- cross-posted to:
- china@lemmygrad.ml
- cross-posted to:
- china@lemmygrad.ml
It must be pointed out that banning BBC World News has nothing to do with freedom of the press. Does the so-called freedom of the press the West advocates mean media outlets are free to produce lies and launch politically motivated suppression against a target while being immune from any punishments? If so, China doesn’t need such freedom of the press. The Western media has no moral high ground to criticize China over freedom of the press.
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For all you folks who are complaining about China being scary or censoring “real news,” please realize that the UK did not renew the CGTN’s license in the UK a week before China took their action.
Whatever your belief is in “state journalism,” you absolutely have to realize that the CGTN and BBC are the same kind of news agency.
If you have evidence that the CGTN is more biased than the BBC is (careful searching, you’ll probably discover the opposite is true), please feel free to provide sources. Otherwise, recognize this for what it is. A refusal of each nation to allow the other to spin news in their respective countries.
Hell yeah!
It seems that the BBC is getting all the attention in China… https://nitter.eu/Jingjing_Li/status/1360505385904267270
哈哈哈！新闻自由难道允许假新闻报道？
That’s sad :(
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Julian Assange… ehhhm…
Is strange how people have faith on governments. Politicians can be trusted, but you can’t trust a government.
Nor a corporation… :-)
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How’s China any worse? All of the surveillance they do, the U.S. does too, as far as their global expansionism, they use soft power much more than hard power.
I am reminded of…
Why are anti-China even in this community? Lmao. These folks should go to literally any other community with their anti-China propaganda with no evidence or sourcing. This isn’t reddit.com/r/China. We should expect people to have sources to back up their bigotry.
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You’re anti-US, but you believe the US propaganda…?
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You take criticizing China as liking the US which is not the same. Both suck :/
If you want to criticize China, I am open to that. Just make sure it doesn’t exactly resemble U.S. propaganda at a time when they are escalating their anti-China rhetoric, not because of human rights (the U.S. has a horrible record, for example more people are in prison in the U.S., than in China, which’s a larger country), but because of geopolitical dominance.
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The US has its major injustices, but it doesn’t round up political disagreers (oh, dear Chelsea Manning would like to differ…), and Muslims and send them to re-education camps where they torture and murder them…
Ever heard of https://news.un.org/en/tags/guantanamo-0?
It was you, who first claimed China is worse (a comparative, not an equating statement)…
The US doesnt reeducate Muslims, instead they drop freedom bombs on them. Wait, why is that better???
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China did not ban winnie the pooh. You can literally go to on winnie the pooh themed rides in Shanghai, or buy winnie the pooh things on ali-express.
Secondly this isn’t reddit, we aren’t going to allow racist caricatures or orientalism here.
I can’t imagine how incomprehensible this whole thing must be to Xi Jinping.
China banned Winnie the Pooh nation-wide
Winnie the Pooh was never banned in China, it’s just another ridiculous lie drummed up by the West to rile up Westerners against China.
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Animal Crossing is not banned in Hong Kong, but rather in mainland China. Apparently because the people involved at the Hong Kong’s side used a form of ‘dehumanizing’ language against the mainland people, what that means I do not know.
Still, I do not think the ban was needed, nor necessary, but that is a matter for the people of mainland China to decide for themselves, because they understand their own culture best.
Even more context: https://www.slashgear.com/china-bans-animal-crossing-new-horizons-but-its-complicated-10616317/
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Yeah, in saner countries in the world we don’t ban entire products or services just because unrelated people post controversial messages on them. : /
Again, you are sadly mistaken: https://www.osnews.com/story/24074/us-government-censors-70-websites/
