[hker]

> They just have a better marketing / PR department about it.

The fact that opposing views could be brought into public discourse, not silenced or censored in QQ or Weibo, makes a huge difference.

It is not just marketing or PR. It is allowing the civil society to take part in public discourse, much like the recent debate on censoring Donald Trump.

> if you speak against this in the US, you’ll commit suicide

Not to the same extent in China, far from it.

[bmitc]

Donal Trump was not censored. He violated policy.

[esyir]

Sure, the Uighurs are just violating China's policy too.

[bmitc]

That is completely unrelated.