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Why wouldn't china fight against "hate" speech?

I find it hilarious that the hypocritical news industry and the leftists mock china for their censorship while they themselves advocate for censorship in the US.

Of course both the chinese government and our leftists use the same condescending patronizing authoritarian excuse - "it's for our own good".

No thanks. Wish all the leftists in the US would go to china - their paradise.

And of course hollywood and most of our corporations encourage leftist censorship because they want access to the chinese market. What better way to win the hearts and minds of the chinese government than to show how well they censor at home.

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JOkes on you. Freedom of speech is categorized as "hate speech" in China.

Literally the first sentence on this page describe the censored content as "sensational, vulgar or politically harmful content."

Your argument that this is the same as the desire for blocking legitimate hate speech in the US is simply political inflammation. It's not at all the same. Please stop.

There is no such thing as "legitimate hate speech" in the US, only speech which is likely to incite imminent lawless action (Brandenburg v Ohio). I'm sorry you either live in a country which will throw you in jail for words, or have been mis-educated about US law and the freedom of speech.

I'm sure the people who think they can determine for the rest of us what is "legitimate" hate speech, find it "sensational, vulgar or politically harmful content."

I find your assertion that hate speech be suppressed to be politically harmful.

> Literally the first sentence on this page describe the censored content as "sensational, vulgar or politically harmful content."

I know. Hate speech. Also, isn't that the same list that social media like facebook, reddit, etc use to censor now because leftists demanded it?

> Your argument that this is the same as the desire for blocking legitimate hate speech in the US is simply political inflammation

Wait. So who determines what is hate speech? You?

> It's not at all the same. Please stop.

It is the same. So please stop. Free speech doesn't exist to protect speech you agree with. It exists to protect speech you disagree with. It exists to protect hate speech.

Everything is hate speech if you actually bother to think about it. Is LGBT speech hate speech to muslims? What about speech against flat earthers? If I say that the earth is round, is that hate speech?

"Hate speech" is just an excuse used by tyrannical puritans to justify censorship speech they don't like.

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Its even worse than that, it is used to justify censorship of speech that interferes with profits

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