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So... what? You're against this becoming more accessible outside of China?
I'm not the commenter you replied to but I read their view more along these lines. That no large online video provider gives a good experience and while this is more competition for YouTube it's kind of like comparing two piles of shit - both stink.
Which idk never used it but yeah China has its own brand of suck compared with the West. Still, I agree it'd be good to have more cultural exchange - that's the sort of thing that over time leads to better relations between nation states and decreases the likelihood of war.
You know the older I get, the lesson of "there are no good guys" really keeps getting hammered home. This is just a reminder of that.
These reactions just seem a little overwrought to me. I'm sure everyone commenting watches plenty of YouTube, but the mere mention of a Chinese platform brings dire warnings and energetic condemnations. Like maybe it does suck, but most people here wouldn't really know! That's my point-- that it's crazy to have such strong opinions about something that you have no experience with.
I get it. There's a lot of propaganda out there (that goes both ways) about China.
For better or worse they're going to lead the charge into the 2100s, this is the dawn of the new Chinese century and the USA is busy handing them the reins as we implode our country.
I think China is a little friendlier overall in their foreign relations and while freedom of expression is important I would not say their society as a whole is better or worse than all the rest of the world. It feels like sometimes, from what I've heard and seen, China is "more" free in certain aspects compared to the USA (and definitely less free in others)