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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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