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What's going to happen to Censum?

They are already sanctioned.

Looking forward to see who sanctions who.

its obvious that contrary opinions will be banned first with option to appeal coming after. im sure that will be a totally open and transparent process.

The problem will be selective enforcement, and this will give the authorities a wider spectrum of tools to silence whoever they want.

Sure, legal enforcement might be very low, but imagine expressing an opinion that goes counter to someone powerful, they will now have more alternatives to shut down dissenting voices. This is very worrying.


nah, it'll be selectively used against companies that piss the right the people off

Is it already being used to suppress criticism of the government and CPC, or is it planned for next month?

I feel a whole lot of repression is going to happen as people learn they can’t even be themselves in their personal life without somehow hurting the feelings of someone they haven’t even spoke to who has the power to get them terminated.

This is going to be the new blasphemy laws. Anything anti-American will begin to be called "interfering with the democratic process"

This would be revoked soon enough right?

And who will decide what is not to be tolerated?

They'll be fined, or will change their ways under a direct threat of being fined.

I suspect they will crack down on that within the next few years.

Don’t speak about it, will be the next law.

Assuming all the best intentions in the world, this will most certainly be abused. Where do they think all of the people they want to silence will go? They will no doubt go to the darker web and concentrate there.

My prediction. This will be one of a few stories, the media will be told to silence it, and the public won't care.

The most amount of outrage it will likely generate will be a rant by Jon Stewart which will draw laughter, but likely nothing more.

Does anyone have any suggestions about generating proper outrage about such a blatant violation of all of our rights?

If our representatives are being controlled by security apparatuses within the government, then that's the red flag of red flags.


Yup, hopefully we start condemning the USA too

Heh. I wonder what else we’ll all be subjected to quietly in the coming years.

They’ll consort with an inner circle of “industry” accomplices to “address concerns”, keeping everyone out while covering the “we consulted widely” angle. This will get pushed through under cover of darkness with enough of a fig leaf of due process to plausible deny anything other than good intent.

If you’re working on this, shame on you.

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