You can easily tell their intention was never to create a space for “free speech”, it was to create a place where bigots could freely dump their hate speech on…unless those bigots aren’t European descendants, of course.
Students: design a privacy/free speech tool
CCP: WAIT, THAT’S ILLEGAL!
(kudos to all punks in CCP-controlled territories finding new workarounds for surveilance and censorship)
Let’s not fool ourselves, denying Uyghur abuse puts you in the same territory as holocaust deniers.