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My cousin in Singapore said he couldn't even share a news article about a local protest on his social feed because the link was blocked.
It wasn't even a call to action, just a report from a small outlet, and it made me realize how a ban in one place can make you scared to even talk about it anywhere else, so what's a story you've heard that got silenced before it could spread?
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angelac636d ago
Yeah, that "quiet fear" part @emerychen mentioned really hits home. It's not just about the link being blocked, it's about how that makes you second guess even bringing the topic up in a private chat. I heard about a factory pollution report from a town a few hours from here that just never made it past the local paper. No big outlets picked it up, and the paper's own website had the article taken down a day later. You just stop hearing about it, and that feels worse than a loud argument. Makes you wonder how many local stories just vanish like that.
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