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Russia wants to censor internet? Bad!

Chinese firewall? Evil!

Trump says he wants to censor internet? Bad!

The biggest sites on the internet want to ban right wing speech? Hurr durr, just make your own ISP idiot.

NZ government wants to censor internet? No that's different for reasons.

Australia blocks 4chan? Who cares, only incels go there anyway.

@matrix it's very common for people, even the most virtue-signalious ones, to not care about anything unless it affects them personally or they can use it to promote their own agenda.
@sampo @matrix i think it's also not realization one thing is a signal for another. Yeah, block one website, block another, it's all cool, but not many realize it's a sign of censorship.

@matrix I can kind of make a non-ideological difference between corporate sites and governments but the rest is just all around bad.

@matrix please note it was Sajid Javid of
Home Secretary of the United Kingdom who motioned the worldwide censorship:
https://archive.is/F1xby
They're telling you ECHELON is quite responsible for this charade.
@thatbrickster
@matrix I more or less agree. keep the tubes free, even if the endpoints have to go for whatever reason (and I have no love for 8chan)
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