Re:China regulator bans TV parodies amid content crackdown
by loceng on Friday March 23, 2018 @10:57AM
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What I wonder is if their system system is so efficient at censorship/control, if there are very dark things going on which don't have the opportunity to make it to see the light o day - or if 99.999999999% of the population is being treated fairly and benefitting fairly from the systems they've implemented.
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Re:China regulator bans TV parodies amid content crackdown
by adventured on Friday March 23, 2018 @11:15AM
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I'd like to know what the condition of these people is:
"At least 120,000 members of China’s Muslim Uighur minority have been confined to political “re-education camps” redolent of the Mao era that are springing up across the country’s western borderlands, a report has claimed."
With Xi assuming total power, there has to be a legitimate concern regarding what might be about to happen.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/25/at-least-12000...
Re:China regulator bans TV parodies amid content crackdown
by dTal on Friday March 23, 2018 @07:35PM
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Well, they do harvest organs from "political prisoners". I'd say that's pretty dark. I don't know if the official denial that this is occuring counts as "censorship" though.
Re:China regulator bans TV parodies amid content crackdown
by nhurj on Friday March 23, 2018 @04:37PM
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The goal of censorship isn't, usually, to control information as such. It is to enforce certain behaviors. People on Hacker News has the wrong idea about how authoritarian states work, largely based on cold war propaganda. But it's not really a discussion worth having on HN since any attempt at framing it in a way that people could understand would be accused of shilling. You will have to find some other way to get that information.