It looks like TikTok is still available so it’s better than USA.
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fxomt@lemm.ee 5 days ago
May i ask how is the censorship in venezuela?
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
fxomt@lemm.ee 4 days ago
Tiktok isn’t banned in Saudi either. Does that make us better than the USA, too?
Tiktok being banned in the US is pretty authoritarian, but using it as the only metric is a little BS.
NONE_dc@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Is not north Korea nor China, I can assure you that.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
Have you been to any of those places? It feels weird to use North Korea as a comparison.
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NONE_dc@lemmy.world 5 days ago
No. To be frank, it is a quick and superficial comparison trying to take as a reference countries with a “similar” ideological alignment to Venezuela.
Although that too is questionable, because, from what I have researched, Maduro’s government is only “socialist” in name.
fxomt@lemm.ee 5 days ago
So it’s not too bad? with how corrupt venezuela is, you’d think they would censor a lot of things. That’s how it works in most corrupt countries including mine at least.
NONE_dc@lemmy.world 5 days ago
It is very weird. The normal thing here is to throw shit at the government, at least at street level. I have heard that in social networks they are much tougher, I just have not experienced it because I no longer use the Mainstream social networks. There are blockades and restrictions, but they are punctual rather than general.
It seems to me they know that if they were to go full North Korea or China, it would be counterproductive for them, since people are already fed up. China is restrictive, but at least it is prosperous in its own way; and North Korea has decades of propaganda educating its population. Here there is neither.
DankOfAmerica@reddthat.com 5 days ago
Hi! I used to live in a US city with lots of recent Venezuelan immigrants. They would tell me about how difficult things were in Venezuela, but that they missed it a lot. Their faces would light up when I would ask them about things they liked about home. They also seemed to have hope that things in Venezuela would improve and they could move back. It must be really difficult to leave one’s country to another for economic and political reasons. They didn’t truly want to leave, so they miss home, never really acculturate, and feel alienated. I don’t know if it makes any difference what I tell you, but wanted you to know that the recent Venezuelan immigrants I’ve met in the US still have their heart in Venezuela.
fxomt@lemm.ee 5 days ago
That’s very admirable of you guys. Unfortunately we in other third world countries are completely submissive, and will allow ourselves to be pushed around. I mean, we are pretty prosperous in KSA too, but it’s not worth living like a slave imo.
I don’t know about state violence in venezuela, but i’ll assume it’s like ours/other countries. So stay safe.