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Re:Liu Cixin, China’s hottest science-fiction writer by xiaoma on Sunday August 09, 2015 @01:15PM (#10030741)
Looks to me like you've never been active on Weibo or spent much time in China. You'd have to be an idiot to publish media critical of the state at any scale.
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Re:Liu Cixin, China’s hottest science-fiction writer by shaobo on Sunday August 09, 2015 @01:58PM (#10030859)
No I haven't, but if you have the data to show otherwise, then by all means write it up.
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Re:Liu Cixin, China’s hottest science-fiction writer by xiaoma on Sunday August 09, 2015 @02:35PM (#10031000)
Do you seriously expect the PRC to publish pristine data on on arrests or executions related to anti-state speech or activities?
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Re:Liu Cixin, China’s hottest science-fiction writer by shaobo on Sunday August 09, 2015 @03:55PM (#10031345)
No, but there is also a wide spectrum of opinion/speech available in China between anti-state and pro-state.

The point I am trying to make is that people think China is a smidgen way from North Korea, when the actual difference is night and day.

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