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Yeah people bringing up China as if it's some bastion of freedom in comparison to us are hilarious.

Soviet man and American man were arguing about which country was more free.

The American man said "I am so free I could walk up to the White house right now and scream 'I hate Ronald Reagan he is an incompetent buffoon.' Without getting arrested."

The Russian man responded "That is not any more free than me I too could walk up to the Kremlin and scream 'I hate Ronald Reagan he is an incompetent buffoon.' without getting in any trouble."

No one did that. That is a straw man. People are less free but govt and institutions aligned with govt are more free.

But they are doing it in a way that do not hinder their fundamentals - they are enforcing that on alignment (see Baichuan2-chat) and application levels.

Unlike Biden's silly EO which puts restrictions on foundation model compute levels.

The party is under the authority of its ‘forever’ president Xi Jingping, a good friend of another dully elected president - Putin.

And the interest is: “whatever is on the mind of an aging, non-elected dictator and his favorites”.