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Re:Tech Bosses Are Letting Dictators Censor What Americans See by giantrobot on Friday April 21, 2023 @12:55PM (#35656624)
Basing laws off laws of another country isn't national continuity. The British didn't just accept the Declaration of Independence and remove their agents from the US. The CCP wasn't formally recognized by the imperial government as the new government of China. There's no continuity of government in either case.
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Re:Tech Bosses Are Letting Dictators Censor What Americans See by shadowgovt on Friday April 21, 2023 @01:16PM (#35656972)
It really depends on how one defines "nation" (which is kind of a modern and made-up concept).
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Re:Tech Bosses Are Letting Dictators Censor What Americans See by clouddrover on Friday April 21, 2023 @08:07PM (#35661893)
> "nation" (which is kind of a modern and made-up concept).

It isn't. Learn your history.

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Re:Tech Bosses Are Letting Dictators Censor What Americans See by shadowgovt on Friday April 21, 2023 @08:22PM (#35661999)
I have, I recommend "Imagined Communities," by Benedict Anderson.
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Re:Tech Bosses Are Letting Dictators Censor What Americans See by clouddrover on Friday April 21, 2023 @11:26PM (#35663084)
I said history, not pseudo-intellectual pontificating theories of politics.
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Re:Tech Bosses Are Letting Dictators Censor What Americans See by shadowgovt on Friday April 21, 2023 @11:29PM (#35663098)
"Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson (August 26, 1936 – December 13, 2015) was an Anglo-Irish political scientist and historian who lived and taught in the United States." ~ (guess the source)

With respect, between the work of a Cornell professor and an internet rando, I'm going to defer to the professor on the topic the professor wrote on.

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Re:Tech Bosses Are Letting Dictators Censor What Americans See by clouddrover on Saturday April 22, 2023 @12:15AM (#35663277)
I said defer to history, not me.
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Re:Tech Bosses Are Letting Dictators Censor What Americans See by giantrobot on Friday April 21, 2023 @09:28PM (#35662418)
The treaty of Westphalia would have a word about "modern".
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