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China kicks top influencer off social media for fabricating viral story of boy’s lost homework
(www.independent.co.uk)
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In a way...
But compare that to countries where no one can hold you accountable for being an asshole. You end up with people trying to out asshole each other, in my state it's not abnormal to hear about road rage leading to shootings in traffic.
But when you look back at the vast majority of human history, this was the type of shit most enforced:
Now, if this happened because she said a government official was an asshole, or that society could be better...
That would be insanely dystopian
The big problem is that one usually leads to the other. Saying politically unpopular things in a way those governments perceive as threatening often leads to more than just administrative fines.
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So...
Same argument Elon musk and Joe Rogaine makes?