Beijing Wants to Rewrite the Rules of the Internet

Re:Beijing Wants to Rewrite the Rules of the Internet by RcouF1uZ4gsC on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @10:48AM (#17347162)

Western companies filter out “hate speech”. Chinese companies do the same. In China, the definition of “hate speech” also includes anything that is critical of the government or Xi Jinping.

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Re:Beijing Wants to Rewrite the Rules of the Internet by garmaine on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @11:23AM (#17347508)

My ISP doesn’t filter hate speach, and it’d better damn stay that way.

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Re:Beijing Wants to Rewrite the Rules of the Internet by jerf on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @11:27AM (#17347554)

You ISP may not, but plenty of other filtering is going on on social media, YouTube, and all sorts of other sites. I say this without commentary on whether it's good or bad, but it is definitely happening.

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Re:Beijing Wants to Rewrite the Rules of the Internet by unethical_ban on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @11:27AM (#17347551)

Companies, not ISPs. Facebook, Twitter, reddit, etc. do (claim to) censor the worst of it.

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