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Re:U.S. widens trade blacklist to include some of China’s to... by chronic71819 on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @03:48PM (#21196400)
Censor: Highly targeted and specific, usually along the lines of communication. Like Xi and Winnie the Pooh. The US doesn't censor(?)

Blacklist: Broader, usually applied to products and companies. China blacklisted Facebook. The US blacklisted Huawei.

Re:U.S. widens trade blacklist to include some of China’s to... by C14L on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @04:02PM (#21196552)
> The US doesn't censor(?)

Any government will try to censor at some point. The difference is that Western countries have independent judicial branches with the power to stop the government from censoring.

Re:U.S. widens trade blacklist to include some of China’s to... by gpm on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @04:15PM (#21196680)
This strikes me as a pretty meaningless statement. The judicial branch is part of the government, if they stop the government from censoring (or doing anything else) then the government doesn't censor (or do anything else).
Re:U.S. widens trade blacklist to include some of China’s to... by est on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @10:21PM (#21199384)
China didn't prohibit Chinese people or companies from spending money on advertising on facebook.

US blacklisted Chinese companies from buying US products.

It's a subtle difference.

Re:U.S. widens trade blacklist to include some of China’s to... by mijamo on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @04:18PM (#21196716)
Every state censors things in some way, he difference is what is censored and how much impact it has obviously.

Censorship can also describe private actions such as Twitter/Facebook refusing some ideas, and is that case is vastly vastly present in every country.

Re:U.S. widens trade blacklist to include some of China’s to... by jayrot on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @04:47PM (#21197064)
> Censorship can also describe private actions such as Twitter/Facebook refusing some ideas,

That's only true in the vernacular. True "censorship" is only relevant to government suppression. Individuals or private corporations are under no legal obligation to allow certain ideas/topics.

*That is to say, I could perfectly well create some new social network messaging app that specifically does not allow any posts about honeybees, screwdrivers, or Turkey. The government could not prohibit those topics.

Re:U.S. widens trade blacklist to include some of China’s to... by mlyle on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @07:24PM (#21198382)
> Individuals or private corporations are under no legal obligation to allow certain ideas/topics.

(Though it does become problematic as communication channels are concentrated in a few parties hands, which is why, in part, we have things like the common carrier doctrine. In the end, if one party accumulates enough power and uses it in a way that it is oppressive, whether that party is a government, a warlord, or a corporation).

Re:U.S. widens trade blacklist to include some of China’s to... by mlindner on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @04:53PM (#21197131)
I'm really not a big fan of this kind of moral relativism. The US (though Donald Trump seems to want to) does not "blacklist" or "censor" to silence political dissent. China does and always has, heavily, to the point of nonsense.