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Re:Facebook Said to Create Censorship Tool to Get Back into ... by hcarvalhoalves on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @03:04AM (#13020967)
> gaining access to a censored Facebook would be a step forward overall (right now, Facebook is essentially 100% censored)

I don't think it's a step forward at all, because users won't ever know how much censorship their Facebook has. So they'll get the sensation of no censorship while being censored.

This is worse than not having access at all, which is at least an explicit censorship and makes citizens wonder, as opposed to something subtle and dishonest.

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Re:Facebook Said to Create Censorship Tool to Get Back into ... by olalonde on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @03:24AM (#13021052)
The majority of Chinese people know that social networks and the web in general are censored. Worse than that, it's considered common sense that publicly speaking up against the government is a risky thing to do, which results in self censorship and apathy towards politics. I don't think they would assume things to suddenly be different when using Facebook.
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