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We now have our own "Great Firewall"
by ProAm 6y ago
We now have our own "Great Firewall"
- JumpCrisscross 6y ago> We now have our own "Great Firewall" I don’t see anything about content filtering. Just transport integrity. The closest we come to that is the prohibition on apps, but that’s still an ocean away from censoring text messages mentioning the Tiananmen massacre.
- komali2 6y agoOr arresting a Hong Kong democratic leader for "uttering seditious words" (exact phrasing of the CCP today).
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- tkel 6y agofyi in the "land of the free", people being mean to government agents are cited for sedition https://www.voiceofsandiego.org/topics/public-safety/sdpd-is-punishing-speech-using-a-102-year-old-city-law/ https://www.voiceofsandiego.org/topics/public-safety/sdpd-is...
- GaryNumanVevo 6y agoIt's fairly simple. Did the app you download have anti-American sentiment posted on it? Banned. It could have been Chinese propaganda after all. Same goes for video hosting, web hosting, etc.
- codemonkey-zeta 6y agoIsn't this why we have the legal system? Companies could sue the US government for that sort of thing? Or do you feel like the judicial arm of our government would not defend the rights of those companies? Or would the laws surrounding this plan be worded such that companies have no legal recourse? I still fail to understand this fear.
- dane-pgp 6y agoWould you invest in a disruptive new startup that made an app which allows individuals to communicate with end-to-end encryption, and had no restrictions on "anti-American" sentiment (meaning "anti- some particular political party" sentiment)? The startup might win the court case, but you might lose your money before the government gives up its appeals and injunctions.