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[-] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 247 points 1 year ago

A photograph of two Chinese athletes hugging after a race has been censored on Chinese social media because the women’s race numbers inadvertently formed a reference to the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989.

How fragile is their regime if it is threatened by race numbers?

[-] MindSkipperBro12@lemmy.world 57 points 1 year ago

Tyranny stand upon a house of cards; flick one card out and the whole rotten structure comes tumbling down.

[-] GreenMario@lemm.ee 33 points 1 year ago
[-] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

If China's economy goes tits up maybe.

[-] CosmicTurtle@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

Yeah, about that whole "USA not being authoritarian" thing...

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[-] DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago

That wiki page is complete nonsense. Take a look at the talk page, no reliable references.

Hardly evidence of a draconian regime.

[-] the_seven_sins@feddit.de 14 points 1 year ago

I guess it is more like an demonstration of power to censor even just two random numbers.

[-] duviobaz 10 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Anonbal185@aussie.zone 9 points 1 year ago

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.

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[-] wurzelgummidge@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

How desperately will the western media scrape the barrel to find something/anything to criticise China for.

[-] SHOW_ME_YOUR_ASSHOLE@lemm.ee 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This type of censorship seems like a pretty valid thing to criticize even though it's pretty minor.

[-] DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 year ago

It's because it's so minor that makes it noteworthy.

[-] wurzelgummidge@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

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

Have fun with the video then downvote me like the free person that you are.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

"Sports games are successful therefore don't care about the censorship" is not the sound argument you think it is.

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[-] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 14 points 1 year ago

Go back to Lemmygrad.

[-] Syndic@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

How fragile is their regime if it is threatened by race numbers?

Yes.

[-] expatriado@lemmy.world 105 points 1 year ago

i wasn't aware about that number, now i am, thanks china

[-] XbSuper@lemmy.world 55 points 1 year ago

6-4 (June 4th)for those not reading the article.

[-] Marsupial@quokk.au 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

China incorrectly places the month before the day as well?

[-] prayer@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago

Wikipedia says China uses Year, Month, Day exclusively, so they do place month before day.

[-] Marsupial@quokk.au 28 points 1 year ago

Oh shit yeah ISO 8601, that’s cool.

Thought it was like the stupid M/D/Y thing.

[-] DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago

Wow ok. Do they do that in practice? Like in Australia we measure everything in metric... except for all the things we measure in imperial.

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[-] roguetrick@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago

June Fourth incident is how they refer to it.

[-] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 12 points 1 year ago

Which incident China? I thought "nothing happened" that day.

Seems silly censoring a date that nothing happened on.

/S

[-] Hubi@feddit.de 63 points 1 year ago

Imagine a government being so weak and thin-skinned that they have to censor two digits next to each other

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[-] KidsTryThisAtHome@lemmy.world 58 points 1 year ago
[-] Gormadt 10 points 1 year ago
[-] ToAllPointsWest@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago

Remember China disappeared Naomi Wu

[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 40 points 1 year ago

I worked for a software company that had a customer in China. Our system had a standard set of emoji that included the world flags. In order for us to keep them as a customer we had to give them a special build without Taiwan's flag because it was illegal.

I would not be surprised if the Chinese government just skipped from June 3 to June 5 and made June 31 days long.

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[-] lustyargonian@lemm.ee 39 points 1 year ago

Something something streisand effect

[-] spez@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 year ago

FUCK YOU XI the Pooh

[-] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 26 points 1 year ago

64 is forbidden number now?

[-] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 27 points 1 year ago

Nintendo fans in shambles.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

No one tell the Beatles.

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[-] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

“Eternal vigilance is the price of maintaining a dystopian totalitarian shithole”

[-] Sunfoil@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

Do stacks of items only go up to 63 in the Minecraft Chinese release?

[-] gmtom@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Why is 6/4 a refence to the 4th of June when China doesn't use that date format?

[-] maxso216@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 1 year ago

In Chinese, we usually read out a date with year first, month latter and days after it. For example, if it's 4/6/1989 , we would say 一九八九年六月四日 (year 1989, June, day 4). I think there's not any relation with date format we use.

[-] DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 year ago

I mean yeah ok "silly china" but, god that sucks for Wu.

Not good for anyone when someone gets disqualified.

I thought it was customary to just restart the race when there's a false start.

[-] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 year ago

Uploading this image for future reference of 6/4.

[-] sturmblast@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

this world is really dumb sometimes

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 8 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Lin Yuwei and Wu Yanni, China’s entrants in the women’s 100m hurdles final, embraced after the race at the Asian Games in Hangzhou.

Internet censorship in China, particularly of images, is often done on an ad-hoc basis with human monitors deciding which posts to restrict.

In 2017, Weibo, one of China’s biggest social media platforms with nearly 600 million monthly users, said it employed 1,000 “supervisors” to report on “pornographic, illegal and harmful” content.

That Wu had been allowed to run at all prompted concern that race officials were reluctant to disqualify one of China’s star athletes, regardless of sporting rules.

Mark Dreyer, a China-based sports analyst who was in the stadium for the event, wrote afterwards: “It just felt like the local officials needed to find a way to let Wu run”.

On Weibo, posts from ordinary netizens showing the greyed out squares of Wu and Lin’s “6/4” hug, the comments were more muted.


The original article contains 431 words, the summary contains 155 words. Saved 64%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!

[-] EK13@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

These summaries are usually decent from what I’ve seen but this one misses out some important information. The fourth and fifth paragraphs of the summary make no sense without the context that the athlete was disqualified for a false start and then still allowed to run.

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[-] Rentlar@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ah yes, I wonder if anything happened on the 65th day of April, in the square close to the place which the sun rises...

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