Comment by fc417fc802

> It's the same in the West, just under a more subtle form.

In other words it's not the same. Let's be completely clear about that.

Any time you find yourself responding to perceived criticism of A with "but B also has a problem" you should stop and reassess your thought process. Most likely it isn't objective.

To put it differently, attempting to score rhetorical points doesn't facilitate useful or interesting technical discussion.

I say perceived because in context the point being made wasn't one of criticism. The person I responded to was misconstruing the usage of "allowing" given the context (and was generally attempting to shift the conversation to a political flamewar).

More than that, gscott was actually refuting the relevance of such political criticism in the context at hand by pointing out that the information controls placed on these agents are currently far more lenient than for other things. Thus what is even the point of bringing it up? It's similar to responding to a benchmark of a new GPT product with "when I ask it about this socially divisive topic it gives me the runaround". It's entirely unsurprising. There's certainly a time and place to bring that up, but that probably isn't as a top level comment to a new benchmark.