PRC bans the N word...no, N letter

[dead0man]

'cause too many people don't like the new dictator

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Look for the new "What does the red mea?" threads in Off Topic in the near future.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Who wants to bet Trump is secretly envious of the "Great (Fire)wall of China"?

[GM Team Member and Senator WB]

not surprising, tyranny will go to huge lengths to stop criticism.

Who wants to bet Trump is secretly envious of the "Great (Fire)wall of China"?

I'm waiting for him to say something like "we should just outlaw fake news".

[Unapologetic Chinaperson]

The Chinese government has been anti-liberalizing for several years now, and it's clear that Xi is tripping on power, but come on. If you look at this from an objective perspective, this is clearly "Trump tweeted covfefe" level clickbait. Trump is a serious problem, but "covfefe" isn't. Likewise, this was clearly poor software design (if not a software bug) that was rectified in less than a day.

Sure, we Westerners can look at stuff like this and have a good laugh. And China has real problems. But this is yet another example of the spread of clickbait China-hysteria by Western media outlets (which have incentives to spread as much China hysteria as they can) which exaggerates and distorts those real problems into some whole nother level. And it's one reason why Chinese citizens don't take Western grandstanding seriously anymore.

[dead0man]

yes, clearly we (CNN, New York Times, BBC, PBS, NPR, etc, etc) are the ones who should be embarrassed by PRC censorship for daring to report things that they, ya know, actually censor.  Like Winnie the Pooh.  Dictators in Asia don't like being made fun of for being fat apparently.

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Just call them Chia until they stop doing that.

[Unapologetic Chinaperson]

Also, the more I think of this, why is THIS an Atlas thread instead of, you know, Xi Jinping's government changing the Constitution?

[Sestak]

Just call them Chia until they stop doing that.

Yes.

Also, the more I think of this, why is THIS an Atlas thread instead of, you know, Xi Jinping's government changing the Constitution?

Because it's Atlas.

[dead0man]

Also, the more I think of this, why is THIS an Atlas thread instead of, you know, Xi Jinping's government changing the Constitution?

we can have both


you're really not very good at this.