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rvnxyesterday at 7:19 PM6 repliesview on HN

Difficult to blame them, considering censorship exists in the West too.


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shrubbleyesterday at 10:16 PM

If you are printing a book in China, you will not be allowed to print a map that shows Taiwan captioned/titled in certain ways.

As in, the printer will not print and bind the books and deliver them to you. They won’t even start the process until the censors have looked at it.

The censorship mechanism is quick, usually less than 48 hours turnaround, but they will catch it and will give you a blurb and tell you what is acceptable verbiage.

Even if the book is in English and meant for a foreign market.

So I think it’s a bit different…

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Romario77yesterday at 7:26 PM

nowhere near to China.

In US almost anything could be discussed - usually only unlawful things are censored by government.

Private entities might have their own policies, but government censorship is fairly small.

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3371yesterday at 8:04 PM

Hard to agree. Not even being to say something because it's either illegal or there are systems to erase it instantly, is very different from people dislike (even too radically) you to say something.

solusipseyesterday at 7:54 PM

yeah, censorship in the west should give them carte blanche, difficult to blame them, what a fool

rihegheryesterday at 7:25 PM

What prompt should I run to detect western censorship from a LLM?

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varjagyesterday at 9:01 PM

It is in fact not difficult to blame them.