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zaro on Aug 27, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: China's New Wave of Internet Censorship: Name Veri...

> They arrest you for weed, but not for running an anti-establishment site

Funny you say that, because arresting people for weed started as a way to arrest people running antiestablishment sites ;) http://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-r...

pas on Aug 28, 2017 [–]

That link doesn't work for me, but I guess this is it: http://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-r...

And yes, of course, there's a clear bias in the Controlled Substances Act, and its enforcement.

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