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If anyone is interested in what that means, it appears to be China's version of "resisting arrest" and "assaulting an officer": a spurious, ill-defined charge w
by revolvingocelot 4y ago
If anyone is interested in what that means, it appears to be China's version of "resisting arrest" and "assaulting an officer": a spurious, ill-defined charge with which the inconvenient could be bludgeoned.
What the parent comment means by referencing this phenomenon, which already has an Occidental analogue, is still unclear to me.
- refurb 4y agoIt's basically China's version of "free speech is dangerous". Whenever someone starts saying things the CCP doesn't like, they are "fomenting dissent". What people don't get is if you want to start censoring "dangerous speech" then you'd better have a perfect definition of what dangerous speech is. But there isn't one. So what ends up happening is you ban speech with good reason, set a precedent, then your political opponent takes power and starts banning speech as well.