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I wasn't really trying to make a specific criticism where one country would come out as the "lighter" or the "darker", more so that the fabricated outrage and incredulity on the part of the US regarding foreign intervention in our "democracy" is an absurd kafkaesque delusion regarding our history.

> And aren’t you just exercising a black or white binary fallacy when we are really comparing a light shade of grey to a much darker one?

And which are you saying is which?

The lighter being China?

https://www.npr.org/2016/12/22/506625913/database-tracks-his...

The one that feels the need to block Facebook of course is worse. I’ll let you figure out what country is that.

And I'll let you figure out which country is more guilty in manipulating elections.

China doesn’t have elections (well, meaningful ones at least), so you are probably right there.

Why is blocking Facebook bad? I do not think the existence of Facebook has been a net-positive for society.

Propaganda and censorship are two different evils, the latter is worse than the former, IMHO, because it silences the conversation all together.