Kodak Removes Instagram photos of Uyghurs' Mass Imprisonment in Xinjiang and Apologizes After Being Snipped by Chinese Netizens

Kodak, a camera equipment company, published photos of Xinjiang taken by a French photographer on Instagram. The post mentioned Xinjiang Uyghur human rights issues, causing dissatisfaction among Chinese netizens and left many messages under their Instagram account. Kodak then deleted the photos and published a statement at midnight, emphasizing that the post was not written by the company but by the photographer. They pointed out that their Instagram “is designed to promote creativity, not a platform of commencing politics" and apologized for the misunderstanding and offence caused by the post.

Chinese netizens forwarded the post to Weibo and launched a crazy flood to Kodak and Wack's accounts. Many Chinese netizens left messages on Wack’s posts “talentless and catch the eyeballs ideology” and “regardless how beautiful the picture is, if bias comes in place, the photographer will put a layer of filter on it”. Some Chinese media criticized, “Under Wack’s lens, the magnificent of Xinjiang is attractive but also carrying hidden messages”. Somebody supports him and praises his shots under his posts.

Source: Stand News #Jul20

https://bit.ly/3xoFpJr

#China #Xinjiang #Uyghurs #Kodak #Wack #HumanRights #Instagram #Weibo

German Media Criticized China as a “Soulless Medal Factory”,
14-year-old Gold Medallist Practices Diving Hard for her Sick Mother

Tokyo Olympics ended on 8 August which China is almost the champion for having the most Olympics gold medals. However, its “national system” of training athletes to win glory has been controversial. Suddeutche Zeitung recently described China as a “soulless medal factory” in an article. The 14 years old Olympics champion Quan Hongchan, also known as the “diving genius”, was mentioned in the previous interview that she was tricked into diving due to her poor academic results and the incentives to get medical treatment for her sick mother. She has to dive more than a hundred times a day and nearly 300 times on land that she only stay at home during the holidays and has never been to amusement parks or zoos.

Some Weibo netizens lamented the poor treatment of athletes by the national team and felt very distressed. After she won the award, many Chinese snack brands offered to give away her favourite snack, and some mainland companies also gave away a house, a shop, and RMB $200,000 in cash.

Moreover, a Weibo public account, “Middle-Class Life Observation”, posted a comment, but was being banned at the moment, stated that because Quan was too young to be sensible to thank the party and the country. Instead, she directly said that she once wanted to give up but revealed her wills to make money to treat her mother’s illness by working hard. However, she had no idea what kind of disease her mother has as she did not know how to pronounce those words. It is questionable that Quan, who started diving at the age of 7, may not receive a good education at all, making her speech “difficult to beautify”.

Source: Stand News #Aug07

https://bit.ly/3ybucw8

#Olympics #Tokyo #China #Germany #Diving #Weibo #Athletes #Education #QuanHongchan #Diving #SuddeutcheZeitung

#PopMusic #Censorship
Top Ranking Song Mocking Chinese nationalists Banned in China and Delisted from HK-based streaming app

Malaysian rapper #Namewee and Taiwan-based Australian singer #KimberlyChen Fang-yu rolled out a Mandopop song titled "#Fragile" (玻璃心, or literally meaning "#GlassHeart"), on Youtube in mid-October 2021.

The term "glass heart" is commonly used to describe nationalist Chinese netizens who become easily upset when a social media post attacks the Chinese Comminist Party (#CCP).

While the song can be interpreted as a love song, the music video satirizes the CCP and nationalist Chinese netizens
(aka "#LittlePinks") through the extensive use of the color pink, simplified Chinese subtitles, and a giant and clumsy panda.

References are made to China's claims to Taiwan, bat soup representing COVID19, the Great Firewall, and #XiJingping's latest political campaign Common Prosperity.

The song hit the internet with an overwhelming popularity, receiving over 10 million Youtube views in just first few days.

The pro-China netizens criticized the lyrics for "inflicting insults on China", leading to both the ban of the singers in China and the removal of their #Weibo accounts.

In response, Namewee wrote on his Facebook page pointing out that the song has reflected a general trend as more people are realizing CCP's oppression and encroachment. The artist said, "[this song is] not so amazing, it's just a mirror."

Commenting on the freedom of expression in artistic creation, Namewee said, "If I have to give up creative freedom and my ideals, this goes against any artististic pursuit.  I would rather stop creating."

Namewee added in his comment that with the growing number of supporters, he would consider leveraging their influence to resist and protest against authoritarianism.

He said, "I believe if one remains silent in the face of iron fist, it would foster and reinforce them [authoritarianism]. Until one day, the iron fist hits your head as it spares no one."

On October 27, 2011, the Hong Kong-based music app, #MOOV, was found delisted the song from its app. Netizens slammed the music app, calling it "#FragileMOOV".

Source: Stand News #Oct25; as1 entertainment #Oct27

https://thestandnews.page.link/v8e74czAgLL9oV6Z8/

#PopCulture #PopSong #MandoPop #MOOV #Delist #Creativity #Art #Culture #MusicVideo #Ban

Big V’s speech being banned: Ren, Ze-Ping, the Chinese famous economist, speech being banned for involving publication of “printing money to encourage births”

Ren, Ze-Ping, the Chinese famous economist published the theory of “printing money to encourage births” which asserted the Central Bank to print 2 trillion RMB and spend 10 years’ time to encourage the society to birth 50 million babies to solve the labour and economic problem in China nowadays, the relevant speech triggered tremendous dispute. Chinese media found on Wednesday that Ren’s weibo and weixin public account were banned. Some analysis thought that his speech not only unassisted to solve the economic problem in China and would affect the stability of the society.

Ren, Ze-Ping, the former Heng Da Group Chief Economist who has 3,756,000 fans published the the theory of “printing money to encourage births” which asserted disputes. China media found on Wednesday that his weibo account showed “the account was in the status of being banned speech because of violating relevant laws and regulations” and his weixin public account, “ze-ping macroscopic” was banned as well. According to the report from Securities Times, Ren Ze-ping’s weibo and weixin public’s speech were banned two weeks, and other accounts from alternative media platforms were not affected.

Analysis: speech not only unassisted to solve the economic problem in China but also influences society stability

China Finance scholar pointed out that nowadays the economic downward pressure is very big and the Trioka which pulls economic growth (i.e. consumption, investment and import & export) lost their power, in addition with the severe trend of population aging, the eligible labour force is far behind the expectation from external general anticipation. But he thought the speech of Ren not only unassisted to solve the current problem and influences the society stability of China.

Source: RFA #Jan13

https://www.rfa.org/cantonese/news/baby-01132022062917.html

#RenZePing #Economic #Banned #Weibo #Weixin

Mocking US of pandemic failure, Xinhua net's post in Weibo elicit overwhelming criticism from China netizens

The Chinese state media Xinhua net official Weibo posted an article this week criticising the US again for "being ineffective in pandemic spread prevention", saying that "the cumulative number of cases confirmed in the US exceeds 60 million" and that "netizens lament the failure of the US to fight the pandemic". The post, those comment section was open, triggered an overwhelming criticism from netizens accusing the China government of its brutal implementation of the Covid-Zero policy. Xinhua net eventually close the comment feature, and the comments from self-media were also blocked.

China's pandemic trend has always been a sensitive topic, any discussion on such social issues is often blocked by internet administrators. However, criticism of US pandemic treatment has been an exception. On Monday (Jan 10), the Xinhua net mocked US failure in pandemic policy for having more than 60 million confirmed cases.

Source: RFA #Jan13

#Covid19 #XinhuaNet #Weibo #US #China

https://www.rfa.org/cantonese/news/comment-01132022063623.html

"Let's Say We're Japanese": Chinese in #Ukraine Fear Retribution after Insulting Posts from #ChineseNetizens

As Russian armed forces invaded Ukraine, numerous Chinese netizens made posts in support of Russia. Some posts even sarcastically said, "beautiful ladies of Ukraine, come to China".

These posts have drawn the ire of the Ukrainian public, according to a video by a Chinese student who said he was living in Ukraine. "They're a bit emotional about this," he said. Chinese living in Kyiv have begun telling others that they're Japanese; "We don't even dare to call ourselves Chinese anymore."

He called on China's "keyboard warriors" to show restraint, and stop offending the Ukrainians.

The student quoted posts made by Chinese netizens, such as: "Good for Ukraine to have a war; the more deaths the better. This way I could have an Ukrainian mistress." Local media have reported about these posts, complete with translations; "basically, all Ukrainians know."

In shelters, locals would ask Chinese students like himself about the posts, and whether Chinese people are really like this. As a result, many of them don't dare to take shelter in the metro stations with other Ukrainians.

"Give us a little chance to survive," he implored his audience in China. He said that when Ukrainians in Kyiv asked Chinese citizens where they are from, "We say we're Japanese. We don't even dare to call ourselves Chinese anymore, all thanks to you. Do you need a wife that badly? You've lost your humanity. So many of them are dying in the war; how dare you say "good for them" because you might get an Ukrainian wife."

With a sigh, he concluded: "If Chinese people here get beaten or shot to death, it will be thanks to you keyboard warriors."

Since Friday, Feb 25, 2022, China's social media giants #Weibo, #WeChat, and #TikTok have begun censoring accounts that made such offensive remarks. Weibo announced that they processed 542 such posts, and deducted social credit scores of 74 accounts. Tiktok said that it had processed 6,400 videos that have violated rules, and terminated 1,620 live streams.

Source: In-Media HK #Feb27
https://bit.ly/3IDPdFG

#RussiaInvasion #Ukraine #China #LittlePink #SocialMedia

A Finnish Athlete Calls for help due to a Big Water Leakage in the Athletes' Village; Chinese Official Requests to Delete the Video

In addition to the game results arguments, the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics also has issues outside the field.

Katri Lylynperä, a Finnish cross-country skier, recently shared her 2022 #Beijing Winter Olympic life on #Instagram Stories. Some of the stories showed a large amount of water was rushed out like an open water tap from the ceiling of her room, flooding her room in seconds, being able to make splashes with her feet. Her room and the walkway suddenly become a "sea view suite" with indoor rain from the ceiling. She Reluctantly called for help.

She even made jokes about it, "We have a waterfall here, and the flooding issue will be solved soon".

Soon after the video being posted, the first reaction of the authority was not to solve the leaking issue but to ask the athlete to remove the post. The handling method attracted many people saying, "They thought the whole world was using #Weibo (a Chinese microblogging website)", "lmao, China has got used to deleting others' videos".

Source: FTV news #Feb12

https://bit.ly/3prywWD

#Finland #AthleteVillage #KatriLylynperä

#CCPcontrol #Censorship #Silencing
Furious Chinese Netizens over City Lockdown posts National Anthem "Rise Up" to Protest, and are Promptly Blocked on Weibo

With the widespread of #Omicron in Shanghai, the Chinese government is responding with a tougher stain on the lockdown of the city, leading to public discontent and resistance.

Many Chinese netizens used the first line of the national anthem, "Rise up! Those refuse to be slaves", as a hashtag and posted it on #Weibo to express their anger. This was blocked by Weibo later on, which is ridiculously tantamount to making the national anthem a forbidden word.

It was found later, after searching on Weibo, that the national anthem is still searchable, but the search results would be blanked if the keyword is a hashtag of the national anthem.

This is not the first time China has banned its national anthem. Back in the early days of the #COVID19 outbreak in #Wuhan, when 'whistle blower' Dr. Li Wenliang died, Douban.com banned the lyrics of the same song for "containing radical current affairs or ideology".

Source: Whats News Media; #Apr21
https://www.whatsnewsmedia.com/8796/16/08/45/

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National Flag Guard – Doctor LI Wenliang was died due to the systematic speech controls, which he believed in and supported
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/16978?single
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#Racism
Chinese man held over #racist videos and claims his aims to spread Chinese culture

A Chinese filmmaker wanted by Malawi as part of an investigation into allegations of racism and child exploitation has been arrested.

#LuKe was a #Malawi resident when he was exposed by #BBC #AfricaEye, which reported he had used local children to film personalised greetings videos, some of which included racist content.

These videos can be bought for up to $70 (£55) on Chinese social media and internet platforms.

Lu Ke denied making derogatory videos.

He said he made his videos in order to spread Chinese culture to the local community.
In one of the videos seen by the BBC, a group of young children is made to chant - in Chinese - "I'm a black monster. My IQ is low", clearly unaware of what they are saying.//

Read the full article:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-61862619

Source: BBC #Jun21

#ChineseInternet #SocialMedia #Weibo #Weixin #Africa #ChineseinAfrica

Cyberspace Administration of China: Already Held 30 Large IT Companies' Algorithm Technologies

Cyber Administration of China (#CAC) indicated on #Aug12 that 30 top IT companies have submitted part of their algorithm details, such as how to collect personal data and how to set up individual recommendation content. 

Companies includes #Tencent, #TikTok under #ByteDance, #MeiTuen, #iFeng, #Weibo, #Youku, #Kuaishou, #Baidu, #Sina, #Xiaomi, #WeChat, and #Tmall and #Taobao under #Alibaba.

#Bloomberg report stated that China can have full grasp of every move done by the citizens on the internet, and even all purchase detail and personal information can be seen clearly via the relevant enterprises and applications.

The CAC passed the regulations on algorithm recommendation in March this year, requiring all enterprises to reveal the algorithm used in every application.

Nominally, they can solve the issue of data misuse and enhance cyber security. But once when the authority obtained algorithm technology, they can take further control over web activity and carry out political propaganda.

They even can take "National Security" as an excuse, to obtain citizens' and companies' information.

Source: PC Market #Aug17
https://www.pcmarket.com.hk/china-netcom-algorithm-technology-of-30-technology-giants-has-been-mastered/?fbclid=IwAR3nrfecOdr8bYlAdIkaE3S783sF8pEprBrq_7Jg46s3lLXzzi1Pv8aSX0k

#CyberAdministrationofChina #surveillance #NationalSecurity #Webtracking #AlgorithmTechnology