Posted on 11/09/2024 5:27:31 AM PST by BenLurkin
China’s Cyberspace Administration and Ministry of Education has begun what they call the Clear and Bright Campaign to prune the web in China of what they consider “irregular and uncivilized language.”
The language bureaucrats aren’t just watching for criticism of President Xi, mentions of the Tiananmen Square massacre, or demonstrations in Hong Kong. They want to extinguish the seemingly innocuous phrases many Chinese have ingenuously appropriated to express dissent.
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Xiang jiao pi, which is banana peel in Mandarin, has the same acronym as the name of President Xi. The word for shrimp moss is xia tai, similar to the Mandarin phrase for “step down.” When someone on the Chinese web dares to declare, “Banana peel shrimp moss!” it is heard as a call for President Xi to step down.
When a Chinese censor finds an “irregular” phrase, they eliminate it, but call it “harmonizing”. He-xie, the Mandarin word for harmony, sounds like the word for river crab, and so people who have been censored report they have been “river-crabbed.”
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Never forget that wannabe tyrants including Pierre Trudeau and Gavin Newsom admire Red China. This kind of thing is why. They want this kind of power.
Tim Walz looks at this and laments what might have been.
What does NPR know about free speech? Do these azzholes have any sense of irony?
Honest, I'm just a huge Nascar fan.
Liberals are almost always deficient in a sense of humor, irony, and sarcasm...
I tried to order Chow Fun, a broad noodle, and apparently it also means let’s start the revolution. Much chaos ensued.
River crab chow fun?
That’s what they call John Kerry in his so-called Swift boat. The river crab.
Centuries ago one of the Chinese dynasties tried something similar, regulating everything to death with swarms of government busy bodies.
The government collapsed after about 70 years because nothing could get done.
I fear this is why “artificial intelligence” wanted.
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