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Re:I’m Chinese, Google’s DragonFly Must Go On by publub on Friday November 30, 2018 @10:00PM (#18574813)
China suppresses free speech, yes. But it doesn’t go so far as citizens being terrified of being known as someone wanting Google to enter China. It’s not like 1984. The secret police isn’t going to come stick you and your family in an underground prison for wanting Google.

People are pretty open about what they want. Google is something many people (who know about it) want.

FWIW, yes, I could be propaganda. But if I were, I’d be doing something much more useful with my time than browsing hackernews and trying to argue against opinionated software engineers who don’t want to be convinced otherwise.

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Re:I’m Chinese, Google’s DragonFly Must Go On by unityByFreedom on Saturday December 01, 2018 @09:27AM (#18576895)
> The secret police isn’t going to come stick you and your family in an underground prison for wanting Google.

Perhaps you are unfamiliar with what happened recently to bookstore owners in Hong Kong. Or people who "stir up trouble" by criticizing the government on WeChat.

Funny that you mention underground prisons, because they are a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_jails

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