Since I owned and used it for a year or two, yes, I did probably know one or two things about it. Better just to make your point if you have one to make.

I bought one way back in 2015. A BQ Aquaris E5, quite decent hardware, factory-installed with Ubuntu Touch. It was an absolute disaster: buggy as hell, even the most basic native apps (SMS etc) hardly worked. Obviously no way to run Android apps. Somehow I made it work for about 3 months before giving up and flashing a CyanogenMod ROM.

There was one silver lining. At one point during those 3 months I managed to lose the phone in a (completely anonymous) taxi. The interface was obviously so weird and crappy that the taxi driver actually replied to my SMS and returned the thing to me.

Any decade now it will be ready!

This is a Wikipedia link

Indeed. A repository of sourced facts that happens to be banned in China.

Of course I understand the difference between the BBC and Sixth Tone. But there’s a difference between “pure propaganda” and self-censorship on selected topics (as you just sort-of admitted). A sports newspaper can maintain high journalistic standards even in a dictatorship.

When you read Sixth Tone, you know in advance that you will not see anything (very) negative about China. But what you do see will generally be covered fairly (and it’s often quite interesting).

Ironically, Sixth Tone is doing the exact inverse of what you’re doing in this community. When we see a post of yours, we all know in advance that the source will be somewhat reputable but that it will not say anything positive about China. The irony!

PBS, BBC, DW and a ton more are state-owned, too. Does that make them propaganda, too?

For those interested: some background on why Sixth Tone is not equivalent to Xinhua or Global Times.