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Cowards: How authoritarian governments coerce spineless companies into censorship
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Cowards: How authoritarian governments coerce spineless companies into censorship

Recently, a controversy has emerged surrounding the National Basketball Association and how it dealt with pressure from the Chinese…

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Oct 20, 2019
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Recently, a controversy has emerged surrounding the National Basketball Association and how it dealt with pressure from the Chinese government after one of its managers, Daryl Morey, tweeted in support of protestors in Hong Kong. One doesn’t need to be a keen political or international expert to know how China responded to this; they demanded that the N…

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