For those unfamiliar:

The 50 Cent Party, also known as the 50 Cent Army or wumao, are Internet commentators who are paid by the authorities of the People’s Republic of China to spread the propaganda of the governing Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The program was created during the early phases of the Internet’s rollout to the wider public in China.

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I never brought up the US. You’re using them as a deflection from the topic at hand.

All I did was refute your claim that “China operates on the principle of peace. Not constant war.” That claim is easily debunked. Why spread lies?

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China operates on the principle of peace. Not constant war.

ROFL!

• Territorial disputes of the People’s Republic of China

So peaceful.

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Yes.

It is permabans and hooks and jabs all the way, for every single weird freak that backs this deranged hateful shit.

I agree. As a mod on LW myself I have to wonder how far the admin are willing to go to enforce such a policy. Are they really going to start removing mods for banning trolls and bigots‽

*Edit: oops, I got the posts mixed up. I thought this was the post about lemmy.world’s new policy on debating trolls instead of banning them.

!LateStageCapitalism@lemmy.world

West was similarly eager to sell out his fans after they made him wealthy so he could suckle on trump’s teat.

And there it is. Blame the Democrats for not stopping the Republicans from doing their misdeeds.

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WTF‽

“The head of Mozilla earned roughly $5.6 Million during 2021.”

Yes.

Imagine all the data they’re able to harvest through GV. I doubt they’ll ever kill it.

I doubt they record and retain all phone calls, but I wouldn’t be surprised either.

Google Voice is much easier. Just enable the settings for voicemail transcription and an email sent with the transcription.

But then you have Google listening to all your calls. It’s a tradeoff

To be fair the ‘dystopian’ quote is from the guy that got broken up with, not ARS’ article writer.

I don’t think that’s the part they took issue with.

https://youtu.be/bPUNsdwViE8&t=104

It reminds me of that Futurama episode where they go to a XXX chatroom and all the kids “confirming” their age

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