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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?
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.
That wiki page is complete nonsense. Take a look at the talk page, no reliable references.
Hardly evidence of a draconian regime.
Yeah, about that whole “USA not being authoritarian” thing…
What about it? Please explain, show your work.
ITT: Teenagers who don’t know what “authoritarian” means.
It has the highest per-capita incarceration rate and rate of police killings.
It’s a highly flawed democracy which gives too much power to the police and military which is abusing said power.
Don’t forget the corruption abused by companies and the wealthy
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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.
How fragile is their regime if it is threatened by race numbers?
Yes.
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
Have fun with the video then downvote me like the free person that you are.
“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.
What a stupid argument
You’re pitiful
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i wasn’t aware about that number, now i am, thanks china
6-4 (June 4th)for those not reading the article.
China incorrectly places the month before the day as well?
Wikipedia says China uses Year, Month, Day exclusively, so they do place month before day.
Oh shit yeah ISO 8601, that’s cool.
Thought it was like the stupid M/D/Y thing.
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.
Live in China, yes it’s consistently applied. But they also spell it out, i.e. today’s date would be 2023年10月4日 (year-month-day / nian-yue-ri), so the order is unmistakably.
So one of the only countries that does it correctly. (Day Month Year is just as wrong as Month Day Year)
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What?
I misread and deleted my comment
June Fourth incident is how they refer to it.
Imagine a government being so weak and thin-skinned that they have to censor two digits next to each other
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Fuck the ccp
Based AF
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.
29?
No… like if a 30 storey building has no 13th floor then you end up with a 31st floor even though there’s only 30 floors.
Ah yes, that makes sense.
People on the 14th Floor, you know what Floor you’re really on. “What room are you in?” “1401”. “No, you’re not. Jump out of window, you’ll die earlier!”
Basically June 4th would become 5th and so June 30th would become 31st
Ah, of course.
Remember China disappeared Naomi Wu
Wu has been absent from social media since June 2023, reportedly after receiving a police visit due to her public criticisms of Signal and Chinese keyboard apps.
She’s a public face. For every Naomi Wu there are a hundred others that get disappeared every day, for equally benign thing. Fuck the CCP. Fuck Tankies.
I’m pretty sure China disappeared a LOT more people than just her.
Something something streisand effect
Doesn’t work that well when most of your Chinese cousins also act mad for this disgraceful and disrespectful act.
FUCK YOU XI the Pooh
64 is forbidden number now?
Nintendo fans in shambles.
No one tell the Beatles.
Is that why shitty Chinese microprocessors are all 32-bit?
“Eternal vigilance is the price of maintaining a dystopian totalitarian shithole”
Do stacks of items only go up to 63 in the Minecraft Chinese release?
Why is 6/4 a refence to the 4th of June when China doesn’t use that date format?
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.
this world is really dumb sometimes
Uploading this image for future reference of 6/4.
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.