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Is there some (longer) article with more context in it? I would like to read more about it. Anyway, this is why free speech is important.
by js8 10y ago
Is there some (longer) article with more context in it? I would like to read more about it.
Anyway, this is why free speech is important.
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- peteretep 10y agoFree speech is the government not officially taking action against you for your speech. This was just run-of-the-mill intimidation by those in power, of a free media. Really how far away is this from putting journalists in cages and having your audience shout at them at campaign rallies?
- inimino 10y agoIt is an issue of free speech and freedom of the press. I'm not sure why every time anyone mentions free speech these days someone is always ready to argue the definition. Whether it is "official" or not is totally irrelevant as the unofficial policy is the one that matters and everyone in China understands that.
- stefantalpalaru 10y ago> Free speech is the government not officially taking action against you for your speech. It's much more than that. From the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: > Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
- noobermin 10y agoWhy is this being downvoted? How is it when X person chills the press is bad but when Y person I like does it, it's okay?
- peteretep 10y agoBecause everyone is nitpicking the first statement and not reading the second.
- mason240 10y agoYou are confusing the concept of "Free speech" with the American First Amendment.