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

Re:China’s scary lesson to the world: Censoring the Internet... by Kristine1975 on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @12:14PM (#11762774)

>Even Churchill's promise to fight until all Europe was free was only half kept, for half of Europe fell behind an iron curtain

And in the other half minorities such as homosexuals were persecuted. Including Alan Turing, who in WW2 helped break the ciphers of the German military.

>All we have to do is stand fast with our freedoms

Yes, our freedoms (see above)...

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Re:China’s scary lesson to the world: Censoring the Internet... by kmonsen on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @01:02PM (#11763268)

True, western democracy is limited and not what it should be.

However you are missing the bigger point, western democracies are almost always leading the way with more rights than any one else. For how homosexuals were treated in Germany see here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_homosexuals_in_...

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