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A comment on One App – Two Worlds: This Is TikTok in Russia and Ukraine. Parent comment

Re:One App – Two Worlds: This Is TikTok in Russia and Ukraine by toxik on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @10:06AM (#30919134)
You are parroting an old tired “it’s only protected speech when it’s the government meddling”, and to that I ask, did you not read the part where TikTok is doing this because the Russian government decided to jail people over “fake news”? Does this not constitute a textbook violation of the freedom of speech?
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Re:One App – Two Worlds: This Is TikTok in Russia and Ukraine by bbarn on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @10:33AM (#30919522)
What freedom of speech?

That freedom doesn't exist in two of the three countries involved here.

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Re:One App – Two Worlds: This Is TikTok in Russia and Ukraine by LightHugger on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @10:48AM (#30919743)
What is this reply? The complaint is that the freedom doesn't exist.

You seem to be implying that people just don't know, when it's exactly what they're talking about?

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Re:One App – Two Worlds: This Is TikTok in Russia and Ukraine by bbarn on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @01:53PM (#30922429)
"A textbook violation of the freedom of speech" assumes there is a "textbook" to violate.

There isn't one at all here, so why is there any debate at all on the freedom of speech being violated?

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