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Internet being global and free brings peace and understanding to the world, using it as a weapon is to accept defeat to the totalitarian regimes of yesteryear.

Let the $mostly_defunct_state die off with the rest of them without succumbing to their playbook.

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> Internet being global and free brings peace and understanding to the world

Do you think that worked with China?

China's internet is neither global nor free (and on the flip side, the global and free (mostly-free?) internet of the world is not generally accessible in China. That's not a particularly strong argument against the GP's point.

Internet censorship being self-inflicted by China hints at who benefits from censorship, and it isn't democracies.

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