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Originally Posted by TheForsaken
The First Amendment only prevents censorship from the government. Private organizations, including social and mass media, can (and did) censor stuff all the time, which is completely legal unless you can prove that the government is behind such censorship.
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True, but in the current context where right-wing groups claim censorship at the drop of a hat, and the White House is convening
meetings on how to clamp down on social media companies, I think it would still be controversial even if not legal.
As for Hong Kong, the Washington Post published this story on how high-level members of the government in Beijing benefit from Hong Kong's financial structures and reliance on an independent judiciary.
https://beta.washingtonpost.com/poli...ake-hong-kong/
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Hong Kong’s offshore setup works only under the “one country, two systems” approach. What makes Hong Kong uniquely useful for the Chinese elites is that it combines political control with separate legal and monetary systems. Rich Chinese can open trusts on the mainland, too, but the firms setting them up are mostly state-owned or government-controlled, which means the money is not in a true haven.
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