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Re:China’s scary lesson to the world: Censoring the Internet... by tremon on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @03:31PM (#11764775)
The same is not true in countries without free speech protections.

I'm not convinced. I've seen plenty of (presumably) US citizens complain here that Europe doesn't have free speech, because we have laws to curb hate speech.

Still, we are very much free to discuss and organize against our government.

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Re:China’s scary lesson to the world: Censoring the Internet... by acbabis on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @03:50PM (#11764925)
If you are allowed to criticize policy, you have a discrete and specific right that people in other parts of the world do not. My point was that saying "it's all relative" doesn't tell the whole story, though I'm beginning to see that that was probably kbenson's point as well.
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