RoomAndBored [he/him, any]

hello weary traveller. please won’t you sit amd rest a while

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Cake day: June 5th, 2023

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  • G “China banned Winnie”

    R “No they didn’t and here’s evidence”

    G “Oh I’ll choose to ignore that”

    G “The USA doesn’t censor online political speech”

    R “Yes they do and here’s a directly relevant example to our discussion from the self proclaimed ‘front page of the internet’”

    G “Oh you’re just a shit posting community that doesn’t count”

    You completely cave from every point in the face of scrutiny. Do you have any shame? You retreat every time and just throw out another glib line. Thanks for the thought dulling discussions mate.




  • No. One movie didn’t receive screening approval. China limits import for screening of foreign films to 34 a year. I’m not talking Hollywood films, I’m talking all foreign films. The Christoper Robin movie in 2018 didn’t make the cut after it had a disappointing box office and critical reception in Western markets. The IP still remains popular in China because Winnie’s cute.

    Yes. The memes associating President Xi with Winnie are banned. You won’t find them on Weibo, for example, where they’ll be likely taken down. Weibo strictly monitors political discourse online and routinely removes content that is aggressively polarising, especially around major political events like the Two Sessions. This is partially at the behest of the government and partially a responsibility towards its userbase.

    Some provocative political content is monitored and censored, and we’ve always known that, however, Winnie is not, as you originally said. This is a bald faced orientalist lie and it shows how hollow it is, seeing how quickly you had to abandon it in the face of readily available English language evidence.