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The London Review of Books: A History in Fonts and Covers(lrb.co.uk)
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by heraclius 7y ago
The PM’s response that he also believes in the rule of law is utterly facetious. The whole point of the campaign is to demand that media organisations should be free to report on more matters of concern to the public. The most logical way t
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by heraclius 7y ago
It’s trifling for Europe as a whole, as shown by the fact that Turkey managed to process them alone. For Turkey or course it is not trifling.
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by heraclius 7y ago
Feeling sympathy based on economic importance seems bizarre. The economic impact of the HK protests on North America will be fairly minimal. The only reason to feel sympathy, then, is that governments are attacking their own people. That is
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by heraclius 7y ago
On the Razakars etc.: the report is unimpeachable—Nehru commissioned the report but it besmirches his claim to have unified India relatively peacefully. And yes I acknowledged above that Pak is worse—10s of millions is probably a high figur
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by heraclius 7y ago
3.6mn is so trifling that Turkey can deal with it. Europe could too, with proper organisation; I hope that we face up to our responsibilities if Erdogan follows through—at least then something good would come of Turkey’s aggression against
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by heraclius 7y ago
I share the author’s concern about the spread of the party’s totalitarianism. But one should think very carefully about whether this sort of action is productive, and I do not see anything like the level of reflexion that would be sensible
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by heraclius 7y ago
I think this is an important concern. Two possible responses follow, though I don’t think that they are entirely adequate. First of all, it’s not obvious why we should only consider technical concerns—perhaps reduced performance is a price
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There are a couple of problems with this argument. The most important problem is that many people do not have documentation, but have lived in India for a very long time—since birth, in some cases—and think of themselves and live their live
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by heraclius 7y ago
Daesh in Iraq and Syria are or were indeed well-funded and equipped, especially after they seized most of the reserves at the Mosul branch of the central bank. But I’m a bit confused as to how they’d manage to get substantial quantities of
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by heraclius 7y ago
As I noted in another comment, a majority of Hong Kong people did not identify themselves as “Chinese” when given the choice.⁰ It is rather implausible to claim that over three million Chinese people are “sponsored by black hands from Ameri
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by heraclius 7y ago
When asked, over 50% of Hong Kong people identified as “Hongkonger[s]”, even though various Chinese options were available.¹ Clearly then at least some non-protesters agree. 1. https://www.hkupop.hku.hk/english/popexpre
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The point isn’t that you know; it's that the vast majority of Hong Kong people know.
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It's unfortunate that the article doesn’t really mention bindings properly. As I see it, there are three main issues in modern bindings: - the use of inflexible hotmelt glue instead of flexible cold glue, - the death of signatures in w
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by heraclius 7y ago
Presumably this could be abused by the sort of people you’re trying to ban—most people wouldn’t do this sort of thing but bad faith reports are a problem on lots of social media sites.
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by heraclius 7y ago
The reason to send in the PLA would be to increase the level of violence, but there’s no reason to risk the backlash of sending them in when the HK police can do the job too—even if the Central People’s Government were to suddenly decide th
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Turkish government destroys more than 300k books(theguardian.com)
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by heraclius 7y ago
1. Counterexample: if I were to become an arms dealer I should have more money with which to educate my children. It is not narcissistic to give nonzero weight to the greater good. Inevitably one attempts to achieve that by implementing the
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by heraclius 7y ago
You’re right—I remember reading something from AsiaSentinel and getting there via the Wikipedia page on media censorship in HK, but it doesn’t link to anything any more. I should have checked. There are lots of stories on Google though so
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by heraclius 7y ago
I don’t think that there is much evidence of being excessively against China; I remember one incident suggesting the opposite.¹ There are certainly more establishment voices in the opinion pages than elsewhere, but they are on the liberal s
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by heraclius 7y ago
These sorts of organisations are less threatening than direct threats to family, which seem to have become the norm in forcing oversea Uighurs to go back.⁰ There isn’t really anything to stop this being applied to all Chinese. I don’t know
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by heraclius 7y ago
It’s quite plausible that he has friends in Pakistani intelligence; many journalists (and, in the past, Marxists) came from élite families. Tariq Ali’s interview in the London Review of Books is very illuminating.⁰ > Our house was ofte
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Isn’t the point of “standard censorship” the creation of an alternate reality?
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by heraclius 7y ago
Are these relatives Chinese or American? I hadn’t heard of this but would be interested to see.
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by heraclius 7y ago
A notice of no objection for Sunday’s march has been issued.¹ 1. https://www.police.gov.hk/info/doc/nono/POERN19007953E.pdf
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The problem with slippery slope arguments is that they need to show that the initial step taken somehow leads to the bad outcome mentioned. The obvious solution is to stay at 50k. I think that the political situation still would create a hu
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It’s certainly more comforting to imagine that Xi is losing all four wars. But I do not see effective opposition anywhere. The party has lost, hence the removal of term limits. There is no effective protest in Xinjiang or Tibet. HK will soo
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The restrictions placed upon the fellow are more “capricious” in the words of the judge than necessary. Perhaps all his communications need to be read. I somehow doubt that prevention of communications by his lawyers is an important part of
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They should be allowed to die. This is the reasonable position. Societal reaction to such action may change administrative policy, but it would do so through entirely proper political channels. The job of the civil servant is to implement p
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The SCMP seems to have been fairly vocal. There doesn’t seem to be anything that would stop the removal of all the critical journalists though, so I am somewhat confused.

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