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You are allowed to write that in the Western world. Some people in USA and other countries live good lives by writing conspiracy theories about their own countr
by BugBrother 12y ago
You are allowed to write that in the Western world. Some people in USA and other countries live good lives by writing conspiracy theories about their own countries.
Try to do something similar in China or a similar autocratic state. It might be a problem to write that in Russia today, too. :-(
And hopefully, China will change. I've seen arguments that to get beyond a certain GNP/Capita, countries have to democratize (unless they have lots of oil, of course).
(What scares me, is the possibility with AI and language understanding -- to have a 1984 control state with a working free economy; future history as a foot trampling a face...)
- tedks 12y agoYou're allowed to write it, sure. But if you try to distribute it, it'll be deleted off of people's kindles, and they'll be added to the NSA watchlist. We have a control state with a mostly-working "free" economy.
- BugBrother 12y agoChomsky's books are deleted off Kindles by NSA?! :-) If not those, which books? "No Logo"? Books by islamists/KKK/Nazis/etc that preach violence? Mein Kampf? Can you give ten examples of authors? :-) Seriously, you can't look more like trolling. We are comparing with China -- there are numbers like a million(!) people doing censoring thrown around. If you really believe what you claim, go find articles written by journalists in China how they were censored while writing news, etc. Or web censoring. Or...
- tedks 12y agohttp://lmgtfy.com/?q=1984+kindle+mass+deletion http://lmgtfy.com/?q=1984+kindle+mass+deletion
- BugBrother 12y agoYou claim that one copyright deletion by Amazon of a 60+ years old book is as bad as the gigantic oppression of press etc in dictators? Even despite the angry public reaction, which hurt Amazon? At least be a competent troll, that was just sad. :-) :-(