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[–] Yetanotherpaolo@feddit.nl 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Makes sense, ones an inoffensive cartoon, the others a cunt who should die.

[–] liuther9@feddit.nl 4 points 1 day ago

Reddit admins would have permabanned for this comment though their masters are doing same comments inflicting violence but IRL. Love lemmy for free speech

[–] caboose2006@lemmy.world 136 points 3 days ago (32 children)

I lived in china for 4 years and Winnie has Def never been outlawed. Chinese censorship is much more sophisticated than "hey, that's illegal." There's not a list of pictures or memes or phrases that if you're caught with you'll get a visit from the police. No no no. There are hundreds of thousands of people monitoring social media for the latest "subversive" trends. When a new trend develops that content is blacklisted and just not allowed to be spread. You'll send your friend a picture and it never shows up on their phone. There's no indication on your end that it didn't send or they didn't get it. You can have this content on your phone, the CCP doesn't care. They care about it spreading. And you'll never get in trouble for trying to spread it because the system doesn't allow it to spread.

[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 50 points 3 days ago (2 children)

That's actually kinda cool in a techno dyatopian kinda way.

[–] tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 41 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I was going to say horrifying.

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[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 34 points 3 days ago (77 children)

definitely beats having fascism spread around unchecked (and even encouraged) like us tech companies.

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[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

That happens to me on YouTube; the only way I can talk to some people is on rednote.

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[–] _lunar@lemmy.ml 94 points 3 days ago (35 children)

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.

[–] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago (4 children)

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.

[–] mathemachristian@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

suppression of anti-israel speech

any source on this because what I'm seeing on xiaohongshu is quite the opposite

[–] FleetwoodLinux@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I believe they're saying the stuff in the parentheses are things the US is doing

[–] mathemachristian@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ah that makes way more sense

[–] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

@FleetwoodLinux@lemmy.zip thanks for the assist. This is indeed what I meant.

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[–] Flyberius@hexbear.net 83 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm literally in a Chinese hostel right now with a Winnie the pooh mattress.

[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 42 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You fool, the CCP thought police unit are going to backtrace your photo and execute the hostel owner and their entire bloodline now!!!!

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[–] Carl@hexbear.net 35 points 3 days ago

It's always projection. Even if they're not literally doing the thing that they accuse their opponent of doing yet, the fact that they're making the accusation reveals their intention.

Ah shit, this means they're gonna do everything they made up about Xinjiang (if they're not doing it already at the alligator place)

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