I did not meant fully degoogled androids! Sorry for the confusion. But most people running custom ROMs add Google play support/emulation because most apps use it.
As for microG, since I’m coming from GrapheneOS, I don’t know much about it. Might be a better solution
iOS has a nice default set of privacy respecting apps. iOS isn’t perfect but it’s as close as you can get to having a usable phone while having some sort of privacy.
Android always sends requests to Google. A de-googled phone with no Play Services is too limiting.
I disagree. You can always aim to be neutral, stick to the facts, and not favor a specific side. You'll never fully achieve it, but you can come close to it.
I got temporarily banned for a month indeed, but what does that change? Not a lot in my opinion. I won't be going back anyways.
Why do I need to explain my reasoning when it's pretty well known that China isn't the best place to live for human rights? On the other hand, I get banned with no explanation, apart from a "Don't be rude" rule, like what??
Companies censoring speech isn't the same as a country censoring speech. As far as I'm concerned we still have some sort of freedom of press. Btw, where did I say the USA was perfect? I would put it in the bad countries for human rights due to how they treat non-US people (you probably know the many wars/conflicts they've been into and how they feel like they have every rights on other territories like how Isreal was created, or that they can kill civilians in military operations).
Surely the political opponents in Hong Kong are fine and not persecuted as well.
From the little I've read about the report you sent, which I don't have the time to read rn, but might later, I saw multiple things like acts of "disruption of social order" can be considered as terrorist activity. We know that in countries with strong control of the government like China, "terrorism" is often used to justify repression against political opponents. It's even stated in the report (didn't saw that it was as I was writing this)
However, again, a number of the activities listed remain stated in vague
and/or subjective terms without further clarification as to the content of what these may
encompass, e.g., “disruption of social order and other serious social harm”.
What I'm reading is a lot of bad things. The report is rather incriminating.
I read "left" as his other daughter being dead đź‘€