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Re:Swiss Ph.D student’s dismissal spotlights China’s influence by rob_c on Saturday August 07, 2021 @12:11PM (#28099681)
It's usually to point out commonalities to get people to emote when having a conversation I find.

Yes comparing the scales of the Chinese sensorship to googles deplatforming of uncomfortable topics is not nice.

But explaining how one can lead to the other also explains to people in the west why something is bad. Especially when people would readily sleep walk into enabling technologies that would enable state sensorship at a level that would concern everyone.

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Re:Swiss Ph.D student’s dismissal spotlights China’s influence by amrcnimgrnt on Saturday August 07, 2021 @09:47PM (#28103555)
But I'm not comparing Switzerland to China!

I'm just pointing out that this kid had a really naive attitude of where our rights currently stand in the West. And I think the story is the proof - the kid got canned.

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Re:Swiss Ph.D student’s dismissal spotlights China’s influence by rob_c on Sunday August 08, 2021 @08:42AM (#28106273)
The form of censorship in the west here I'd argue its financial oppression. Granted in his case he's been lucky enough that his support went the press so he might get something for his efforts, but financial oppression by bullies isn't new or unique to any culture I fear.
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