[efoto]

In an unfortunate act of self-censorship, the video has been now removed from YouTube.

Update: while the video linked by the article has been removed, here it is: https://youtu.be/dQpKcw-n330

[2bitencryption]

"Self-censorship" is much scarier to me than the "traditional" censorship.

It's terrible when a government takes away your voice. But it's so much worse when people do it voluntarily to avoid the consequences.

(in this case, of course Leica is a business that doesn't want to lose a market with billions of people, but still... Leicas have been used for a hundred years to expose this type of nonsense, and now they're doing this...)

[waiseristy]

If Leica wasn't run by a spineless board of directors then they would have the power to pursue principle instead of profit.

[yrro]

“The Empire's got something worse than whips all right. It's got obedience. Whips in the soul. They obey anyone who tells them what to do. Freedom just means being told what to do by someone different.”

From Interesting Times by Terry Pratchett

[abecedarius]

After 1989 there was some debate about how the free world should deal with the Chinese state, and basically "free trade will lead to change" won. We should've been more specific about which side was going to change.

[zeta0134]

In case that goes offline, in the interest of combating censorship, I've mirrored that copy of the ad to IPFS. Here's the hash:

QmZkfyxfhT89qT8LHEqaKdz3ixke8wXJehWAfHUb5RcKSU

If you don't have your own IPFS node, you can watch it through any of the public gateways like this:

https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmZkfyxfhT89qT8LHEqaKdz3ixke8wXJehWAfHU...

> The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it. -John Gilmore