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That is a bogus argument. 1) Killing people is already a criminal act; 2) There are some people killing/beating people up with the slightest impetus. They will
by nanis 5y ago
That is a bogus argument. 1) Killing people is already a criminal act; 2) There are some people killing/beating people up with the slightest impetus. They will find that impetus whether Twitter allows people to discuss anything negative about the CCP; 3) Do you really want the speech of everyone to be regulated on the basis of the excuses used by psycho-killers?
Do you think Jodie Foster should have been banned from appearing in movies?
Update: And, just in time, this shows up[1,2]:
> Tech firm LinkedIn has censored the profile of US journalist Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian[3] in China, inviting her to “update” content without specifying what triggered the block.
Ah! She wrote a book about China[4].
Can't allow that! What if some random person becomes too critical of the CCP and assaults a random Asian-American in San Fransisco?[5]
Let the attribution games begin!
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28694431 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28694431
[2]: https://hongkongfp.com/2021/09/29/microsofts-linkedin-censors-us-journalist-over-china-content-makes-disturbing-offer-for-reinstatement/ https://hongkongfp.com/2021/09/29/microsofts-linkedin-censor...
[3]: https://www.axios.com/authors/baebrahimian/ https://www.axios.com/authors/baebrahimian/
[4]: https://twitter.com/BethanyAllenEbr/status/1443213045606588421 https://twitter.com/BethanyAllenEbr/status/14432130456065884...
[5]: https://abc7news.com/pacific-heights-woman-bitten-asian-attacked-sf-dragged-runner/10938084/ https://abc7news.com/pacific-heights-woman-bitten-asian-atta...