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Re:China banned letter N from internet after people used it ... by dictum on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @09:04AM (#16483001)
They can do it without any cognitive dissonance by either classifying certain persons as non-citizens (hence not granted those rights) or by raising some unclear limit to these rights (so those who break national unity, "harmony" or some such aren't covered).

An example outside of China: Venezuela's Maduro, paying attention to international sensibilities, now classifies opposition to him and his government as "hate speech".

https://hosted.ap.org/article/8b39037f0c71478784778e4dcc8bb4...

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Re:China banned letter N from internet after people used it ... by jjoonathan on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @09:14AM (#16483065)
Why go to China for examples? That's how we do it in the USA, too.
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Re:China banned letter N from internet after people used it ... by liberte82 on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @11:30AM (#16484091)
Free speech zones? cough
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Re:China banned letter N from internet after people used it ... by tarken on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @02:24PM (#16485908)
like censorship doesn't happen in the usa. remember all that media coverage sanders got when he was packing stadiums while Clinton could barely fill a highschool auditorium? me neither.

how many mass shootings china had last year? oh wait

how about all those bombs dropped daily in the middle east? ah ooos sorry, america again.

USA USA USA

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Re:China banned letter N from internet after people used it ... by codezero on Thursday March 01, 2018 @11:18AM (#16493209)
That’s not censorship. Censorship is when the government restricts speech. The government doesn’t control American news media.

With that said I have no disagreement about the hypocrisy of USA bombing foreign countries.

As for shooting, how would we know if this happened in China since the government does control the media there. They could suppress anything they reflected negatively.

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