> Many Chinese believer of "Freedom of Speech" was shattered after seen previous POTUS account vanishes from Twitter. That's delusional thinking on their part

> Many Chinese believer of "Freedom of Speech" was shattered after seen previous POTUS account vanishes from Twitter. That's delusional thinking on their part then. There's obviously an enormous difference. Which is why we're able to freely have this conversation on HN. In China it's a blanket national policy. There is zero free speech in China, as determined by the government. You are not free to set up your own service, blog, site, etc. to skirt that. Trump is a billionaire and is free to start his own social platform, which has been discussed by his camp on multiple occasions since the coordinated social media bans. He has drastically more resources than he needs to launch a platform to push his voice in any way he sees fit. Trump wasn't censored by the US Government. Private social media companies decided they disagreed with how he was behaving and or what he was saying. As someone that isn't a billionaire, before the day is out, with an hour of time, I could choose from any number of dozens of hosts and push a new communication platform out to the world, whether a blog or other. Or just sign up for Substack and say what I think there. I can use it to rant endlessly about politicians, government, ideology, Covid, nearly anything I see fit to say. You can do none of that in China. The context could hardly be any more different when it comes to speech, between the US and China.