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No, China does both. US just doesn't have the legal ability to pursue one of the two strategies you mentioned.


While of course the speech freedom is pretty scarce in China, there are many things that the USG do without the legal ability.

Also, the massive attempt to deplatform Trump supporters also significant weakened my belief in the US's speech freedom. I don't care if this was done by the USG or private companies, but it worked, very effectively, Parler was gone in the same way as Twitter get GFWed in China. I was shocked how Chinese this was. As a Chinese and for personal experiences, I hate Trump and the red-necks to the deepest, but I would support their right for emitting their sound.


Trump used twitter to incite violence and insurrection, which is not protected by the first amendment.

It would be better to determine this through the courts rather than twitter, but twitter has every right to ban trolls, spammers, and politicians calling for violent action


The same would be also applicable, if stretched a little bit, to protests and people organizing them in China. "Weibo has every right to ban trolls, spammers, and politicians calling for violent action" (Weibo is the Chinese Twitter equivalent)

We should not have double standard just because the USG is a something you like and CPC is not.


Trump can start his own platform. He did. People are free to join it.

It's a joke to think getting 'deplatformed' in China means you can keep trying. Test the CCP and you and your family might get a visit.


Then what happened to Parler?

Certainly we all know in China there is little speech freedom, I don't need to compare to it. (And I did test it and my family well survived till now)

What I was saying is what happened to Trump's supporters seriously damaged my belief in US's ideology.


What happened to it? Looks like you can still sign up and participate.



wow thats cool they’re still up and running despite getting deplatformed.

I don’t think I’ll use the service but I’m glad they can still exercise their first amendment rights


I'm not sure what your sarcasm is about.

They did managed to restore access after some struggling. Just like Chinese struggle to develop and deploy Shadowsocks to reach Wikipedia.


There's a pretty big difference between shadowsocks and parler.com




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