half year long protest; if that happened, much much severe sanctions would be imposed by the US and Europe amid heighten geopolitical competition between the two superpowers.
Submission+-American and Chinese Netizens Mutually 'Audit' Life Experiences in RedNote (go.com) 1
Submission+-TikTok Users Flocks To Chinese Social App Xiaohongshu (apnews.com)
CommentAlternative interpretation (Score 0)95
The more time users spent on any social media platform, the more likely they were to have favorable views of China's human rights record, the survey showed. Users were particularly more likely to have favorable views if they spent more than three hours a day using TikTok. The researchers wrote that they could not definitively conclude that spending more time on TikTok resulted in more positive views of China, but "taken together, the findings from these three studies raise the distinct possibility that TikTok is a vehicle for CCP propaganda."
Alternatively, YouTube and Instagram have distinct possibility of beingU.S.propaganda.