Current Events > What happened to the Free Tibet movement?

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Ironically (not sure now, haven't been back there since February of last year), GameFAQs isn't banned in China, so you don't even need to use a VPN to shitpost on here from there. Though I am told things have gotten much stricter since them.

But yes anyone using country X did a bad thing therefore it's okay for country Y to do a bad thing is being disingenuous and obviously a shill. I have had nationalists in China tell me they support California independence and when I tell them sounds good, if they want independence they should get it they can't comprehend it. My wife's nationalist cousin always tries to get us on Japan with some gotcha like "Okinawa used to be part of China" or "the Japanese government did X bad thing, how can we support them" and when we say Okinawa should be allowed to be independent or join China if they want (and the people very much do not want to be part of China) and that we don't support the current government he just dismisses us as talking nonsense. A lot of nationalists really can't imagine not picking some country and being blindly loyal to it.

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There are just too many things for the CCP to ban. A web forum composed mostly of 30+ year old users who are mostly not Chinese isn't much a threat to get on the CCP's radar. I suppose they could make the Chinese Internet run with a whitelist instead of a blacklist, but that could cause issues in itself.

Also, apparently South Park was not explicitly banned in China until a few years ago when "Band in China" aired. I suppose the show usually makes fun of America so it might of been seen as device to show how terrible America is.

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YellowSUV posted...

There are just too many things for the CCP to ban. A web forum composed mostly of 30+ year old users who are mostly not Chinese isn't much a threat to get on the CCP's radar. I suppose they could make the Chinese Internet run with a whitelist instead of a blacklist, but that could cause issues in itself.

Also, apparently South Park was not explicitly banned in China until a few years ago when "Band in China" aired. I suppose the show usually makes fun of America so it might of been seen as device to show how terrible America is.

This is true. My wife used to watch it there, but the not explicit ban doesn't mean it was airing legally, just that pirate sites could host and discuss it. It's the same with My Hero Academia and a number of other anime. Basically you have not airing (usually can still access it illegally, making it not air legally is basically a punishment for the company, since the fans will all pirate it now) and explicitly banned (no allowed discussion of it on Chinese sites, not allowed even to pirate it). But banned things will still be used frequently by using a VPN (though these are getting harder to use). For example there is a Chinese legal Steam, Chinese legal Switch, Chinese legal PS4. But almost no one uses them because you only have like a dozen legal games on each. So instead you import them from Taiwan or Hong Kong (with Steam you just download the international version and for some reason it still lets you pick Mainland China and use RMB). However a game might get banned, meaning importers get cracked down on (this happened with Animal Crossing on Switch).

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