I helped build ByteDance's censorship machine
It would be interesting if someone from China could comment on censorship in China. Is there a fraction of people who agrees with it or is almost it universally disapproved of?<p>Some of these arguments for censorship made in this article sound eerily similar to how we justify censorship in the West.<p>&gt; Our role was to make sure that low-level content moderators could find &quot;harmful and dangerous content&quot; as soon as possible.<p>Without context this could apply to any Western social media platform. Of course in the West its companies not politicians who call the shots, but the language to justify the actions is certainly similar.<p>I&#x27;m not trying to equate Western censorship to Chinese censorship, but in the West it&#x27;s certainly fair to say many people are happy and even welcoming of censorship – is the same in China?