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dublinben on Jan 28, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Facebook begins censoring images of prophet Muhamm...

Would that really be so bad for users in Turkey? Maybe a blanket ban of Facebook and other popular sites would encourage a change in government. This appeasement just enables authoritarian censorship.

alphakappa on Jan 28, 2015 [–]

A change in government because some sites are unavailable? That's ambitious -- we just need to look at China to see how well that idea works.

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