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Re:Zoom Acknowledges It Suspended Activists' Accounts at Chi... by komali2 on Saturday June 13, 2020 @01:58AM (#23507185)
It's no cop out - businesses don't hold a monopoly on violence. They can't summarily remove the right of travel and speech (by jailing someone).

A Nazi getting banned from Facebook isnt comparable to a human rights lawyer being stuck under house arrest for years.

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Re:Zoom Acknowledges It Suspended Activists' Accounts at Chi... by pphysch on Saturday June 13, 2020 @01:52PM (#23511222)
A whistleblower being disappeared or psychologically tortured is perhaps a fairer comparison to what goes on under Freedom & Democracy.
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