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Countless thousands of people in China are blacklisted, harassed, intimidated and locked up merely for what they say or because of the job they do. Nineteen years after the Tiananmen massacre, six dissident voices explain why their battle for freedom of speech must continue.

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raza91 month, 2 weeks ago

The greatest obstacle to big government, authoritarian government, is the right of Free Speech.
Sadly, there has been complicity from American institutions.
http://www.davekopel.org/Media/RMN/2005/U.S.-We...
Yahoo!, Google, Microsoft complicit in China's stranglehold on information
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  svensun1 month, 1 week ago
  
  It seems in this case, WE AGREE!
  I believe what these companies have done is not just immoral and unjust, but ILLEGAL under American law, and the Bush Administration is complicit in NOT ENFORCING this law. They aren't the first ones; but 'Clinton did it, too' does NOT EXCUSE THEIR INACTION, which in itself, is a form of action.
  I believe Edmund Burke's famous quote is quite apropos here:
  "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
  Why doesn't the Left join with the Right in attacking this abuse by the the Bush Administration, instead of the phony claims on made-up assaults of the Bill of Rights?
  Dave Kopel happens to be a libertarian, certainly not a leftist-statist. If you and he can agree, then why can't the Left and the Right unite against such obvious threats to liberty as high tech companies working with Communist China to regulate the internet?
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