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by elken 2654 days ago
Agreed. From their actions in the last couple of days it would appear these governments can hardly take the moral high ground.

I'm sure I'll get downvoted for discounting China's concentration camps and social credit programs but it would seem we aren't exactly the bastion of freedom we like to portray.

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They never could, particularly not Germany or the UK.

But the US also isn't as innocent as many love to pretend when talking about "state censorship", not even acknowledging how the US doesn't need to "state censor" but merely applies soft-pressure to US companies to do the censoring for them [0].

[0] http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/the-cleaners/