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And it is not blocked in Hong Kong! Still one country, two rules...
And even when they blocked Bloomberg, the articles could still be read by anyone in China with a Bloomberg terminal..
It happens in pockets of the US, too: Jerry Falwell's conservative Liberty University did a very similar thing. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/campus-overload/post/fal... EDIT: mircocosm was a poor word choice
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I was only motivated to read the original article after I saw it had been blocked.
And it is not blocked in Hong Kong! Still one country, two rules...
We have our own legal, visa, financial, and political system.
Although Beijing occasionally steers the political system, censorship of any kind usually ends up in protest.
I can't imagine what would happen if they tried to do censor the internet here.
It happens in pockets of the US, too: Jerry Falwell's conservative Liberty University did a very similar thing. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/campus-overload/post/fal... EDIT: mircocosm was a poor word choice
FIRE and the Virginia ACLU both agree with Liberty's right to do so: http://thefire.org/article/10717.html
You are, of course, free to criticize LU for its policies.
It happens in pockets of the US, too: Jerry Falwell's conservative Liberty University did a very similar thing. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/campus-overload/post/fal... EDIT: mircocosm was a poor word choice
Liberty University is in no way a "microcosm of the US". If anything, it is a Christian version of the Islamic Republic, hidden in Virginia.
It happens in pockets of the US, too: Jerry Falwell's conservative Liberty University did a very similar thing. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/campus-overload/post/fal... EDIT: mircocosm was a poor word choice
That's like a coffee shop blocking some domain on their WiFi -- not even remotely similar to state censorship.
Well, at least we know the article is telling the truth now.
Well, at least we know the article is telling the truth now.
B (Admission of guilt) -> A (Truth) is not the same as A -> B.
It happens in pockets of the US, too: Jerry Falwell's conservative Liberty University did a very similar thing. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/campus-overload/post/fal... EDIT: mircocosm was a poor word choice
Liberty is a private university, and its students choose to attend knowing full-well its policies. (And it blocks a lot more than WaPo.) FIRE and the Virginia ACLU both agree with Liberty's right to do so: http://thefire.org/article/10717.html You are, of course, free to criticize LU for its policies.