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Re:Letter from Shenzhen by wer716 on Monday July 16, 2018 @12:03AM (#17538684)
What kind of "censorship" though? Wouldn't excessive patent laws and lawsuits be a kind of censorship?

By that token, the average Chinese person is more free than they would have been 50 years ago. I don't think people realize how restrictive China was back then and how free they are now.

Sure, they still have a long way to go, but to say that they are getting "less free" is incorrect.

Ask any Chinese if they would rather live under Mao vs living now.

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Re:Letter from Shenzhen by L_226 on Monday July 16, 2018 @02:31AM (#17539187)
A lesser of two evils argument does not imply that the lesser is actually a good.
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Re:Letter from Shenzhen by simplify on Monday July 16, 2018 @02:57PM (#17543942)
No one said the lesser was a good.
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