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>Then I discovered that "color revolutions" were not happening by chance and that it was a CIA "technology" to remove an unwanted leader from a target country.

>Now I understand why they use censorship.

You're being downvoted for this but I understand where you're coming from. The west has shown that it regularly targets other countries in terms of information warfare. We know, for example, that the CIA tried to instigate a coup last year through a Twitter like application[1]. We know JTRIG exists and what it exists for, etc. etc.

The West exerting influence through information/misinformation distribution, the corruption of online narratives, etc. is most certainly a threat to foreign entities.

I can understand why they would work to curb western influence in their countries and I don't blame them, and they use a very heavy-handed approach to deal with it.

There's an information/misinformation/psyops war going on every day on the internet and some entities have chosen to deal with it by filtering out anything that could be part of it.

Do I agree with them for doing so? Not really, I understand where they're coming from though. Do I think that they are actively fighting a threat? Yes, they quite likely are.

Things aren't as black and white as they would like us to believe.

[1]http://time.com/47912/u-s-officials-created-a-cuban-twitter-...



It's no secret that the CIA (like many governments) engages in covert, propaganda, and information warfare against other nations.

But Chinese censorship is far from limited to preventing foreign espionage. How is the CIA more than a distraction or an excuse?




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