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China Trials Its First 3D TV Channel
rtoz writes with the news that Chinese viewers will soon be able to watch a 3D TV channel service, to be opened in late January. Excerpting: "The first stations for the 3D trial are China Central Television, Beijing Television, Tianjing Broadcasting TV, Jiangsu TV and Shenzhen TV. 3D programs will be offered daily from 10:30 am to midnight. The programs include animation, sports, documentaries, TV dramas, entertainment and live broadcasting of big events, such as CCTV New Year's Gala and the London 2012 Olympic Games. The stations will charge no viewing fees during the early phase of operation."
It's roughly translated to "Woman Read Chairman Mao To Inspirational Music In Front of Picture of Chairman Mao." And I hear it looks *amazing* in 3D.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Well, there was a Chinese film crew that had seen Primer and been influenced to re-write it into a Chinese version (the biggest difference being that the men in the movie were actually very successful and content and auspicious electronics line workers at a nearby Foxconn plant). But then China's State Administration of Radio, Film and Television finally read the screenplay and were pretty sure there was some form of time travel involved. The film crew has been reassigned to film a documentary at the China/Afghanistan border where a team of ill equipped officers fight drug traffickers with nothing more than the irrepressible spirit of the People's Republic of China. The twist? The film crew are the officers!
My work here is dung.
When will we start treating China like we treated Kim, or Hussein, or the Taliban? China isn't just some tin-pot dictatorship: it's well organised and its oppressive influence is global.
Are we really at the stage where we abandon morality to technocracy? Are we all so full of ourselves that we think we will come out of this as the slave-driver rather than the slave?
You could just as well replace 'China' with 'the United States.'
Big-time censorship in three dimensions.
Neither you nor I know much about how the Kims behaved: information coming out of NK is so tightly controlled that we are basically relying on western propaganda.
The Taliban - the religious fanatic element is insane, but the majority of the Taliban comprise people who are worked up against occupying forces.
Hussein - no, I'd put China on a par with Hussein: both corporate secular dictatorships with little notion of freedom; brutal to dissenters; keen to preserve ownership of various previously autonomous regions despite loud objections. Well-educated, rich, silent individuals can go about their business fairly freely in China, just as they could under Hussein.
The difference is that Hussein was successfully contained and his sphere of influence was relatively small. His position maintained regional stability, tempering Iran. China, on the other hand, is a military bully to its neighbours and an economic bully to the world, and its position comes precisely from the fact that it is a nation of slavedrivers and slaves, able to manufacture cheaply because it treats the majority of its citizens as subhuman. We must reject China before we become as China.
The Chinese government may not be a leader in human rights, but nor are they close to Hussein.
No, they just occupy other 1000 year old countries like Tibet and claim they're just waiting to be "freed" by the PRK. Oh, and there was that thing in Tianamen Square.
Python: 'And then suddenly you have a language which says "we're all stuck with whatever the whiniest coder wants".'