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That may be what they are doing.

And let us be clear - it is bad enough when the major tech companies gladly apply CCP or RUS filtering within those territories.

The CCP is the friend of no one but themselves, and they are global expansionists. The RUS govt is an international criminal syndicate masquerading as a govt.

If the tech companies start applying those same CCP/RUS standards globally, then the response should be to shut off those countries from the internet.

>>toss1+(OP)
Our companies are more powerful than our governments right now. They censor what they want when they want on behalf of their world view and government bidding.

>>foxhop+uV
Yup, and yet here they are kowtowing to the world's authoritarian governments, just for a few dollars.

They're happy to sellout their users, and everyone's freedoms for a few more dollars this quarter.

We need to stop respecting that like it is an accomplishment.

Yet the downvotes show that people even hear fail to see the paradox of intolerance.

There is one thing that a tolerant society cannot tolerate - intolerance. If intolerance is allowed, it will drive out all tolerance. So it must be stamped out.

Since China is clearly not tolerating free speech on the Internet, it should lose it's access to the internet. Short of that step, we will soon see that the Internet is run by CCP's rules.

(&ya, I hear all the arguments about 'engagement', avoiding balkanization of the internet, etc. - they've all been proven false - tolerating authoritarianism is the worst failure)