Our weekly roundup of news from East Asia curates the industrys most important developments.Chinese worker fined $145K over VPN An unnamed individual in China was fined 1.06 million yuan ($144,907) for using a virtual private network (VPN) to access restricted websites as part of a remote work rout…
Capitalists put you in jail for marijuana. They used to put you in jail for alcohol. Hell, child labor is used in capitalist countries. China honestly is an authoritarian mixed economy. But perhaps, even in the USA, authoritarism is preferred.
The difference between democracy and fascism is that the laws are quickly changing due to public opinion in America, but that does not happen in China.
People have been smoking Marijuana since the 60’s and it’s still a federally illegal drug at the level of heroine. Laws don’t change quickly in the US at all.
Marijuana use only recently became publicly accepted by the majority of people. As a result, it is now completely legal in many states and will likely soon be legal federally.
And there is still a lot of people, especially on lemmy, basically worshipping China and other communist countries.
Just because they slap socialist or communist on the country name doesn’t make it so.
Capitalists put you in jail for marijuana. They used to put you in jail for alcohol. Hell, child labor is used in capitalist countries. China honestly is an authoritarian mixed economy. But perhaps, even in the USA, authoritarism is preferred.
whataboutism
I’m not trying to defend America but they don’t put you in jail or fine you for using a VPN (yet).
Yeah, no leadership and fuck capitalism is the target
The difference between democracy and fascism is that the laws are quickly changing due to public opinion in America, but that does not happen in China.
People have been smoking Marijuana since the 60’s and it’s still a federally illegal drug at the level of heroine. Laws don’t change quickly in the US at all.
I never said laws change quickly.
Marijuana use only recently became publicly accepted by the majority of people. As a result, it is now completely legal in many states and will likely soon be legal federally.
This kind of thing would never happen in China.
I am not sure that is a positive trait about the USA.