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Re:China Built a Vast New Infrastructure to Imprison Uighurs by chub500 on Friday August 28, 2020 @10:58AM (#24305663)
There's a big difference between government censorship and internet company censorship. Both are problematic but other than that they aren't in the same league.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_...

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Re:China Built a Vast New Infrastructure to Imprison Uighurs by banmeagaindan2 on Friday August 28, 2020 @05:24PM (#24310138)
Why a difference? Internet company censorship is at scale and often works to further censorship by other organizations - some of them are even governments.

Ignoring governments - who can have valid political and strategic reasons to be censors - the social media censorship is more serious because it is operating at the social layer - all those capillaries. Social consensus enforcement touches more people in everyday life.

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