The turntables

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.

That's actually kinda cool in a techno dyatopian kinda way.
- I was going to say horrifying.
- definitely beats having fascism spread around unchecked (and even encouraged) like us tech companies.
That happens to me on YouTube; the only way I can talk to some people is on rednote.
Seems more like Huxley than Orwell.
They get you with inconvenience instead of brute force.
- stop talking about novels like they're historical studies or facts
Can't they use stuff like signal or simplex to communicate. How they going to decrypt the msg and the app simple x is open source. Until they are not seeing what app you have in the system it should not be a problem
- Those apps are blocked. Your apps have to be unencrypted to be distributed in China. If you can get a VPN that works you can use them.

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.

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.
- suppression of anti-israel speech
  any source on this because what I'm seeing on xiaohongshu is quite the opposite
- The top comment about an inoffensive cartoon vs a terrible person?
- You won't get disappeared so long as you're parent country is on good terms with China. If not you make a convenient pawn.
You just can’t make memes about Xi using Pooh on social media I guess.
- Out of curiosity, is there any Chinese source that says that? Or are we just operating off memes we have seen?
So they're surely just randomly banning those words from videogames
- I knew woke leftists making vidyagames political was CCP plot
- Idk man. People typically use it to be racist against Chinese folk. It's not crazy that video game moderation teams would ban a common insult against a race of players.
  I also don't know anything, but it sounds like none of us do and we are just speculating
- Is there a source for this claim? Or just something you've noticed?

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

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

I'm just curious if the "fun countries" will "let me right in" because of my profile picture?

i mean, should a meme that's not exceedingly political but pokes slight fun of a political figure increase the chances of you getting into a given country, when its on your phone?
on the other hand it would be kind of funny if having pictures of bald eagles and us flags and pro trump memes on your phone made la migra care more about the immigrants they are deporting.
- i mean, should a meme that's not exceedingly political but pokes slight fun of a political figure increase the chances of you getting into a given country, when its on your phone?
  No, it's a double edged sword, it is.
  on the other hand it would be kind of funny if having pictures of bald eagles and us flags and pro trump memes on your phone made la migra care more about the immigrants they are deporting.
  Again, no. I only have so much room on my phone for corny-ass-mostly-lazy-spoiled-shits; mainly cats.
- I'm not going to some authoritarian shithole that thinks they need to see my phone.

The many faces of JD Vance

Didn’t this turn out to be fake?

No, his face really does look like that
- More proof he looks like this
None of the documentation or statements by US officials are consistent, and appear to include a bit of lying. So people are leaning towards him being at least partially correct in his accusations.
In short, they saw the picture and then began an extended interview where they made a bunch of false claims, and used made up reasons to deny him. Then later claimed they used more reasonable argument, which also doesn't really hold water.
I think US customs said it was because he admitted to using drugs in the past and had photos of a paraphernalia on his phone. He said they ignored that stuff and focused on the photo. So it comes down to whether you think one specific customs employee could potentially see something they don’t like and choose to refuse entry for another reason or that customs is being honest and open about the reason his entry was refused and that the people making the announcement fully understand the situation (including the thoughts of the person that examined the photos).
I feel like the latter is unlikely, but I don’t have enough evidence to say either way. I don’t think drug paraphernalia in a photo or admitting past drug use are good reasons to refuse entry either.
- so dude came to help reducing the amount of drugs available on the streets and got kicked out? smh
- Border Patrol have been denying people that admit they smoke weed for decades now. It’s nothing new.
Left yes. Right no.

Funny meme but it's worth noting that he wasn't denied entry to the US for the meme. It was because they found messages between him and his drug dealer.

Trump loves dictators and is trying to emulate them.

- I mean the first person they mention in comparison is Putin who isn't an Asian
No one was ever deported/denied entry to China because they had a Winnie the Pooh image on their phone.
Yeah, dude thinks Orban is #Goals. He certainly wants the longevity of Putin and the immunity of Netenyahu as well.