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If you mean blogging about political issues from within China, then yes.

If you mean forgoing any semblance of social decency for the sole purpose of antagonizing people and destroying positive discourse or social interaction, then no.



Exactly.

I guess it can be argued that you cannot partially support freedom, as it is only sold as the whole, but I also feel that there are laws that can mediate this middle ground.

Although I am not always the biggest fan of 'Johny Law', I do feel that at least the law can step in when harassment or threatening behavior is occurring to reduce its presence. Most of these participating in trolling behaviors would not continue their actions after a couple of rounds in the courts and after paying the associated fines...


And the troll communities are aware of this. The only problem is that, as the article points out, no objective standard of "cyberbullying" can be established. Most of it does not even fall into the ethically debatable category of hate speech, despite the meaningless spam of ethnic slurs these groups use.

The troll groups will push the law a lot more softly than they'll push private citizens -- they crack down on child pornography in their own ranks to avoid being "v&" ("vanned", or "sent for a ride in the party van" -- the FBI). So if we extend the van-hammer to mere insults, we might get them to back down... but do you want to live in a country where calling someone names on the internet, even horrible hateful names with full intent to hurt feelings and disrupt mental equanimity, gets you arrested?




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