I won’t go into the whole article that was posted, because the 1st few lines of the article are BS par none, hence the rest can only try to support those 1st few lines.
Can’t find something specfic to SV but SV can’t be worse than AVERAGE usa freedom of speech
Hence, have posted just a few links. I can provide many many more but I will desist.
A man in China has been sentenced to five and a half years in jail for selling software that circumvented the country’s pervasive internet censorship controls, a sign authorities are stepping up a campaign meant to “clean up” the internet.
Wu ran a virtual private network (VPN), a tool that allows unfettered access to websites normally blocked by China’s massive censorship network. The Great Firewall, as the censorship apparatus is commonly known, means people in China are banned from visiting thousands of websites, including Google, Facebook, YouTube and Instagram.
I bet the guy fired by google would disagree. You should probably separate freedom of speech protection against the government vs corporations. In the US, we have protection from the government. Corporations fire people all the time for saying the wrong thing. That’s pretty anti free speech.
Corporations are slave masters…they pulled the wool over America’s eyes and got the biggest tax break in history…Shocking after they won their supreme court case and can donate as much as they want…
That’s fundamental misunderstanding of freedom of speech. It only means freedom from government persecution. It doesn’t mean you are free from social consequences.
If you are CEO of a company and say racist stuff I as private citizen can exercise my freedom of speech to call you a racist and call for boycott of your company’s products. What’s the problem? Rich people should be cuddled because they can’t handle the social backlash? If you can’t handle the heat keep your mouth shut.
As a Westerner in China Sam has way more freedom than ordinary Chinese. What he did was just “speech arbitrage”. I suggest Sam try to talk about Tibet, June 4th, Taiwan independence, Western democracy, Falun Gong or many other banned topics.
You want to say racist and homophobic stuff? Sure, go to China. They don’t care about those things. They may even agree with you. But as soon as you go into the topics they care about? Watch out.
Oh good grief. Complain complain complain complain. CA steals…errrr…taxes your money left and right. I’m all for anyone not paying taxes to CA until CA learns how to spend it wisely.
Merry Christmas greetings were banned by the Feds and corporations about 30 years ago. The war on saying Merry Christmas started by Jews and Atheists has been reversed , when they realized the Ali Akbar greeting was far worse… lol
Never understood. I am not a christian, but i have no issues saying merry christmas - it just brightens the moment, doesn’t make me any less in my own faith
When you see Americans or Westerners, you say “merry Christmas”. When you see non-Westerners, you say “happy holidays”. Context! Don’t use the same language on everyone.
