> What a laughable notion. Utter the words "national security" and all your checks and balances go right out the window. What kind of false equivalency bullshi

> What a laughable notion. Utter the words "national security" and all your checks and balances go right out the window. What kind of false equivalency bullshit is this? In China, you utter the words "national security" and newspapers get shut down by the police: https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/why-beijing-shut-down-hong-kongs-leading-pro-democracy-newspaper https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/why-beijing-shu.... Publish the wrong kind of books and they'll kidnap you and put you in prison (even if you have a foreign citizenship, which you'll conveniently "voluntarily renounce" in custody): https://www.npr.org/2020/02/25/809163417/hong-kong-bookseller-sentenced-by-china-to-10-years-for-passing-intelligence https://www.npr.org/2020/02/25/809163417/hong-kong-bookselle....