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That's debatable but either way doesn't make it right. It's like everyone has decided they'll join the #1 oppressor of free speech in order to protest their own loss of free speech? I don't see how that makes any sense. If rednote becomes popular enough it will be covered by the same act that is allowing the ban of tictok. If people want to protest American companies then they should stop using them, and I mean completely. Nothing will speak louder than a missing user base.
Repression of hate speech is objectively a good thing. “Free speech” in our society is a dog whistle for allowing far right to spread conspiracy and lies without any repercussions. Western media heavily suppresses speech that cuts against their interests. Say “free luigi” on Facebook or instagram and see what happens. Say “free Palestine” on instagram and see what happens. Yet, literal fascists are allowed to (and even further spread by people like musk) to spread antisemitic conspiracies and objectively false and misleading pseudoscience without issue. Hundreds of left leaning journalists were banned on X in one day, for nothing more than being ideologically opposite to Elon Musk.
Put simply, the illusion of “freedom of speech” in the west is just that, an illusion. China does not suppress the majority of speech, they just don’t allow ideologues to sew conflict and falsehoods.
You are confusing free speech with private areas. You can absolutely go to the courthouse and scream "free luigi" All day long. You can't do it in someone else's business. Online spaces are someone else's business. Go to China and scream " free tiawan" and see what happens.
Then let’s talk about the brutal assault and suppression of the pro Palestinian protests last summer. On public property, assaulted by agents of the state, hundreds arrested and charged with felonies for speaking their mind, threatened constantly by public officials, laws made to criminalize criticism of the client state of Israel. Or the hundreds of journalists, veterans, and protestors assaulted for daring to speak out against the current regime during press conferences and rallies. Just today, multiple journalists were assaulted during a press conference with Blinken.
97% peaceful and lawful.
US Student Pro-Palestine Demonstrations Remain Overwhelmingly Peaceful | ACLED Insight https://search.app/BTA3GqYzmYoyHsfZ7
Any other agendas you want to push because you are factually wrong about this one.
Yes indeed, the protests were peaceful. The violence against the protests by police and Zionists wasn’t though. In my own state, hundreds of protestors were arrested and charged with felony RICO law violations for soliciting donations to maintain the protest.
That's not a rico law violation...
I agree, but it didn’t prevent them being charged with it, which got them off the campus and made them get legal help and bail money until eventually the charges were dropped. It was a transparent effort to charge them with anything/something heavy and scary just to get them off the street and into the legal system, sapping their time and energy.
You have lied about chinese and american child labor. You have lied about the amount of violent protests. You have lied about rico charges. Is there anything you say that's factually truthful? Is this what china supporters do?
Show me where a protestor was charged with RICO. That did not happen.