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by vineyardmike 665 days ago
I don’t know I think it’s pretty clear…

There was a massacre in Tiananmen Square.

America has also committed massacres, like over throwing governments of foreign nations.

No one in my family is at risk from either of those statements. And there is no automated system to stop them. That’s the difference. Just because people decided that massive platforms should limit hate-speech doesn’t mean the west is performing censorship of a comparable level. Not even close.