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[–] breadguy@kbin.earth 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

i will be honest I think the CCPs handling of censorship regarding the event has actually made the narrative worse

[–] TrustedFeline@hexbear.net 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Internationally, sure. But look at what happened with internet conspiracy culture in the US. It's basically taken over the government at this point, and widened the cultural divides that already existed. China's heavy-handed censorship makes more sense when viewed in this light (preventing the internet from making society insane)

[–] breadguy@kbin.earth 10 points 1 week ago

I knowww but it irks me personally so they should reconsider

[–] miz@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

can you be more specific? the government released a report at the time (only translated into English by Mango Press a few years ago) and the 6-4 incident is not some kind of forbidden knowledge in China

This publically available official government document has been manually translated by our native Mandarin-speaking staff to disprove the western lie that this event is covered up by the state.

[–] dead@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I watched the China Ministry of Foreign Affairs press conference this morning. Two news agencies (Japanese NHK and French AFP) asked questions related to "Tienanmen Square Incident". I thought the response from the FM on the questions was pretty good. Then I looked at the MFA website, and the questions had been omitted from the press conference transcript. I'm honestly kind of confused why China omitted the questions from the record. I've never noticed them do this before.

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=bsq-9fVxXFQ

English audio comes out of the right speaker. Chinese audio comes out of the left speaker.

At 21m10s, NHK asks China why they have not compensated families of the victims of "Tienanmen Square Incident". The FM responds by saying that the people of China have chosen the path of Socialism with Chinese characteristics.

At 23m40s, AFP asks China to respond to Marco Rubio's recent social media posts about "Tienanmen Square Incident". The FM says that Marco Rubio is distorting facts for a political attack against China.

In the transcript below, these parts of the conference have been omitted. I'm not sure why.

https://www.mfa.gov.cn/eng/xw/fyrbt/202506/t20250604_11640779.html

[–] breadguy@kbin.earth 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

the most recent and blatant example I can give is LLMs hosted in China (eg. deepseek, qwen) are legally disallowed from even talking about it.

[–] miz@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

legally disallowed

afaik this decision was taken by the company that made deepseek for international relations purposes, do you have a source (not RFA) that indicates the government passed a law or made a regulation?

[–] breadguy@kbin.earth 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] miz@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

cool well it's important not to encourage stupid bullshit to spread. meanwhile Meta squelches any mention of Palestine

[–] breadguy@kbin.earth 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

there's always an excuse, it's still shitty and harms good faith conversation

[–] miz@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

good faith conversation

let me know when you find one because I don't see that moving the needle in the Great Satan

[–] breadguy@kbin.earth 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

you ever played sekiro? you're kind of sick at deflecting

[–] miz@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
[–] breadguy@kbin.earth 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

true, did you wanna say anything besides like slogans or

[–] miz@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

nah I'm just enraged rn because I saw a video of a Palestinian double amputee child and Matt Miller's smirking face within the same few minutes

sorry for not being more helpful

[–] breadguy@kbin.earth 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't blame you, it's hard to be online these days

[–] miz@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago