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Discussion on: Facebook agreed to censor "anti-state" content in Vietnam

 
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Yufan Lou

teaching people how to think

To teach how to think means also to discourage how not to think. A large part of teaching is about regulating the classroom.

Facebook from 2018 is no longer even the Facebook from 2011

More state-sponsored political activity is a recognition of the effectiveness of political activity on Facebook, not a refutation. The trend is as Facebook connect more people, it becomes more effective and involved in real world politics.