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Re:Singapore to regulate high traffic websites that report o... by patrickaljord on Tuesday May 28, 2013 @06:19PM (#5783246)
> 1) Freedom is not a necessary condition for economic prosperity (which undermines a lot of American rhetoric of the last 50 years);

As explained in another comment, this is not what the American rhetoric claims. It's rather the other way around, economic freedom is a requirement for political freedom and indeed, China has improved politically since it's opened economically though they still have a long way.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5782450

Re:Singapore to regulate high traffic websites that report o... by rayiner on Tuesday May 28, 2013 @06:28PM (#5783290)
The American narrative has always been more George W. Bush than Milton Friedman.