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This is common knowledge. You can't send a picture of winnie the pooh without it being scanned first and deleted over the wire before being received.

People don't use WeChat to organise dissent against the government or for any kind of malicious or illegal activity. The intention is for well meaning folk to communicate and do business online.



Implying that dissent isn’t done by well meaning people.


World isn't binary like you frame it to be.


Ironically, by implying that all "dissent against the government" is not done by well-meaning people, you're the one portraying the world as binary.

Political dissent, including protests, demonstrations, boycotts, sit-ins, and marches, have contributed to the advancement of society on many occasions.

https://books.google.com/books?id=0yvPaXt3lyoC

The dissenters who galvanized these reforms were certainly well-meaning.


Implying that censorship is only used to suppress malicious or illegal activity.


World isn't binary like you frame it to be.


> The intention is for well meaning folk to communicate and do business online.

You can be a well meaning normal person and still expect to receive information about what your country is doing wrong.

Applying this as the China standard and saying its norm is being complicit.

The entire difference is the CCP is using this information to fuel its propaganda that it uses to suppress its people's freedom.

Hong Kong seems to want to keep their freedom and does not accept China as the normal.

In the western world you can be critical of your government all you want and the norm is that nothing is censored.

I mean, even Snowden was allowed to publish his book, even though he didn't get to keep the proceeds.

Do you think the CCP would have allowed that at all?

Freedom dies when it's not protected.




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