With the market cap of their SOE’s, they have a broader impact on their economy. Sure, china is the most socialist relevant country in the world as of now.
Censorship can be ranked like anything else can.
https://rsf.org/en/index like they are trying to do.
It isn’t about market cap. The rubber factory has more power than the rubber ball factory, as an example, market cap is one window.
As for RSF, it’s a government-funded western propaganda outlet designed to manufacture consent against countries that don’t toe the Western line.
The NED in particular is pretty damning.
RSF was just an example to show that such a ranking exists. Removing conflict of interest and the ability to censor will be what’s needed in order to have real unguided public opinion.
That’s difficult to achieve.
The major thing to think about are things like CP, obviously that needs to be removed from existence.
So there’s positives to control, but nobody does anything for free.
Like here at Lemmy, I assume an instance creator of a popular instance will be able to be bought by companies or politicians.
Like Musk just bought twitter, lots of newspaper companies are owned by oligarchs. Other sources of news are owned by governments.
There’s always a conflict of interest.
It’s difficult to get away from.
A ranking only exists for propaganda purposes, though, that’s why it’s Western Government-Funded.
As for Lemmy and an instance creator being “bought,” it could happen, sure, but it hasn’t, and moreover such an instance can be defederated from.
