Re:Naomi Wu and the Silence That Speaks Volumes
by jacquesm on Thursday August 17, 2023 @07:20PM
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Agreed that private entities not posting your tweets is not censorship.
But I will stick to my guns that there is much more at stake for people in China that don't behave in the way the government wants them to than just being censored. 'to stop doing something' is doing the heavy lifting in your comment and what the 'something' is can be limited to media expressions and then I would agree it is censorship. But this goes much further than that: it is not just what you write. It is also how you behave, and about what your ancestry is, which activities you are allowed to engage in (and which activities you have to engage in).
Censorship is just about expression. This is full-on coercion, anti-LGBT policy and racism. To make it explicit.
But I will stick to my guns that there is much more at stake for people in China that don't behave in the way the government wants them to than just being censored. 'to stop doing something' is doing the heavy lifting in your comment and what the 'something' is can be limited to media expressions and then I would agree it is censorship. But this goes much further than that: it is not just what you write. It is also how you behave, and about what your ancestry is, which activities you are allowed to engage in (and which activities you have to engage in).
Censorship is just about expression. This is full-on coercion, anti-LGBT policy and racism. To make it explicit.