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Criticizing the government and the powers of the CCP are perfectly fair game - these kinds of over the top misinformed takes unfortunately plague HN.

Obviously, China silences dissenters. However, most of the comments in this thread probably wouldn't even be removed.

Take this study (cited 1600 times) from Harvard:

How does that have anything to do with my point that if the Democrats and Republicans agree on something unconstitutional it will happen anyways?

Both that can be true and it can also be true that the Chinese government is worse to their own citizens.

And what would happen, then ? Any specific examples of such things happening ?

Here's a very short list of pro-democracy or pro-human rights dissidents and what kinds of punishment we know happened to them as a result:

Here's some internet-specific examples: