• bloodfart@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    Chinese people talking about tiannamen is literally a direct refutation of the claim that they can’t do so.

    It is as related to that claim as any thing could possibly be.

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      3 months ago

      We already covered this multiple times. The claim is they can’t because of government actions that you refuse to prove don’t happen. Are you now backing off the other part altogether and saying the only thing you’ll defend is that some Chinese people have said things about TS?

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        3 months ago

        I never said that. You did. I don’t care about disproving the claims you make. I especially don’t care to attempt to disprove a negative statement since it’s pretty fraught.

        That idea, that government action prevents Chinese people from speaking about tiannamen rests on Chinese people not speaking about tiannamen. That second part, the one your claim rests on, is what I dispute and what I made a post about before even your first reply.

        I asked you if you’d accept Chinese people speaking about tiannamen as evidence of my claim and you said (and I’m paraphrasing here, because enumerating all the ways you said the Chinese people would have to be in line with the western story in order for you to accept that evidence amounts to the same outcome) no.

        It seems like all you care about is government restriction of speech. When is it acceptable for a government to restrict speech?

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          3 months ago

          So then, no evidence that they don’t attempt to hide the information or ban people from holding memorial services? You could provide evidence that the government allows memorial services, or you could prove that the specific claims made in the evidence I gave you are incorrect. For example, you could show that access to the relevant wiki pages and Google searches are not blocked in China. None of this is proving a negative or an impossibly high bar to meet.

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            3 months ago

            So I, as I said before multiple times, don’t care what you think or about the questions you’re asking.

            You seem to care a lot though, so I’ll pose my last question again: when is it acceptable for a government to restrict speech?

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                3 months ago

                I guess here we are.

                You want me to disprove something you said in response to something I said that you admitted you wouldn’t accept evidence of.

                It seems like you really want to talk about government repression of speech though, so why not tell me when it’s acceptable for government to restrict speech?

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                    3 months ago

                    Yeah, I don’t understand how all that stuff you brought up relates at all to the false claim that Chinese people can’t talk about tiannamen.

                    For it to be related a person would have to be some kind of freedom of speech absolutist, which is why I asked if you thought governments should ever limit speech.

                    Come on, I’m finally engaging with all the stuff you asked a million years ago, you should be happy!