Australia does the stupid thing
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Madotsuki_the_Dreamer — 3 months ago(December 16, 2025 08:53 AM)
Yes, the US bans CSAM. That's it. The US doesn't ban anything for being merely offensive. Meanwhile, in New Zealand:
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/.ㅤ — 3 months ago(December 16, 2025 09:06 AM)
Again, that's their choice. They get to decide what is acceptable within their own country. People have different opinions on what is acceptable.
Of those books at that link, most were banned in the first half of last century, and I'm sure you'd find many books were also banned in the United States during those same period. Looking at the more recent book bans in that list, they are mostly dealing with sexualizing children, which I believe is also banned in the United States.
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Madotsuki_the_Dreamer — 3 months ago(December 16, 2025 09:08 AM)
They get to decide what is acceptable within their own country.
Yes, and they've decided that they want draconian government censorship of speech and the media. That was exactly my original point, genius.
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/.ㅤ — 3 months ago(December 16, 2025 09:13 AM)
Yes, the people decided they wanted it, and no, that wasn't your point. You were expressing agreement with the idea that banning guns leads to tyrannical governments, but if you are now agreeing that it's the people in these countries who are deciding what is acceptable, then that is the opposite of tyranny. That's democracy.
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Madotsuki_the_Dreamer — 3 months ago(December 16, 2025 08:55 PM)
China also has "different standards" for speech. That doesn't mean that it isn't tyrannical. If your government can ban books and throw people in prisons for expressing the wrong opinions, then you do not have freedom of speech. And no, these things were never voted on.
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Madotsuki_the_Dreamer — 3 months ago(December 16, 2025 09:37 PM)
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China isn't a democracy.
They claim that they are. They just have different standards for democracy. That's how it works, isn't it?
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/.ㅤ — 3 months ago(December 17, 2025 02:31 AM)
Madotsuki_the_Dreamer said...
They claim that they are. They just have different standards for democracy. That's how it works, isn't it?
Also, why don't you use your main account instead of hiding behind a slashdot, Warren?
No. That's not how it works. Look up what a democracy is.
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Madotsuki_the_Dreamer — 3 months ago(December 17, 2025 04:14 AM)
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No. That's not how it works. Look up what a democracy is.
China just has different standards for what consitutes a democracy than we do. Stop trying to force your western imperialist ideas of democracy down their throats, you ****ing colonialist bigot. -
/.ㅤ — 3 months ago(December 17, 2025 04:52 AM)
Madotsuki_the_Dreamer said...
China just has different standards for what consitutes a democracy than we do. Stop trying to force your western imperialist ideas of democracy down their throats, you fucking colonialist bigot.
I do not doubt they have "different standards" but what constitutes democracy is universal.
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Madotsuki_the_Dreamer — 3 months ago(December 17, 2025 05:07 AM)
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I do not doubt they have "different standards" but what constitutes democracy is universal.
Okay, what about Turkey then? They have democratic elections. They also throw you in prison if you criticize their government. Different standards, right? -
/.ㅤ — 3 months ago(December 17, 2025 05:11 AM)
Madotsuki_the_Dreamer said...
Okay, what about Turkey then? They have democratic elections. They also throw you in prison if you criticize their government. Different standards, right?
Turkey is a electoral autocracy not a democracy.
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Madotsuki_the_Dreamer — 3 months ago(December 17, 2025 05:13 AM)
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Turkey is a electoral autocracy not a democracy.
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/.ㅤ — 3 months ago(December 17, 2025 05:14 AM)
Madotsuki_the_Dreamer said...
https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/no-true-scotsman
nobody's clicking on your gay porn site, dum dum
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/.ㅤ — 3 months ago(December 17, 2025 05:20 AM)
Madotsuki_the_Dreamer said...
https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/no-true-scotsman
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