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Apreche ◴[] No.45006225[source]
If they do it, I never want to hear any criticism of the great firewall of China from them ever again.
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xenotux ◴[] No.45009653[source]
The main difference between democracies and secular autocracies isn't that they have a vastly different approach to run-of-the-mill moral vices, such as prostitution or porn. It's that democracies tolerate a much wider spectrum of political opinions in public discourse and don't kill or imprison people who try to start an opposition party.

I think we can agree that the UK is moving in the wrong direction without drawing parallels to a place where dissidents are disappeared, both off the internet and in real life.

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tacticus ◴[] No.45010154[source]
Anti olympic posters got police raids. Plasticine action on your tshirt got arrests.
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1. Nursie ◴[] No.45010538[source]
> Plasticine action on your tshirt got arrests.

And then released when the mistake came to light. Not 'disappeared'.

The whole mess around the proscribed group is awful and seems like a massive overreaction - sure, you do not mess with a country's defence infrastructure. But the appropriate thing to do is arrest those involved and charge them with specific crimes, not misuse anti-terror legislation.

But lets not pretend people are being taken off the streets and made to disappear as they do in autocratic nations.