søndag 25. januar 2026

Citizens’ servility to censorship China’s strongest weapon?

US tech billionaire entrepreneur Palmer Luckey has said in a podcast interview that despite their advanced weapons capabilities, China’s strongest weapon may be the government’s ability to control the populace with propaganda and get people to buy into causes that might be completely false.

He has expressed astonishment with China’s culture and how it differs from America, saying they’re much more open to censorship.

Providing a sweeping assessment of China’s control over political memory and public discourse, Luckey has argued in a conversation on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast, that social norms and state systems reinforce one another. And he has described how many Chinese citizens dismiss Western concerns about historical atrocities such as Tiananmen Square as irrelevant, portraying those who raise the topic as disruptive.