hello weary traveller. please won’t you sit amd rest a while
Yeh I know, thanks for the reminder though. I’m keeping in mind the friends following along at home, who may be undecided about this kind of stuff, and trying to put forward a relatively sourced, evidential argument for them, not necessarily goat. I myself was swayed by lurking on forums like this. I’m not nearly as good as other comrades but it’s honest work.
G “China banned Winnie”
R “No they didn’t and here’s evidence”
G “Oh I’ll choose to ignore that”
G “The USA doesn’t censor online political speech”
R “Yes they do and here’s a directly relevant example to our discussion from the self proclaimed ‘front page of the internet’”
G “Oh you’re just a shit posting community that doesn’t count”
You completely cave from every point in the face of scrutiny. Do you have any shame? You retreat every time and just throw out another glib line. Thanks for the thought dulling discussions mate.
Taking a break from this to eat dinner. I’ll draft something up after that, since, yes, the USA does ban memes. Why do you think r/cth was removed, precipitating us to move to Hexbear? ‘Slaveowners should be killed’ meme is basically about the USA.
“Trade quotas are only evil when non-western countries use them” “Online moderation of politically divisive and inflammatory material is only authoritarian when non-western countries do it”
I’m sure you were in tears when Jan 6 destroyed American democracy and cheering when the HK parliament was stormed by the same reactionary elements. Head-ass shitlib.
No. One movie didn’t receive screening approval. China limits import for screening of foreign films to 34 a year. I’m not talking Hollywood films, I’m talking all foreign films. The Christoper Robin movie in 2018 didn’t make the cut after it had a disappointing box office and critical reception in Western markets. The IP still remains popular in China because Winnie’s cute.
Yes. The memes associating President Xi with Winnie are banned. You won’t find them on Weibo, for example, where they’ll be likely taken down. Weibo strictly monitors political discourse online and routinely removes content that is aggressively polarising, especially around major political events like the Two Sessions. This is partially at the behest of the government and partially a responsibility towards its userbase.
Some provocative political content is monitored and censored, and we’ve always known that, however, Winnie is not, as you originally said. This is a bald faced orientalist lie and it shows how hollow it is, seeing how quickly you had to abandon it in the face of readily available English language evidence.
https://www.shanghaidisneyresort.com/en/attractions/adventures-winnie-pooh/#
Leaving the url in full as it should be self explanatory
Ik :'(
“I envy you. You North Americans are very lucky. You are fighting the most important fight of all. You live in the belly of the beast.”
And? You want to rope me into a schoolyard scrap? Contemptible. At least OP has a legitimate gripe.
They didn’t call you a shithead though? They said since federation, we have also had to deal with an influx of people whose views we find objectionable. I think they’ve explained themselves sufficiently to resolve that misunderstanding, and I’m sorry that you thought you were being called out individually.
Aye, likewise 🙏
I don’t think they were calling you a homophobe or transphobe in their comment? They are talking more generally about how Hexbear users make no apologies for responding to bigotry with ridicule.
We got a few of these spooky cuties :)
BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEEEEP
In what way is calling a street in NZ by an Indigenous name in any way equivalent to the violent dispossession of life and land wrought by colonisation. You’re right, you’re pathetic.
Sorry, I deleted this comment since I think our instance has requested us to not post top level comments in other instances’ threads discissing defederation with us (iirc). I moved it to iridaniotter’s comment. I can restore it if you need for context?
I never thought something so lukewarm would provoke such a response.
Who they choose to federate with is totally their choice, and I’m sure that - despite any protestation from my behalf that it’s a functionality spurious label - I’ll be branded a tankie, so probably going against the Code of Conduct here.
Shame that I’ll no longer see content from my cousins across the ditch if they do split, but them’s the breaks I guess.
Hey I wrote that post. The person I was responding to said Winnie is not allowed in the PRC at all, which is false. I then went on to acknowledge that Winnie is censored in other contexts, especially online. Please represent the conversation accurately.