Re:Shanghai video overwhelms Chinese censor, gets 400M views
by cturner on Monday April 25, 2022 @02:15AM
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Revolutions use angry young men as fuel. China's young men population is proportionally small. Further, due to the legacy of the four-grandparent-policy and Confucian respect-for-elders tradition, the young that exist have high family responsibilities. Perhaps there will be something new in China - something that comes from the same place as revolution but without the testosterone.
There are a lot of protests in China we don't hear about.
Something about Chinese (in China) ... leads me to think they go big on memes. They revolt unlike anything we know of.
Do you remember the video form Feb 2020 in Wuhan? The madness, hospitals flooded?
Imagine all over China.
As long as the economy is steaming forward, people will look the other way.
But as soon as that starts to slow down, then I think it's going to get hot.
Edit, for my naysayers:
"The number of workers' strikes rose to a record level in 2015. The China Labor Bulletin mentioned 2,509 strikes and protests by workers and employees in China."
That's just labour disputes and doesn't include disputes concerning appropriated land, safety issues with products - i.e. the kinds of things where there's some tolerance for dissent. [1] And note that it's increasing every year.
Especially due to the power of Social Media, if China didn't have censorship the CCP would be out within months. They are well aware of this.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protest_and_dissent_in_China