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That’s a completely ridiculous line of reasoning. How can you honestly write that it’s no better than censorship. Have you been spent any significant time living behind the great firewall?



Blocking incoming information or outgoing information requires a firewall either way. Here the firewall is the patent system, or any cultural belief that trade secrets create more value than open systems.


That's not what I asked.


If you can't read it between the lines : Yes, we are all living behind some sort of firewalls, either technical, legal or cultural.


You said "Not better than China censorship."

That's ridiculous. There are degrees, shades of grey.




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