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To your first point: When considering issues of liberty we must examine not what is possible but what is considered within the rights of the Chinese citizen. What I mean is, while it may be possible to get all sorts of censored information from within China, that can't be considered freedom when the risks are so great.

That would be like saying that because it is easy to buy a handgun illegal on the black market, it's fine for the government to make gun ownership illegal.

To your other points, you do have some great facts and observations. I certainly agree with the point about stability, however it might be worth temporary instability to achieve long term freedom and human rights.



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