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Comment by bayfullofrays | Hacker News Reader

This isn't totally bad. China has shown that it is possible to both offer an environment that fosters startups and online communities operating to their maximum creative potential while policing for things that incite hate, forms of bigotry, and ideas that create dangerous divisions. While China isn't perfect, I wouldn't mind if America was made less influential when it comes to the Internet.

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Those dangerous free speechers and their divisive "ideas". If only everyone just went along with the official Communist party positions, the world would obviously be a much more peaceful and orderly place.

Hey, at least they are trying to suppress democracy more proactively now, so they don't have to mow down pro-democracy protesters with guns and run over them with takes and make corpse pancakes.

> things that incite hate, forms of bigotry, and ideas that create dangerous divisions

Is that a euphemism for “anything the Communist party dislikes”?

A clear and present danger. Youth are being exposed and educated to a much higher level today. They know full well the uselessness of such dogma and warped thinking.

>Is that a euphemism for “anything the Communist party dislikes”?

You're right in the sense that anything censored in china is tautologically the things the communist party doesn't like.

But the language you're keying into is just the astroturfer borrowing the language that Silicon Valley progressives use to push for their own flavor of "it's OK when we do it" internet censorship.

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