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China Regulator Bans TV Parodies Amid Content Crackdown (reuters.com)
China's media regulator is cracking down on video spoofs, the official Xinhua new agency reported, amid an intensified crackdown on any content that is deemed to be in violation of socialist core values under President Xi Jinping. From a report: The decision comes after Xi cemented his power at a recent meeting of parliament by having presidential term limits scrapped, and the ruling Communist Party tightened its grip on the media by handing control over film, news and publishing to its powerful publicity department. Xinhua said video sites must ban videos that "distort, mock or defame classical literary and art works," citing a directive from the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television on Thursday.
Censorship produces a downward spiral, where each attempt to control produces new ways of lawful disobedience. The end result is complete authoritarian tyranny and a standing army of resistance fighters. Get the popcorn, as this process will be fun times to watch and seems to be snowballing quickly.
As if those had any value to begin with. Protect the garbage!
How very dull. No Trump stories at all?
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Wonder if this has to do with all the media purchases the Chinese have been making recently here in the USA. Good to know that Hollywood will be supporting the Communist agenda shortly...
simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.
Isn't it great!!
CAPTCHA: property
Someday China will have a big civil war. Hopefully.
This sounds like the caricature bad-guy dictatorships in "V for Vendetta" or even "Escape from LA". To fix this we need either:
1) Snake Plissken and a black glider
OR
2) Hugo Weaving, a subway, a lot of fertilizer, and a map to China parliment
Heavy handed punishment for any thoughtcrime that goes against the ideology of the ruling elite is Google, Facebook, & Apple's job dammit!
AntiFA: An abbreviation for Anti First Amendment.
All Hail Emperor Xi.
This is not a parody.
"Winnie the Pooh doesn't know what to do"
Gee, who thought Kenny Loggins wrote literary classics? ;)
It's not that I don't think that China can do this, or that I don't think that China would do this.
It's that I find it laughable that China thinks it should do this. I hold them in derision. I have lost respect for them. Again.
But it's only about the bajillionth time they've done something pants-on-head retarded in their censorship regime, so none of this is actually news.
The Reuter article does not even bother to link an original source, or am I just suppose to take their words for it?
Humor, and especially satire, is a corner stone of an enlightened civilization.
Pull that stick out of your ass -- because censoring humor and preventing people from poking fun of the establishment does NOT help people get over "taboo" topics, dogma, or corruption any quicker. In fact it has the opposite effect and makes things WORSE. By removing a "safe" avenue to eventually provide a road to discuss sensitive issue all you've done is force the issue underground.
Congratulations (see I was being _sarcastic_) on convincing the rest of the world that you are a bunch of dumb asses -- while we laugh at your stupidity.
What you resists, persists
There is a BALANCE between the Individual and the State -- too bad you will never learn this.
That's one way to keep all the American cable news channels out.
Russia is going the same way!
Well, I can see that the new Emperor of China intends to squeeze so hard that there'll be a persistent chilling effect on any sort of creativity. Guess he thinks he'll just be able to keep stealing creativity from the West ad infinitum.
How could they do that! That could never happen in the free world, here you are free to express any opinion in the name of democracy. This is doubly true for satire/comedy! No WAY anyone could get into trouble for teaching a dog a few funny tricks!
They can control parodies about the gov, but they have no means of controlling out and out stealing of IP.
Makes sense.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
I guess Al will have to avoid China from now on...
"Hmm. I am to metaphor cheese as metaphor cheese is to transitive verb crackers!"
Where are we going to get these cultural classics now?!?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgyVBL8zjmc - MJ - Beat It
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vgHZQBUjd4 - usher-yeah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vgHZQBUjd4 - Gangnam Style
When politics is banned, everything becomes political. Significance will be attached to the smallest things.
We will indeed see at least a partial Cultural Revolution. And certainly a personality cult.
Can the Chinese economy continue to grow at a fantastic rate under that oppression? They are already discouraging their students studying overseas.
Very bad for the Chinese. And very dangerous for the rest of us.
UK is now no better than China,
Yes, in the UK we are strictly forbidden from parodying our beloved leader as 'The Maybot' or calling our Foreign Secretary an 'Idiot toff'. This comment does not exist and if did I would be off for re-neducation by now.
In other words, you're an idiot or a Chinese troll trying to derail discussion of your country's foul dictators and their thought police.
No, you instead get UK police allowing child molesters to continue on their own business out of fear of being branded racist,
you get Facebook users taken by the police for condemning a Muslims stating that white women are only good for fucking and being disposed of like garbage afterwards while he enjoys his time, and you are banned from parodying Islam. You also get porn blocks like glorious China, copyright infringement which jails people for pirating songs for more years than pedophiles get for raping kids.
Take a hike out of your ass Anglo, maybe your visage will improve then.