I lived in china for 4 years and Winnie has Def never been outlawed. Chinese censorship is much more sophisticated than "hey, that's illegal." There's not a list of pictures or memes or phrases that if you're caught with you'll get a visit from the police. No no no. There are hundreds of thousands of people monitoring social media for the latest "subversive" trends. When a new trend develops that content is blacklisted and just not allowed to be spread. You'll send your friend a picture and it never shows up on their phone. There's no indication on your end that it didn't send or they didn't get it. You can have this content on your phone, the CCP doesn't care. They care about it spreading. And you'll never get in trouble for trying to spread it because the system doesn't allow it to spread.

[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That's actually kinda cool in a techno dyatopian kinda way.

[–] tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 2 points 6 months ago

I was going to say horrifying.

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Seems more like Huxley than Orwell.

They get you with inconvenience instead of brute force.

[–] Sandouq_Dyatha@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

stop talking about novels like they're historical studies or facts

[–] _lunar@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

it's a massive fucking lie anyway; anyone who's been to china can tell you they have winnie the pooh merch in every fuckin' shop. winnie the pooh is very popular there.

[–] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago

I think the top comment is the real answer on this.

There is censorship in China, as well as in the west. They just operate very differently.

In the west, outside the US, I think it'd be fairly easy to argue there's more censorship in China. (Even with the pretty depressing clamp down on right to protest, and suppressing of anti-israel speech in many forms happening at the moment)

Equally though, people massively overblow what censorship is actually like in China. I'm not gonna get disappeared next time I go to China just for this comment. Or even if I overtly criticised the government on real-name social media.

tl;dr "China bad!" and "China so good!" are both equally annoying positions to find on the internet.

Reality is nuanced, but that doesn't seem to make people happy.

[–] Flyberius@hexbear.net 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm literally in a Chinese hostel right now with a Winnie the pooh mattress.

[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 1 points 6 months ago

You fool, the CCP thought police unit are going to backtrace your photo and execute the hostel owner and their entire bloodline now!!!!

[–] Yetanotherpaolo@feddit.nl 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Makes sense, ones an inoffensive cartoon, the others a cunt who should die.

[–] liuther9@feddit.nl 1 points 6 months ago

Reddit admins would have permabanned for this comment though their masters are doing same comments inflicting violence but IRL. Love lemmy for free speech

[–] twinnie@feddit.uk 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Didn’t this turn out to be fake?

[–] Grimtuck@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

No, his face really does look like that

[–] tfm@europe.pub 1 points 6 months ago

More proof he looks like this