Being a major player in the world means that you put yourself under more scrutiny. Just like a person who goes into politics puts themselves up for public scrutiny. But China and it's communist overlords want to have their cake and eat it too. They have started an aggressive campaign to bully, threaten, and silence anyone that criticizes their actions. Recently they have initiated a $1.37 billion dollar lawsuit against CNN for comments that they feel are negative towards China. So not only do they control and censor their internal media, now they are trying to block anything on the Internet that they do not like, they are lobbying the UN to take over management of the Internet, they have threaten U.S. companies doing business in China if they don't help suppress information, and now they are suing anyone who dares to make a comment that they don't like.

This folks is the face of communism. This is the fruits of Marxism. We have forgotten just how cruel and oppressive it is.

  - Thomas Paine 2

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