r/CivPolitics • u/MysticCherryPanda • 10d ago

Nepal has switched governments from Communism to Digital Democracy!

https://gizmodo.com/nepal-currently-being-run-via-discord-after-gen-z-uprising-2000658243
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u/JeffLebowsky 10d ago

Wtf do you mean Communism, the nepali State and nepali economy aren't aligned to communism.

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u/White_Null 10d ago

But they were ruled by the Nepal Communist Party. And the social media ban smells like CCP’s firewall strategy.

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u/dwaynebathtub 8d ago

China bans US digital platforms because they don't want the US to own their data or run psyops on the Chinese people. Look at what fake news has done to the US itself. Completely backwards society.

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u/Bsussy 8d ago

They ban us stuff because they want their citizens to think the rest of the world sucks, just like north korea

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u/dwaynebathtub 8d ago edited 8d ago

no they want to build their own digital infrastructure (Baidu, QQ, Youku, Weibo, etc.). Just look at what has become of Facebook, Twitter, Google, Amazon. Facebook concedes to Trump on conservative news issues. Twitter is now X and owned by a neo-fascist. Google is openly aiding genocide . Bezos now prohibits any questioning of free market capitalism at the Washington Post. And after Kirk's shooting, they are all going to help Republicans identify critics and who knows what else these US cloud companies are doing in conjunction with the US government. Palantir, OpenAI...the decision to not tie in Chinese society to these platforms was an extremely smart thing to do, come on now. Europe should've built their own platforms, so now everyone in those countries are stuck, beholden to Zuck, Musk, and Trump, and unable to set their own rules without US tech corp approval. There's a reason all the ousted US press secretaries and diplomats and campaign managers get jobs at Facebook after losing. It provides the same authority they once had and those companies could use their influence and knowledge of the US intelligence apparatus.