That user is saying it in a more conspiracy sounding way, but isn’t factually wrong as long as you replace “given” with “sold”.

The publicly built and operated Internet infrastructure was cut up and sold off in 94 by Clinton to telephone companies at very friendly rates.

Governments send money to their fellow top people, by accident if not design.

Loving it, Voyager is great to use.

Would like a way to pull up a list of instances federated and defederated with my own.

Also, an easier way to get a non-voyager link to a comment to then post for people.

My trouble with both of these might be faulty user errors.

The person you’re replying to may be much further to the left than you give them credit for.

The lesser of two evils is still evil and deserves to be called such. The US is not a benevolent nation.

I mean, all the Chengdu '89 mums get rounded up at the end of May each year still.

You can’t even talk about the Cultural Revolution these days.

Even stating the fact that the RoC still exists will get your WeChat account closed.

I’m not sure what you think PRC censorship is like.

It’s hard to when no space or support is allowed for criticism of capitalism in mainstream politics.

The Far Right has been given huge amounts of media coverage in the UK, maxes headlines whenever they sneeze. Left of centre left parties never get given positive - or even balanced - coverage.

Either you tar and feather them with whatever sticks (Corbyn, Melchanthon), or ignore them (Yanofakis, Lucas).

Yes, the Left could, must, do better at telling a narrative about what it is for and will do. But detailed criticism or self and systemic issues doesn’t galvanise people the way “we’re great but under threat” does.

A lot of the world would like the US to keep it’s hands and armies to itself inside it’s borders.

The US withdrawing from the international stage, is probably a good thing, with the exception of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine.