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So can we believe this is happening in america? >> it's really shocking. i cannot get over the fact our governor signed this bill. basically is different doctor posts where it says that masks might harm the development of children on toddler's come if somebody complains to the licensing board he is spreading misinformation like the academy of pediatrics says it's perfectly safe to put a mask on your two -year-old, then in that case that doctor may lose his license. it essentially sensors doctors but they can lose their license so now they will self censor. so what happens now whenever you see ...

Friends originally went out in china at least 20 years ago, and the whole system was a little bit more relaxed then but also people were not so conscience of lgbt q but also people were not so conscience of lgbt 0 issues and more recently there is been a move towards much more conservative gender roles and sexuality wells and i think two or three years ago there was a specific regulation forbidding lgbt q specific regulation forbidding lgbt 0 content on the internet. it has opening a lot and of course, you know, spotting it all meant weeding it all out is not something that the chinese governm...

They've become much more conservative. friends originally went out in china at least 20 years ago, and the whole system was a little relaxed then, but also people weren't so conscious of lgbtq issues. and more recently, there's been a move towards much more conservative gender roles and sexuality roles, and i think two or three years ago, there was a specific regulation forbidding lgbtq content on the internet. it's been happening a lot. of course, spotting it all and weeding it all out is not something that the chinese government would find very easy. and it relies on individual streaming ser...

West, victimized by the west. so, russia gets to be the, you know, russia can never be the aggressor if you don't talk about an invasion. >> elliott, i want to ask you. in a totalitarian, state there's a spectrum, right? there's some states where there are mass arrests of anyone who commits a minor infraction. and then, there are places where, as ruth just pointed out, sometimes, it's high-level. it's highly prominent arrests, or prosecutions that cause everybody than it to self censor themselves. you achieve the goal by making people worry about whether anything they sake can be held against ...

Annexation of crimea to be called an annexation, and not allowing the work to be called a war. they can't possibly prosecute everybody, but they can prosecute people at random. so, you are not likely to be prosecuted and arrested, but you can never know you are going to be that person. so therefore, you are going to self censor because it's a matter of complete uncertainty. >> writ, you tweeted, this is all putin has now, laws to make telling the truth a criminal act. his hypocrisy was never sustainable. nor was his recourse to mart repression, censorship, and machismo. his ego permits him no ...