Chinese censors block ‘Tiananmen’ image of athletes hugging
Chinese censors block ‘Tiananmen’ image of athletes hugging
Picture of athletes’ ‘6/4’ race numbers erased in perceived reference to 1989 massacre
A photograph of two Chinese athletes hugging after a race has been censored on Chinese social media because the women’s race numbers inadvertently formed a reference to the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989.
How fragile is their regime if it is threatened by race numbers?
I guess it is more like an demonstration of power to censor even just two random numbers.
This may sound stupid, but from the view of a government this is actually advantageous. Better censor something before it can be used by the resistance as an identification mark that flies under the radar than to let it gain relevance have your late censorship get even more public attention than it would have otherwise.
They are own goaling their economy with these counter productive pencil pusher jobs that provide zero or negative input to the economy.
Real estate crisis, reduction of jobs especially in the younger population, lack of investment from overseas because of zero covid for too long forcing companies to move supply chains and that's before picking a fight with everyone causing uncertainty which makes it less investable.
Cutting down the "private" sector which provided the majority of the jobs because that would threaten pooh bear.
It'll make China weaker in the long run, but the people in charge won't care, they'll be long dead before then. All the people in the top powers are all multi billionaires, even if they lost 95 percent of their wealth they would still live extremely comfortably.
As for the general populace, I like to use the Kim Jong Un anology - a fat man within a nation of skinny men. Not really of importance to the ruling elite.
How fragile is their regime if it is threatened by race numbers?
Yes.
i wasn't aware about that number, now i am, thanks china
Fuck the ccp
Based AF
Remember China disappeared Naomi Wu
Wu has been absent from social media since June 2023, reportedly after receiving a police visit due to her public criticisms of Signal and Chinese keyboard apps.
She's a public face. For every Naomi Wu there are a hundred others that get disappeared every day, for equally benign thing. Fuck the CCP. Fuck Tankies.
I'm pretty sure China disappeared a LOT more people than just her.
I worked for a software company that had a customer in China. Our system had a standard set of emoji that included the world flags. In order for us to keep them as a customer we had to give them a special build without Taiwan's flag because it was illegal.
I would not be surprised if the Chinese government just skipped from June 3 to June 5 and made June 31 days long.
Something something streisand effect
Doesn't work that well when most of your Chinese cousins also act mad for this disgraceful and disrespectful act.
FUCK YOU XI the Pooh
64 is forbidden number now?
Nintendo fans in shambles.
No one tell the Beatles.
Is that why shitty Chinese microprocessors are all 32-bit?
“Eternal vigilance is the price of maintaining a dystopian totalitarian shithole”
Do stacks of items only go up to 63 in the Minecraft Chinese release?
Why is 6/4 a refence to the 4th of June when China doesn't use that date format?
In Chinese, we usually read out a date with year first, month latter and days after it. For example, if it's 4/6/1989 , we would say 一九八九年六月四日 (year 1989, June, day 4). I think there's not any relation with date format we use.
I mean yeah ok "silly china" but, god that sucks for Wu.
Not good for anyone when someone gets disqualified.
I thought it was customary to just restart the race when there's a false start.
this world is really dumb sometimes
Uploading this image for future reference of 6/4.
Ah yes, I wonder if anything happened on the 65th day of April, in the square close to the place which the sun rises...
Nothing happened. That's why nobody is ever allowed under any circumstances to reference that day, because there is nothing to say about a day which never happened. Perfectly logical and not suspicious at all.
Like idk. Doesn't the censorship of that specific location and day specifically draw people's attention and make it more fascinating?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Lin Yuwei and Wu Yanni, China’s entrants in the women’s 100m hurdles final, embraced after the race at the Asian Games in Hangzhou.
Internet censorship in China, particularly of images, is often done on an ad-hoc basis with human monitors deciding which posts to restrict.
In 2017, Weibo, one of China’s biggest social media platforms with nearly 600 million monthly users, said it employed 1,000 “supervisors” to report on “pornographic, illegal and harmful” content.
That Wu had been allowed to run at all prompted concern that race officials were reluctant to disqualify one of China’s star athletes, regardless of sporting rules.
Mark Dreyer, a China-based sports analyst who was in the stadium for the event, wrote afterwards: “It just felt like the local officials needed to find a way to let Wu run”.
On Weibo, posts from ordinary netizens showing the greyed out squares of Wu and Lin’s “6/4” hug, the comments were more muted.
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These summaries are usually decent from what I’ve seen but this one misses out some important information. The fourth and fifth paragraphs of the summary make no sense without the context that the athlete was disqualified for a false start and then still allowed to run.
Yeah this one is a terrible summary... it doesn't say what the article is about, at all.
Can't be right all the time though.