> They just have a better marketing / PR department about it.
The fact that opposing views could be brought into public discourse, not silenced or censored in QQ or Weibo, makes a huge difference.
It is not just marketing or PR. It is allowing the civil society to take part in public discourse, much like the recent debate on censoring Donald Trump.
> if you speak against this in the US, you’ll commit suicide
The fact that opposing views could be brought into public discourse, not silenced or censored in QQ or Weibo, makes a huge difference.
It is not just marketing or PR. It is allowing the civil society to take part in public discourse, much like the recent debate on censoring Donald Trump.
> if you speak against this in the US, you’ll commit suicide
Not to the same extent in China, far from it.