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Chinese censors block ‘Tiananmen’ image of athletes hugging
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How fragile is their regime if it is threatened by race numbers?
Tyranny stand upon a house of cards; flick one card out and the whole rotten structure comes tumbling down.
Time to flick some cards.
If China's economy goes tits up maybe.
It's not just authoritarian regimes that are threatened by numbers
Yeah, about that whole "USA not being authoritarian" thing...
That wiki page is complete nonsense. Take a look at the talk page, no reliable references.
Hardly evidence of a draconian regime.
I guess it is more like an demonstration of power to censor even just two random numbers.
This may sound stupid, but from the view of a government this is actually advantageous. Better censor something before it can be used by the resistance as an identification mark that flies under the radar than to let it gain relevance have your late censorship get even more public attention than it would have otherwise.
They are own goaling their economy with these counter productive pencil pusher jobs that provide zero or negative input to the economy.
Real estate crisis, reduction of jobs especially in the younger population, lack of investment from overseas because of zero covid for too long forcing companies to move supply chains and that's before picking a fight with everyone causing uncertainty which makes it less investable.
Cutting down the "private" sector which provided the majority of the jobs because that would threaten pooh bear.
It'll make China weaker in the long run, but the people in charge won't care, they'll be long dead before then. All the people in the top powers are all multi billionaires, even if they lost 95 percent of their wealth they would still live extremely comfortably.
As for the general populace, I like to use the Kim Jong Un anology - a fat man within a nation of skinny men. Not really of importance to the ruling elite.
Huh? Do you think America doesn't have pencil pushing leaches?
They're called business degrees...
At least talk about their over production of housing or something.
Well let's see, I don't know because I don't live there. Not everyone/everything lives in/revolves around America.
In any case I'll bite then. Everyone I know who's in business degrees are of minimum big 4 or in an investment bank at a minimum, the smarter ones have their own small business.
Are you seriously saying those are less productive than someone who censors information and makes it harder for people to conduct business?
And to your second point the overproduction of housing is two fold, firstly it's one of the very few investable resources there and second the local government needed to sell the housing to raise taxes and needed to build despite demand or lack of due to keeping people in a job.
Yes, they're unproductive leeches by definition, because they don't produce anything of value.
Glad we cleared that up.
So if small businesses aren't what you call producing anything of value then what would you consider would be something that does produce something of value? Out of curiosity.
Because those small businesses are providing services to the community/other businesses which wouldn't be able to function without them. That's not the case with the censorship pencil pushers the businesses there would be able to function better without the extra layer of bureaucracy.
And big 4 accounting and investment banking is required, they fill a market in outsourcing by providing expertise where it doesn't make sense for every company to have a full time employee on it. Good for short term projects the places I worked in all use them. Investment banking well you have to spend money to make money so yes they're providing value by providing the investment for other businesses to grow.
How desperately will the western media scrape the barrel to find something/anything to criticise China for.
This type of censorship seems like a pretty valid thing to criticize even though it's pretty minor.
It's because it's so minor that makes it noteworthy.
Lol, the Asian Games have been a roaring success in Hangzhou for nearly two weeks. From a spectacular opening ceremony to the joy of the athletes competing in an open and friendly environment, it been studiously ignored by the so-called global media yet they wallow in this like pigs in shit.
You all love to call anyone who is vaguely pro China (or anywhere else US/Nato doesn't like) shills but the whole of western corporate media are nothing less.
https://youtu.be/HXyqXsDmVNs?feature=shared
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"Sports games are successful therefore don't care about the censorship" is not the sound argument you think it is.
Anything that could possibly show China in a potentially positive light is routinely ignored. That is censorship.
I see. So one kind of censorship is bad and another kind of censorship is good. How do I tell when it's the good kind of censorship?
I didn't say censorship was good, I said western media will pick up any shit it can find in order to bash China while ignoring anything positive that might come from there. It's not just China, they do the same for everywhere that US/Nato doesn't like. A small handful of corporations controlling everything you know about the world.
So because the West says bad things about China, China can't be criticized for censorship?
In this case trivial shit motivated by fear, jealousy and hate spread by US government friendly media organisations and amplified by bots and shills eager to get their percentage of America's $300,000,000 anti-China propaganda budget.
Of course the US doesn't censor news, they don't need to when a compliant media simply doesn't report things their leaders don't like.
So because it's "trivial shit" it is beyond criticism. I see.
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