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by throwaway11460 760 days ago
I am not suggesting anything, I am just telling you what would happen. Don't go near them spewing bullshit like that.

Consider that even getting a fair hearing at a court is a privilege to them. They grew up in a world where they said the wrong thing to the wrong person (not even a crime or anything morally/ethically wrong, or even offensive at all) and it affected three generations of their family with no end in sight if the USSR didn't collapse. No courts involved - the municipal Party Committee's opinion was enough to put my grandfather in prison for years. That's censorship, not some ban from a single inconsequential private website with million alternatives.

You know what upsets me about this? When people use words like censorship to advocate for a world more like it was before 1989. Not wanting to enter into a business relationship with somebody is not censorship, it's freedom.

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So, given that you propose violence as a viable solution, I hope your relatives (and you, for that matter) are not imigrants in a country I visit. Just because you had a unhappy past does not mean you can and should drag your bullshit behaviour with you into civilized countries.
I didn't propose any solution, much less viable. I told you what the reaction of people who experienced actual censorship would be, nothing else. I don't see it as reasonable, but people sometimes don't behave reasonably when somebody tells them bullshit like that with a straight face.