China’s scary lesson to the world: Censoring the Internet works

Re:China’s scary lesson to the world: Censoring the Internet... by PhasmaFelis on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @03:35AM (#11759604)

This is known as the "And you are lynching negroes" argument, from the Soviet rhetorical tactic used to deflect attention from their own human rights abuses without actually having to address them. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes

> If China wasn't so protecive, they would have become economically dependent on the west (as opposed to being the powerhouse they are today).

You're claiming that China's economic growth and independence is because they censor their citizens?

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Re:China’s scary lesson to the world: Censoring the Internet... by chrischen on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @03:49AM (#11759654)

They censor outside influence and ideas that are influenced from the outside. Obviously ideas that infect people within China would be in practice censoring "Chinese" people.

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Re:China’s scary lesson to the world: Censoring the Internet... by PhasmaFelis on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @09:23PM (#11774540)

> They censor outside influence and ideas that are influenced from the outside.

Well, no, they censor all ideas that run contrary to the party line, period, regardless of origin. I suppose you could try to claim that no Chinese person could ever independently conceive of an idea that contravenes the will of the Party, so if such ideas occur then they must have been crowbarred into their innocent minds by foreign propagandists, but that would be stupid.

> Obviously ideas that infect people within China would be in practice censoring "Chinese" people.

Huh?

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