Re:Hong Kong protests: 'I'm in Australia but I feel censored...
by jhanschoo on Saturday August 03, 2019 @06:34AM
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The comment you are replying to is not making any judgment on the morality of the state, and is likely in agreement with you. It's just pointing out that the grandparent's rhetorical suggestion is undermined by an incorrect premise (that people don't know about US atrocities and their criticism and would be appalled to know them, where actually such information is easily available)
You don't have to, when nobody really cares for it, and the system is such that nobody is gonna do anything about it (and the people who did those things get a slap on the wrist, if not a pat on the back).
It's regimes that lack this that censor information -- regimes that are worried that e.g. protests could result in bringing them down.
If you don't worry about that, you can let almost anything be said. Especially if you just let it be declassified/acknowledged decades after the fact, when even fewer will care.