Come back when Americans are routinely jailed for rubbing their elites the wrong way (in some countries, criticisms aren't the only way to rub the leaders the wrong way)
This. America is an oligarchy. The political system is a joke facade with a revolving door to corporations. Your vote is meaningless, you dont actually have a choice. Media brainwashes the swaths.... but thought crime still isnt a reality here.
This would have worked a few years back, but now you can be detained at the US border for posting what you just did so it's a terrible example to pick.
By the way, even with the current administration, there's no question about which is the more authoritarian with their own citizens between China and the US. But if you aren't American, then the US government is much more of a threat than the Chinese.
China cannot make the life of an official in Europe miserable for investigating their atrocities towards the Uighurs, meanwhile CPI judges are now forcedly unbanked and cannot work with American software because they investigated in US's ally's atrocities in Gaza.
Pretty sure you guys have a strong laws about free-speech, and criticizing elites is part of that. Though there are some groups that do not really want the 1st amendment to be a thing.
Foreigners are literally being denied entry into the country due to opposing viewpoints expressed on social media. People have to disable FaceID on their phones prior to going through customs in case an agent decides to investigate whether their political views are in opposition to the current administration.
> And you're saying Americans aren't banned from criticising their elites?
Half the country would be locked up right now if they weren’t allowed to criticize Trump. Have you even paid attention to how much he’s shitted on, on a daily basis?
Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and Rep. Eric Burlison (R-Mo.), the chair of the Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs, sent letters to FBI Director Kash Patel, Secretary of Energy Chris Wright, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, and NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, requesting staff-level briefings no later than April 27.
As one of the seemingly few people in this comments section who don't use it for coding, it seems far far more substantial and able to produce insights in written conversation than opus 4.6 for me
Yep- we lost the "meat" and "warmth" of our societies, and our civics and idealism in the past 15 years, which would have been the very things to guide us through this transition.
How do you fix that? We're instigating social media bans- reading levels are declining- media consolidation is dumbing us down further- insane egotism is stopping people from developing as well rounded people- .
For me it would be a stronger media ecosystem (publicly funded), more non algorithmic and non likes driven social media (replace a bad vice with a less bad one), national digital detox days, and a ratification of a charter of inviolable human traits and dignities, and protected cultural areas (no ai art, writing for sale).
For all of the recipients. Tearing up a bit reading stories of courage that will never get the same recognition just because they weren't born a human.
I'd say it was when OpenAI had a mass exodus due to them making a deal with the Department of War (which they then backtracked on [1]). This started the QuitGPT movement [2].
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