that’s a difference in governments. you can post a grotesque picture of Biden in a public square, no tech platform necessary, the raw American state won’t fuck with you, the Chinese state will. (we’ll see under Trump, these motherfuckers want lese majeste back.) 1/

so far the American state is constrained on punishment of speech. that might change. if it does, do you think X will be any less transparent to the US state than TikTok to CCP? 2/

so it’s the difference in the quality of states that matters, not the state/corporate distinction. who is doing more than any single human being to degrade the quality of the American state? There are a bunch of good candidates, but Elon Musk would be high on any reasonable list. /fin