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And just 20 years before that the Japanese internment camps happened.
It seems that there are some massive sources of wealth for tech companies, such as search, social networks, and e-commerce companies. In Europe, these have all been supplanted by Google, Facebook, and Amazon respectively.
In China, on the other hand, these companies were free to grow and establish their own nexuses of tech talent. As a result, China is the closest to having the Silicon Valley of <x>.
Perhaps Europe should take a page from China's (and the US now, I suppose) playbook?
Obviously, China silences dissenters. However, most of the comments in this thread probably wouldn't even be removed.
Take this study (cited 1600 times) from Harvard:
https://gking.harvard.edu/publications/how-censorship-china-...