Re:Midjourney CEO Silencing Satire About Xi Jinping
by epups on Monday April 03, 2023 @02:55AM
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Unfortunately things are not so simple. You can find satire of Xi Jinping on TikTok right now: https://www.tiktok.com/discover/xi-jinping-winnie-the-pooh?l..., but not on Midjourney anymore. So, ironically, banning TikTok would suppress speech critical to the CCP more than banning Midjourney, a US company.
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Re:Midjourney CEO Silencing Satire About Xi Jinping
by jacquesm on Monday April 03, 2023 @02:59AM
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> So, ironically, banning TikTok would suppress speech critical to the CCP more than banning Midjourney, a US company.
The ban would be outside of China. Speech critical of the CCP is only really effective if it reaches inside of China and banning TikTok outside of China would have a negligible effect on the other side of TGF.