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Exactly the same? So, have you been been dragged away to be tortured and murdered yet for offering this criticism?
Hmm, I guess it’s not exactly the same.
Instead, your opinions are published and can be openly discussed. People can decide for themselves if they agree or disagree with you, and they also won’t be dragged away to be tortured and murdered if they express support for you.
That’s pretty different, don’t you think?
I think those differences really do matter.
Ai Weiwei lived in China most of his life, and was openly critical of the government there. He has been imprisoned before. In his family history, one of his parents was internally exiled. This is a brave person who knows a few things from personal experience and deserves some respect and consideration, even if you disagree.
Lmao, like you know better than him what is oppression. Look the press rights etc. You are free to think that you are free and consume tho
It’s like Julian Assange is memory-holed already.
For real hey,
Snowden, meanings, Aaron Schwartz (rip)And then there are those who don’t get whacked or politically persecuted, only cancelled. The people who got Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction wrong are still prominent today, while those who got it right have never worked in the industry again, like Chris Hedges and Phil Donahue.
Like, of course US journalists toe the party line: you get promoted for doing it and you get permabanned like Chris Hedges if you question it.
Same in France,
Investigation journalist or activists jailed or in justice for nothing except emarassing the power and the business.Cf to start,
Reflet.info, laquadrature.net
Or even the cases of Steven Donziger or the stuff Ralph Nader went through in his heyday.
The comment he was canceled for was for saying that the West has a cultural sense of guilt around the historically widespread oppression of Jewish people (which is true), and that the US and Israel are closely financially linked (which is true). So yah, I think he has cause for an accusation of censorship.
Mao’s government caused the death of 40-80 million people, so I wouldn’t say it’s the exact same as having your “Jews control the media” post deleted.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Political censorship in the West today is “exactly the same” as it was in China under its ruthless communist leader Mao Zedong, exiled artist Ai Weiwei has told Sky News.
The 66-year-old dissident told Sky News’ Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips that “society becomes so timid, to really avoid any kind of questioning or argument”.
He was responding to a question about the cancellation of his exhibition by the Lisson Gallery in London in November following comments on social media referencing the Israel-Hamas conflict.
He also argued the Jewish community had a significant influence in the media, finance and culture in the US, and that America’s $3bn (£2.45bn) annual military aid to Israel meant the two countries had a “shared destiny”.
Criticising the suspension of two New York University professors for comments related to Gaza, Ai said: "This is really like a cultural revolution, which is really trying to destroy anybody who have different attitudes, not even a clear opinion.
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