I would ask you; have you ever listened to an MLs response to these things? I could do that if you want. But, I think you’re confusing the moderation of an instance to maintain intelligent discourse with a conclusion of “they are denying facts” I’ll give an analogy. If it helps. Do you think a person posting “black crime statistics” in any “left leaning” sub would be taken seriously? Would that sub explain to every individual person the relationship of poverty, the relationship of policing black neighborhoods, the relationship of the for profit prison systems? The war on drugs, etc etc etc. No, they would offer resources to these things. But the sub is not meant to be a place where “technically” style Ben Shapiro types are given a voice. They get banned. Those types of people would not be welcome in any “liberal” space. They are not there to engage in conversation. They are there to say “black people are criminals”. This is the same type of perspective that most MLs have on China or otherwise. It is not that we have a cult like view of China or other historically socialist projects. So, yeah, maybe you got banned. But you were probably the 1000th person posting “statistics” that was never looking to hear the response. Maybe you were. Maybe you were sincere in asking. But an ML run instance is not the place to learn that. It’s a place for discourse and criticism between people that already have a certain level of understanding. At least on the level of being able to understand why the equivalent of “black on black crime” is conservative garbage. If you got this far. I’ll gladly address what you linked. And my analogy is not 1to1. I have major criticisms of China when it comes to labor. But, we need to establish a level of understanding.