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Re:Russia to restrict Facebook access for 'censoring' its media by trasz on Friday February 25, 2022 @02:52PM (#30471558)
> In repressive regimes there is no freedom to protest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protest_and_dissent_in_China

"The number of annual protests has grown steadily since the early 1990s, from approximately 8,700 "mass group incidents" in 1993[1] to over 87,000 in 2005."

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Re:Russia to restrict Facebook access for 'censoring' its media by toxik on Friday February 25, 2022 @03:19PM (#30471889)
You have left out the part of that article that says that these protests are only about local issues and do not worry or concern the CCP.
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Re:Russia to restrict Facebook access for 'censoring' its media by reaperducer on Friday February 25, 2022 @03:13PM (#30471818)
Those numbers are 17 years old. I think we need newer data than that to come to a conclusion.

The number of protests in Hong Kong has plummeted in the last two years. Even annual events have been cancelled because of the new laws that can land people in jail for even being near a protest site, or a historically/politically significant location at the wrong time.

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