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Right he’s just closing down one of the “public squares” then saying “of course you can talk on these other less popular public squares!” This is mind boggling
by wincy 4y ago
Right he’s just closing down one of the “public squares” then saying “of course you can talk on these other less popular public squares!”
This is mind boggling that every single person on HN isn’t terrified of this.
Surely most of us were around in the 2000s when the Bush Administration demonized people who spoke against the war? Aren’t we the same people who were railing against censorship then? What HAPPENED to that community I grew up with that wouldn’t put up with censorship, who held free speech as the backbone of democracy? Where are all of those people now?
I have a few hunches, and I’m not sure I’d like to know the answer.
- JumpCrisscross 4y ago> he’s just closing down one of the “public squares” then saying “of course you can talk on these other less popular public squares Let’s be real. Nobody is closing anything down. This is a bizarre game of brinksmanship between D.C. and Beijing that ends in one place: divestiture. The only reason it’s getting so much attention is because the object of concern is a social media property, not e.g. a port asset or power plant.