Picture of athletes’ ‘6/4’ race numbers erased in perceived reference to 1989 massacre
  • Something Burger 🍔@jlai.luEnglish
    247·
    1 year ago

    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?

    • duviobazEnglish
      10·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • Anonbal185@aussie.zoneEnglish
        9·
        1 year ago

        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.

        • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafeEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Huh? Do you think America doesn’t have pencil pushing leaches?

          They’re called business degrees…

          At least talk about their over production of housing or something.

          • Anonbal185@aussie.zoneEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            Well let’s see, I don’t know because I don’t live there. Not everyone/everything lives in/revolves around America.

            In any case I’ll bite then. Everyone I know who’s in business degrees are of minimum big 4 or in an investment bank at a minimum, the smarter ones have their own small business.

            Are you seriously saying those are less productive than someone who censors information and makes it harder for people to conduct business?

            And to your second point the overproduction of housing is two fold, firstly it’s one of the very few investable resources there and second the local government needed to sell the housing to raise taxes and needed to build despite demand or lack of due to keeping people in a job.

              • Anonbal185@aussie.zoneEnglish
                1·
                1 year ago

                So if small businesses aren’t what you call producing anything of value then what would you consider would be something that does produce something of value? Out of curiosity.

                Because those small businesses are providing services to the community/other businesses which wouldn’t be able to function without them. That’s not the case with the censorship pencil pushers the businesses there would be able to function better without the extra layer of bureaucracy.

                And big 4 accounting and investment banking is required, they fill a market in outsourcing by providing expertise where it doesn’t make sense for every company to have a full time employee on it. Good for short term projects the places I worked in all use them. Investment banking well you have to spend money to make money so yes they’re providing value by providing the investment for other businesses to grow.

        • wurzelgummidge@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          Lol, the Asian Games have been a roaring success in Hangzhou for nearly two weeks. From a spectacular opening ceremony to the joy of the athletes competing in an open and friendly environment, it been studiously ignored by the so-called global media yet they wallow in this like pigs in shit.

          You all love to call anyone who is vaguely pro China (or anywhere else US/Nato doesn’t like) shills but the whole of western corporate media are nothing less.

          https://youtu.be/HXyqXsDmVNs?feature=shared

          Have fun with the video then downvote me like the free person that you are.

          • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
            17·
            1 year ago

            “Sports games are successful therefore don’t care about the censorship” is not the sound argument you think it is.

            • wurzelgummidge@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              1 year ago

              Anything that could possibly show China in a potentially positive light is routinely ignored. That is censorship.

              • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
                10·
                1 year ago

                I see. So one kind of censorship is bad and another kind of censorship is good. How do I tell when it’s the good kind of censorship?

                • wurzelgummidge@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  3·
                  1 year ago

                  I didn’t say censorship was good, I said western media will pick up any shit it can find in order to bash China while ignoring anything positive that might come from there. It’s not just China, they do the same for everywhere that US/Nato doesn’t like. A small handful of corporations controlling everything you know about the world.

  • Hubi@feddit.deEnglish
    63·
    1 year ago

    Imagine a government being so weak and thin-skinned that they have to censor two digits next to each other

  • Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social
    40·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • gmtom@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    1 year ago

    Why is 6/4 a refence to the 4th of June when China doesn’t use that date format?

    • KEISEI Skyliner Enjoyer@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      17·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    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.