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Re:Tiananmen Square: What happened in the protests of 1989? by PavlovsCat on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @10:00AM (#20095070)
Seems in line with what is known so far, e.g. https://gking.harvard.edu/publications/how-censorship-china-...
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Re:Tiananmen Square: What happened in the protests of 1989? by mac01021 on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @10:51AM (#20095569)
That does seem consistent. But why adopt that strategy? Why not pull out the dissent by its roots?
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Re:Tiananmen Square: What happened in the protests of 1989? by rellui on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @11:04AM (#20095689)
They're giving them a delusion of freedom so that most won't realize they're censored or passively accept it. If the government goes all out then it might cause a revolt. Soft tactics are always scarier than hard tactics.
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