You say that with the moral presumption that “censorship is bad”, when in reality it is just a tool. Every single country does it, there is no value in the way you are treating it. The US wanting to ban TikTok falls into the same category. If Brasil, my country, decides to ban twitter in the coming days because Elon is trying to mess with us by not banning users that are breaking the law, it would be censorship, but it would also also be sending a message to Musk and the US that we won’t accept this kind of shit.
Besides that, like the person you’re replying to already said, VPNs are very common in China, the government does not give a fuck if you want to access the parts of the internet that are banned there.
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You say that with the moral presumption that “censorship is bad”, when in reality it is just a tool. Every single country does it, there is no value in the way you are treating it. The US wanting to ban TikTok falls into the same category. If Brasil, my country, decides to ban twitter in the coming days because Elon is trying to mess with us by not banning users that are breaking the law, it would be censorship, but it would also also be sending a message to Musk and the US that we won’t accept this kind of shit.
Besides that, like the person you’re replying to already said, VPNs are very common in China, the government does not give a fuck if you want to access the parts of the internet that are banned there.