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Re:China Bans the Word 'Leica' on Social Media by lovemenot on Sunday April 21, 2019 @07:02PM (#19715116)
Including myself, there's probably many other people reading this who have not read it and would like one or two of its salient points.
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Re:China Bans the Word 'Leica' on Social Media by CamperBob2 on Sunday April 21, 2019 @07:09PM (#19715134)
The basic idea is that tolerating totalitarianism is self-defeating, even when done to prop up one's fondest notions of cultural relativism.
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Re:China Bans the Word 'Leica' on Social Media by tomrod on Sunday April 21, 2019 @10:50PM (#19716042)
This is a good read for the notion. I found it a good starting point when I dug into this a little while ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

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