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by rsynnott 1992 days ago
This seems backward. The government has no business censoring the Chinese embassy. However, the embassy has no particular right to force platforms to disseminate its propaganda.

Honestly, this sort of action just seems like a return to the status quo; you can say what you want, and people who read a lot of embassy press releases might see it, but good luck finding a newspaper who’ll cooperate if it’s abhorrent stuff like this.