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“China is censoring CNN!” CNN isn’t available in China in most areas in the first place due to their history of lying about China ([Ex.] [Disproof]); [Ex.] [Disproof]; ([Ex.] [Disproof]); ([Ex.] [Disproof 1] (China DID deny the authenticity of the documents) & [Disproof 2])—this isn’t all but I think I’ve made my point. There are even lies in the brief clip CNN posted: claim: Xi gave Qin Gang the position of foreign minister (this isn’t true; the National People’s Congress elects the foreign minister, with Qin’s removal occurring due to majority decision by the Standing Committee of the NPC, which is elected by the NPC); they claimed that Xi Jinping “puts people in place” that he can control, despite no examples, with the further notion that “the whole system revolves around him”, despite no explanation. CNN’s select broadcasts in China have frequent interruptions not only due to censorship, although spreading misinformation might be the reason in this case. Some commenters have even had the braindead revelation that this confirms the report, since if it was false they would let everyone be misled?? This idea obviously doesn’t make sense, but it’s anti-China so it doesn’t matter.
There’s also the frequent tendency to see censorship very simplistically, with it usually only being viewed as a retroactive affair (as seen in the concept of book banning). It’s an offshoot of the notion of the abolition of history, with the present conditions seen as a reflection of blind rationality, and so the status and scope of CNN (owned by the Warner Media corporation of course, as Fox News is owned by Fox Corp., The Washington Post is owned by Jeff Bezos, and so on, all with no introspection whatsoever on the part of their readers) is merely “how it is”, with any restrictions placed on this fact only then seen as an exertion of “censorship” on the blind natural law of the press.
Also love the 1984 reference in another comment; anti-Semitic works like it will be quoted until the end of time by liberal chauvinists. The quote itself is fine on its own, but its appropriation is awful (and lends itself to the book’s anti-Semitic foundation), somehow arguing that the true distortion is the struggle against it.
You're calling 1984 anti-semitic because of Emmanuel Goldstein, aren't you? Way to totally miss the point of why Orwell chose that name for that "character."
So weird that you’re speculating on why I said that as if I didn’t embed a link in the sentence which clarifies this (see section: George Orwell’s Very British Anti-Semitism). And no, it has nothing to do with Goldstein (Trotsky stand-in who never actually appears and may not be real, yes I’ve read the book). What’s weirder than your comment is the fact that five people liked it, which to me indicates that people disliked my comment not because it was incorrect but because it was correct and clashed with their views, ushering in minute pedantic criticisms which aren’t even correct, that people then blindly like in the belief that this somehow discredits my comment and removes it from consideration.
Edit: No way is this comment already in the negative upvotes lmao; the person I'm responding to was incorrect and misrepresented my position purely because they didn't go through the effort of clicking the link on my comment before responding. There is no argument that can possibly be made for them being correct. How is this level of cognitive dissonance even possible?