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Re:China Blocks WhatsApp by 627467 on Monday September 25, 2017 @03:28PM (#15333293)
This is not a new situation. I grew up in a more liberal part of China and always thought their political situation was their bottleneck for economic, cultural and human development. The state of the world right now shows how I was wrong.

And as you mentioned, tightening of control by different governments around the world seems to indicate that we have found a common trend and its not the liberal one...

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Re:China Blocks WhatsApp by pishpash on Monday September 25, 2017 @07:42PM (#15335078)
There will be a bottleneck. It took hundreds of years of sea ban for Ming China to fall behind in the Age of Sail; it might take a few decades for a closed society to euthanize itself in a digital age built on free exchange and open discourse.
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Re:China Blocks WhatsApp by 627467 on Monday September 25, 2017 @11:01PM (#15335815)
But thats not the direction communist china has been taking. It has been opening more and more since the 70s
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Re:China Blocks WhatsApp by chaostheory on Thursday September 28, 2017 @12:36AM (#15354647)
Yes, it’s been that way until now. That was my point.
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