The war started in 2022, and so this means that they were trading with Russia for 3 years straight with no consequences until July 18, 2025, unless I am missing something. Like, why didn’t they get sanctioned in 2022 but only after 3 years?

Why were they able to stay under the radar for 3 years?

I doubt UK could surpass China and Russia in terms of internet censorship any time soon

You know you can just switch to some small instance that’s not blocked and you’re gonna be good? Even in China the small Lemmy instances work while the big ones are obviously blocked

Did you actually read what you quote? It aligns with what I said - Chinese feel mostly satisfied with their government and don’t want the democracy, and don’t feel that their government is democratic. Claiming that Chinese believe that their country is democratic is not what Harvard did in the document that you’ve provided.

Regarding “not only possible but likely”: please do the math. If the share of population believing in X is 90%, the chance that none of the five selected people do X is (1 - 0.9)^5 = 0.001% (i.e., 1 in 100,000), assuming independence across people. That’s what you call likely?

PS. Why is this always the .ml instance 😀

Well, I must have been super unlucky then as I have talked about it with like 5 different Chinese met at 5 different circumstances

Over 90% of Chinese agree that “democracy is important” and 80% agree that their country is democratic? Was this survey conducted in Taiwan and signed as “China” complying with “one China policy”?

I’ve never met any Chinese believing that their country is democratic nor that democracy is important. Quite the opposite - they usually say that China grew thanks to the lack of democracy (never calling it a dictatorship though)

Even the CCP propaganda doesn’t claim that China is the democracy but instead they show the negative sides of the democracies so that people don’t even think that it may be a good idea if China was democratic

In India money makes all the laws irrelevant

Wow, I feel sorry for what you need to deal with. I hope you did not have to remove all their comments one by one though!

Can’t they really use EU technologies instead?

I don’t get the hype; the American companies (FedEx/UPS) will just keep the profits from now on instead

Worth adding that Max requires ID verification to sign up

Is this really something that a court needs to do?