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in my heart and in my mind. what s left for me? that s a very dangerous thing, a very risky thing for the government to do. china has always censored the internet, but now it s scrubbing its own homemade entertainment. popular television shows and movies have disappeared. and, of course, there is no google, no facebook, no snapchat, no instagram. some of that predated xi but he has doubled down on a separate chinese technosphere. the chinese government said we re actually going to separate. we don t want a worldwide web. they have 20 monitors of social media taking down postings like whack-a-mole. step by step, over the course of the years that xi jinping has been in power, he has been eating away at the domains of