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Re:I helped build ByteDance's censorship machine by saghm on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @07:32PM (#26245012)
> Though you could say it was the American Revolution that set things off and that it merely took America 250 years to go through the progression that the French Revolution traveled in a mere 5 years

We're still quite a far way off from literally beheading people in the streets (and no, having your Twitter account banned is not even remotely comparable)

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Re:I helped build ByteDance's censorship machine by throwaway8581 on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @08:09PM (#26245351)
No need to cut heads off. It’s less messy and more palatable to take someone’s entire livelihood away. Any real threat to power comes from the middle class. Make it so their precarious status depends on loyalty to your ideology and you have all the control you need.
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