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

 
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Yufan Lou

In terms of political organization, the government and the anti-government factions have to do exactly the same thing: advertise their positions, garner support, and convert the support into policies. Any political tool as effective as Facebook would eventually be adopted by both sides.

You seem to assume "state-sponsored" is illegitimate. I want to remind you that the Social Security is state-sponsored. The COVID-19 response is state-sponsored. The National Parks are state-sponsored. State is the governance of a large territory. Even the anti-government movements, they want to build a different state, or some different states. A state emerges as long as people in that territory want to communicate and commerce.