And it was much harder in the 90s in the US than it is now. Gay bashing was still pretty common. Change takes time. The direction of change is at least as important. It’s obvious that Russia and China are changing in diametrically opposite direction from one another. Go on see for yourself on Red Note, plenty of gay and lesbian content there.
Same can be said for quality of life as well. Russian’s life expectancy has been declining (not even accounting for the war), and so has their purchasing power and disposable income. Chinese citizen on the other hand are clearly benefiting from the system in which they evolve.
There are certainly things one can be critical about, but just discarding the whole of China and its system as a failure and counter to human wellbeing is pure copium and western exceptionalism.
I present to you: http://twister.net.co/
It uses a blockchain for authentication, kamilia DHT for torrent discovery and signed torrents for the content. It’s been around since 2013, but it never really took off.
It also has a lot of the issues pointed out by others like possible sybil attacks.
Exactly, but most of the west reveres him