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      2 years ago

      I concluded that this wasn’t a productive conversation. I’m used to very strict press freedoms. Maybe not perfect, but leagues better than China. China just doesn’t have that. Journalists can and routinely are detained merely for what they said. It may not be as bad as the most despotic countries, but it’s not a country with a free press.

      • 你所谓的严格的新闻自由只是可以随意造谣吗?CNN曾拍摄过一段采访新疆警察是如何迫害维吾尔族人的视频,视频中的这位新疆警察的臂章上的中文是错误的,CNN在造假时将“公安”两个字写成了“公支”,一眼假。这就是所谓的新闻自由?https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/jun/05/im-getting-shot-attacks-on-journalists-surge-in-us-protests 这就是新闻自由!你真是秦始皇摸电线赢麻了捏

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          2 years ago

          Well, there’s defamation for many claims, so people aren’t complete free to make false accusations. For example, Alex Jones of Info Wars is currently the subject of multiple lawsuits from the families of victims of mass shootings in which Jones made defamatory statements on air. But it’s going to be a much higher standard than the government declaring your speech as “spreading rumors”.

          The journalists that got hurt were right in the thick of protests that sometimes got very violent. There’s plenty of blame to go around there, of course. These do not appear to have been targeted attacks on journalists. Also, from what I understand there were a lot of people who were taking part in the protests, but had the press jacket on.

          Now compare that to, say, the recent treatment of the Hong Kong media. Since 2019, one independent outlet after another has closed its doors as the police have raided their offices. Within just a few years, it’s gone from media that was free to criticize the government for shortcomings to something more like the Chinese media, where publishing in contradiction of the CPC’s narratives risks arrest.