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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Wu9fee@lemmy.ca to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/6763330

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/6763328

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/6137607

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[-] GONADS125@lemmy.world 222 points 1 year ago

I'm not happy with this development, but I'm slightly amused by the irony being that lemmy.ml is pro-china and has been moderated as such.

[-] Cqrd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 193 points 1 year ago

Hexbear might as well be the CCP propaganda wing, this development is fucking hilarious

[-] Kaldo@kbin.social 69 points 1 year ago

I was curious what lemmy.ml has to say about this but it seems the linked post was deleted in the meantime 🤡

[-] averagedrunk@lemmy.ml 31 points 1 year ago

It's my fault. I signed up for it before I realized it was a pro China instance and the other day I said I'm not a Communist.

[-] socsa@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago

I feel like I might have legitimately helped as well by mocking them incessantly for being campists and not socialists

[-] KillAllPoorPeople@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Why aren't you a communist?

[-] Wu9fee@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 year ago

The poster was banned for trolling but I saw a comment showing that it is real.

[-] ttmrichter@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago

It is definitely blocked.

Source: I'm in Mainland China.

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago
[-] Marsupial@quokk.au -2 points 1 year ago

Saying that is what China wants.

You’re reaffirming the one China policy and keeping the status quo.

Conflating Taiwan and China means Taiwan can never move onto independence.

Taiwan seems very independent already though and the vast majority of the world feels the same way.

[-] fkn@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

This took a major hit just a few years ago when the UK officially backed out.

It looks like this info is out of date based on a quick search. https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-parliament-calls-taiwan-independent-country-report-says-james-cleverly-visit-china/

That said, UK support or not seems to have had little to no impact.

[-] YeetPics@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Taiwan is its own country, always has been. china would be lucky to be known as the geographical-offshoot of Taiwan.

[-] Neato@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago

I don't understand why the pro China tanked subs would get banned but not the rest.

[-] ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.works 55 points 1 year ago

Even China is embarrassed. You ever had someone defend you but really poorly? Ya.

[-] 1bluepixel@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is exactly it.

I'm moving to China for work, so I'm interested in alternative points of view on Chinese society from the usual U.S. mainstream media CCP hate boner. I checked out hexbear, and... my goodness.

They cheer for a version of China that the Chinese themselves would be embarrassed by. It's clearly driven by 14-year-old white boy edgelords who are enamored with a hardcore Marxist-Leninist vision of China that never existed, most likely in reaction to a dislike of modern Western capitalism. I mean, they referenced "struggle sessions" with nostalgia and cheer for Bashar al-Assad because China is being friendly to him.

Real-life China is quite different from the depictions you see on main Lemmy instances, but it sure as hell isn't anything like what the tankies are jerking off to, either.

[-] vidarh@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

It feels like most Western CCP cheerleaders are basically cheering on a pre-Deng version of the CCP and haven't quite noticed that the CCP of today would totally purge anyone pushing the pre-Deng/pre-1978 views of the CCP.

[-] ttmrichter@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

"China" isn't "embarrassed" by lemmy.ml or hexbear.net. "China" just shuts down access to non-Chinese social media sites as they are discovered. Any social media site that isn't currently blocked in China is on numbered days until they are blocked, whether "pro-China" or "anti-China".

[-] ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

This is true. I was kidding. That said, the Chinese government does engage in social media. And they probably would see lemmy users as a poor messenger, if they cared about lemmy.

[-] redballooon@lemm.ee 25 points 1 year ago

They might spread western ideas of communism in China. That’s not something China can allow.

[-] chaorace@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

Communism with western characteristics?

[-] redballooon@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Communism as understood by one who has read Marx and isn’t interested in the details of creating it.

[-] throws_lemy@lemmy.nz 8 points 1 year ago

Right? I and others were also banned from talking about China and Uyghurs on world news on lemmy.ml

https://lemmy.world/post/5697017

[-] mojo@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago
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