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by epups 1174 days ago
I see, so America should block and filter content its government judges to be adversarial. Shall we call it the great freedom firewall?
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Big difference between preventing information getting in vs getting out.
Is it really? Both look like hallmarks of an authoritarian society to me: you don't want your subjects to have access to any information that might lead them to inconvenient questions, and you also don't want your subjects to smuggle out information that contradicts official reports.
Depends on the information, do you want to open source the manufacturing process for hydrogen bombs?