[Cryptography] US contemplating its p0wn Great FireWall for 5G

[Rui Paulo]

On Mon, 2018-01-29 at 10:49 +0800, jamesd at echeque.com wrote:
> On 29/01/2018 09:19, Henry Baker wrote:
> > The Information Domain is a Key Area of Competition
> > 
> > Goal: A network that reflects our principles
> > * Rule of Law
> > * Freedom of Speech
> > * Freedom of Religion
> > * Fair and Reciprocal Markets
> > 
> > ---
> > 
> > Networks are the Dominant Competition Space
> > 
> > China is the Dominant Competitor
> > * China has achieved a dominant position in the manufacture and
> > operation of network infrastructure
> > * China is the dominant malicious actor in the Information Domain
> 
> Not seeing a whole lot of freedom of speech on the US
> internet.  Twitter 
> censors "nazis" and "racists" and "sexists" and "trolls"
> 
> Google and Snopes promote fake news and suppress news and evidence
> that 
> contradicts fake news.
> 
> Facebook does both.
> 
> On the whole, Chinese overt and official censorship is more free
> than 
> our officially unofficial censorship.  Knowing what you are forbidden
> to 
> say is a breath of fresh air compared to being forbidden to know
> what 
> you are forbidden to say.
> 
> Further, Chinese overt and official censorship does not gaslight us
> with 
> a fake consensus the way Google's promotion of fake news and fake 
> consensus does.  The Chinese Party tells us that the party view is
> X, 
> and you will agree if you know what is good for you, Google tells us 
> that everyone's view is X, and if you disagree you must be ignorant, 
> stupid, crazy, and evil.
> 
> If you want to beat the officially regulated Chinese internet, need
> to 
> beat it with freedom and truth, not with an officially unofficially 
> regulated internet.

You're joking, right?

If you don't like Google/FB/Twitter/etc. "censorship" you can always go some place else and say what you want.  The white supremacists have been doing that for a while.
Meanwhile, in China, you can't do that.

-- 
Rui Paulo