[2bitencryption]

"Self-censorship" is much scarier to me than the "traditional" censorship.

It's terrible when a government takes away your voice. But it's so much worse when people do it voluntarily to avoid the consequences.

(in this case, of course Leica is a business that doesn't want to lose a market with billions of people, but still... Leicas have been used for a hundred years to expose this type of nonsense, and now they're doing this...)

[waiseristy]

If Leica wasn't run by a spineless board of directors then they would have the power to pursue principle instead of profit.

[plink]

Too bad no one supposes it worthwhile to form a backlash boycott against Leica's toadying stance with China.

[yrro]

“The Empire's got something worse than whips all right. It's got obedience. Whips in the soul. They obey anyone who tells them what to do. Freedom just means being told what to do by someone different.”

From Interesting Times by Terry Pratchett