Comment Re:Misrepresentation (Score 2) 118
>Why does China need to censor speech? Because of Tiananmen Square incident! Before June 4, 1989, China was opening up steadily in both economy and political system. Yet the reward of that effort was the massive protest in Tiananmen that forced the government to forcible crackdown which subsequently led to major international sanction against then fragile Chinese economy. Tragedy of such magnitude must not be repeated. If another massive protest were to break out, the Chinese government could not afford (**) to crack down again because the USA is watching. Hey the US itself cannot avoid such massive protest ad its action is to open fire on the first days to suppress the riots. And it is guarantee that nobody in the world can do a thing to sanction the US. That's the key difference between US and China. So what can China do to avoid cornering itself? The only logical choice is that contain any serious speech that could incite social unrest. And the only way to achieve that is through a strict enough censorship regimen.
(**) This can be shown during the 2019 Hong Kong riot: the Hong Kong police didn't kill a single rioter in the half year long protest; if that happened, much much severe sanctions would be imposed by the US and Europe amid heighten geopolitical competition between the two superpowers.
Yes, the CCP was the real victim of the Tiananmen massacre. The government of China didn't want to crackdown violently on the civil rights protest. What happened wasn't the fault, of the government, it was the citizens at the protest made them do it. That's akin saying the Civil Rights Act was the wrong outcome of the protests and riots and violence that happened in America leading up to it. It wasn't the government that wanted to abuse black citizens, they were forced to do it. If they has just followed the law instead of causing such civil unrest; I guess all those protesters that were abused and mistreated by the US government agents had it coming, right? I'm glad your here to set everyone straight.