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1. Christmas Personified as a Catgirl (moonman@shitposter.club)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Sep-2018 19:53:23 UTC Christmas Personified as a Catgirl
   Cory Doctorow says that filters don't work, but for people that just use the Internet for content consumption, they work perfectly fine, which is most people. They won't care or even know what is missing.
   
   Furthermore, these arguments always ignore China. it feels like nine out of ten times, China is already doing the thing that someone in the West says is impossible.
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   • KFist (kfist@pl.smuglo.li)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Sep-2018 22:06:18 UTC KFist

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     @moonman Better yet if they do acknowledge China it's always handwaved away by "it'll never happen here" handwaving, nevermind that the very corporations which designed and implemented China's Great Firewall are companies like Cisco which already control most of the world's internet infrastructure anyways.
     
     But it's okay, that kind of censorship Will Never Happen Here because it's only applied to evil nasty hate speech that hurts feelings.
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