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it's a massive fucking lie anyway; anyone who's been to china can tell you they have winnie the pooh merch in every fuckin' shop. winnie the pooh is very popular there.
I think the top comment is the real answer on this.
There is censorship in China, as well as in the west. They just operate very differently.
In the west, outside the US, I think it'd be fairly easy to argue there's more censorship in China. (Even with the pretty depressing clamp down on right to protest, and suppressing of anti-israel speech in many forms happening at the moment)
Equally though, people massively overblow what censorship is actually like in China. I'm not gonna get disappeared next time I go to China just for this comment. Or even if I overtly criticised the government on real-name social media.
tl;dr "China bad!" and "China so good!" are both equally annoying positions to find on the internet.
Reality is nuanced, but that doesn't seem to make people happy.
any source on this because what I'm seeing on xiaohongshu is quite the opposite
I believe they're saying the stuff in the parentheses are things the US is doing
Ah that makes way more sense
@FleetwoodLinux@lemmy.zip thanks for the assist. This is indeed what I meant.
The top comment about an inoffensive cartoon vs a terrible person?
You won't get disappeared so long as you're parent country is on good terms with China. If not you make a convenient pawn.
You just can’t make memes about Xi using Pooh on social media I guess.
Out of curiosity, is there any Chinese source that says that? Or are we just operating off memes we have seen?
I feel like the Taiwanese air force wouldn't bother with these unofficial patches if there weren't at least some truth to it.
A punch in the face for Xi caricature: Taiwan air force badge goes viral
Well you are foolish if you really think this proves anything. There is a long history of anti-China movements catering to the west for sympathy, as that's their main backer. Protest signs in English and this are just part of an appeal to the west.
All this proves is that they have heard the same stupid memes you have.
Have they cast themselves as 'pedo bear'?
I thought about asking how would state controlled media be able to publish anything about an image if it's banned. Then I figured that's pretty obvious, and didn't want to ruffle any feathers. Should have known better than to try and go against the narrative. My bad.
Brother. You must say something is banned for it to be banned. You can't just vibe ban something. You have to tell people "hey, stop doing this". Where is that message
Who's talking about getting something from state controlled media?
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Would be my reaction too if I wouldn't be able to corroborate claims. Did you know the Ukrainians claim to be winning the war? So do the Russians.I wonder who's right?
Yeah idk, who do you believe is the aggressor in that situation?
I see you're not smart enough to recognize a rhetorical question and choose to use it as a deflection from not being able to corroborate your ridiculous claim that you can't post winnie the poh on chinese social media. Basically I was trying to highlight that anyone can claim anything it's why @SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world is right in asking for your homework libshit
😂 so anyway, who is the aggressor?
With Love, Libshit
I don't see the logic in this sentence. What makes those soldiers a more reliable source than you or me? Taiwanese people read memes too.
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🤔 Interesting. China Military Calls for Efforts to Repair Image after Scandals
Got any hot takes about this army?
I don't think many people are gonna have "hot takes" based on a vaguely titled article behind a paywall.
Also "scandals" to do with the Chinese military have little to do with someone saying that Taiwanese military badges don't prove anything about the situation in China.
But all armies=bad and propaganda, no?
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Least incognito sinophobe
Do the Taiwanese not also like dank memes?
So they're surely just randomly banning those words from videogames
I knew woke leftists making vidyagames political was CCP plot
Is there a source for this claim? Or just something you've noticed?
Basically all games tencent have stock in ban saying 'winnie the pooh"
Basically all games by UBIsoft or EA in stock ban saying: "Fredthefishlord is sinophobic lib"
I feel like people already forgot about the hearthstone hongkong debacle, when Blizzard Activision bent their asses for tencent and banned him
Idk man. People typically use it to be racist against Chinese folk. It's not crazy that video game moderation teams would ban a common insult against a race of players.
I also don't know anything, but it sounds like none of us do and we are just speculating
No, it started as an adorable meme on Chinese forums:
It then became a racist trope on Western forums.
The title of president is ceremonial, so term limits on it are hardly consequential. The real top position since 1982 has been the General Secretary of the CPC, which is a renewable five year term that has never had term limits. Xi is still very popular with people in China, so it’s no surprise that he won a third term in 2022. Jiang Zemin also won three terms, so there’s nothing unusual about it.
And why wouldn’t Xi be popular?
Where you got “fascist” and “dictator” from was a lifetime of Western anti-communist propaganda.