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Are the UK and China Authoritarian? (programming.dev)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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I've often heard that China is authoritarian, particularly due to events like the suppression of student protests in Hong Kong. However, I'm curious about more recent examples. Conversely, I've been hearing about the UK's Online Safety Act being used to target Wikipedia editors and silence protests, which raises questions about authoritarian tendencies there as well. What specific examples do you have that demonstrate whether these countries are authoritarian or not?

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[โ€“] 12 points 1 year ago

I personally don't think that first past the post is really democractic. In a local election recently, some racist won with 35% of the vote

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