Forwarded from Archiving Irish Diversity Stuff (AIDS)
IRSP showing where their loyalties lie by putting the Tricolour under the red flag on Good Friday.
https://twitter.com/irspireland/status/1514992741427601410
https://twitter.com/irspireland/status/1514992741427601410
Forwarded from Punisher Briefings (Elizabeth - Punisher's Minime)
Report: Things Go Terribly Wrong for Chinese Social Media Censors as Netizens Hijack Gov't-Approved Topics
For those who believe the human spirit and ingenuity can get around censorship of public speech in despotic regimes, here’s an ice-bucket-in-the-face reality check: Censorship wins almost all of the battles.
Oh, it may lose the war, God willing. But when it’s firing on all cylinders, censorship is almost always able to keep people saying the “right” things, preclude anyone from saying the “wrong” thing and/or crush the people who won’t comply. In truly authoritarian regimes, in fact, I’d estimate censorship has about a 99.9 percent win rate.
Every now and then, however, freedom scores an impressive victory — even against China.
Weibo banned a hashtag titled “buying groceries in Shanghai” April 8 as frustrated users lamented their inability to buy basic items. After the hashtag got too popular, it was blocked, and searching for it yielded a message that “no results can be found.
This backfired, badly. A widely shared post showed a screenshot of the “no results can be found” page with the sarcastic caption, “Good news! The problem of ‘buying groceries in Shanghai’ has been completely solved." This led to plenty of sarcastic responses under the post, commending the Chinese authorities on their “speed” and “efficiency” in rectifying the problem.
And then, the censors lost even more control as Chinese social media users, for just a few hours, got to unleash their wrath on the Chinese government for how they handled the Covid crisis in Shanghai and other social issues.
It seemed that many netizens had had enough of the Chinese government’s attempts to escape criticism by focusing on how bad the West/US is. So they occupied the hashtag ‘US is the biggest country of human rights deficit’, to express their anger at the state.
One user talked about the human rights he enjoyed thanks to high housing prices and interest rates combined with low pay — along with the so-called “996 work environment.”
Another: “Yeah we seal people’s doors, kill pets, waste medical resources so patients with more urgent needs miss the opportunities to be treated, but our death number is zero!"
Some also brought up the women who were chained up in a rural village and gave birth to eight children. But they intentionally replaced ‘China’ with ‘US’ and pretended to be shocked at this kind of things happening in America and said ‘I was so lucky to have been born in China.'
For a brief moment, the Chinese citizens beat the censors. The propaganda backfired and got hijacked. It doesn’t happen often, however, and the censors know how to come back harder.
If you had a chance to glimpse it, though, you got to see a crack in the Great Firewall. And it was glorious.
https://www.westernjournal.com/report-things-go-terribly-wrong-chinese-social-media-censors-netizens-hijack-govt-approved-topics/?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=westernjournalism&utm_campaign=telegramfeed&utm_content=2022-04-19
https://t.me/PunisherWarRoom
https://t.me/PunisherBriefings
For those who believe the human spirit and ingenuity can get around censorship of public speech in despotic regimes, here’s an ice-bucket-in-the-face reality check: Censorship wins almost all of the battles.
Oh, it may lose the war, God willing. But when it’s firing on all cylinders, censorship is almost always able to keep people saying the “right” things, preclude anyone from saying the “wrong” thing and/or crush the people who won’t comply. In truly authoritarian regimes, in fact, I’d estimate censorship has about a 99.9 percent win rate.
Every now and then, however, freedom scores an impressive victory — even against China.
Weibo banned a hashtag titled “buying groceries in Shanghai” April 8 as frustrated users lamented their inability to buy basic items. After the hashtag got too popular, it was blocked, and searching for it yielded a message that “no results can be found.
This backfired, badly. A widely shared post showed a screenshot of the “no results can be found” page with the sarcastic caption, “Good news! The problem of ‘buying groceries in Shanghai’ has been completely solved." This led to plenty of sarcastic responses under the post, commending the Chinese authorities on their “speed” and “efficiency” in rectifying the problem.
And then, the censors lost even more control as Chinese social media users, for just a few hours, got to unleash their wrath on the Chinese government for how they handled the Covid crisis in Shanghai and other social issues.
It seemed that many netizens had had enough of the Chinese government’s attempts to escape criticism by focusing on how bad the West/US is. So they occupied the hashtag ‘US is the biggest country of human rights deficit’, to express their anger at the state.
One user talked about the human rights he enjoyed thanks to high housing prices and interest rates combined with low pay — along with the so-called “996 work environment.”
Another: “Yeah we seal people’s doors, kill pets, waste medical resources so patients with more urgent needs miss the opportunities to be treated, but our death number is zero!"
Some also brought up the women who were chained up in a rural village and gave birth to eight children. But they intentionally replaced ‘China’ with ‘US’ and pretended to be shocked at this kind of things happening in America and said ‘I was so lucky to have been born in China.'
For a brief moment, the Chinese citizens beat the censors. The propaganda backfired and got hijacked. It doesn’t happen often, however, and the censors know how to come back harder.
If you had a chance to glimpse it, though, you got to see a crack in the Great Firewall. And it was glorious.
https://www.westernjournal.com/report-things-go-terribly-wrong-chinese-social-media-censors-netizens-hijack-govt-approved-topics/?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=westernjournalism&utm_campaign=telegramfeed&utm_content=2022-04-19
https://t.me/PunisherWarRoom
https://t.me/PunisherBriefings
The Western Journal
Report: Things Go Terribly Wrong for Chinese Social Media Censors as Netizens Hijack Gov't-Approved Topics
The digital revolt came after a lockdown in Shanghai left many unable to buy enough groceries to feed their families.
Forwarded from WhipLash347
Remember i said Processed Meats and always mentioned GREGGS.
Feeding you dead children like McDonald's
Look at all the Fires.
Feeding you dead children like McDonald's
Look at all the Fires.
Forwarded from 𝔽𝕣𝕖𝕖𝕕𝕠𝕞 𝕎𝕒𝕣𝕣𝕚𝕠𝕣𝕤
UK government to spend another £18 million to roll-out ‘Covid’ passports – ‘Covid’ is over, right?
https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/notice/054df563-77af-437e-8bec-5169997f5b5a?origin=SearchResults&p=1
https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/notice/054df563-77af-437e-8bec-5169997f5b5a?origin=SearchResults&p=1
Forwarded from Tommy Robinson News
Australians still living like this.
Until we're all free, nobody is free.
Until we're all free, nobody is free.
Forwarded from Wide Awake Media
Forwarded from LauraAboli (Laura Aboli)
French President Macron makes this campaign promise: "Europe must be ready to accept up to 60 million refugees over the next 20 years from Africa and the Middle East, as sanctions against Russia will lead to an economic collapse in Africa, which, in turn, imports a huge amount of Russian wheat."
This is the craziest statement I’ve read in... (I was going to say a long time, but lately it’s all crazy!) I guess it’s the craziest statement in the last 24hrs! Maybe someone should tell him the problem is over the minute he and his globalist friends lift the sanctions!
Honestly, lately these things just make me laugh! You can’t take this nonsense seriously! It feels to me like they are red pilling everyone by making their plans obvious! right?
https://t.me/LauraAbolichannel
This is the craziest statement I’ve read in... (I was going to say a long time, but lately it’s all crazy!) I guess it’s the craziest statement in the last 24hrs! Maybe someone should tell him the problem is over the minute he and his globalist friends lift the sanctions!
Honestly, lately these things just make me laugh! You can’t take this nonsense seriously! It feels to me like they are red pilling everyone by making their plans obvious! right?
https://t.me/LauraAbolichannel
Interesting stuff.
And if ur want to dig further into some of this, check out the work that Irish organisation ICLRD (International Centre for Local and Regional Development) has been doing over the last decade, formerly led by a Derry woman who now runs an NGO specialising in cross border work...with a particular interest in the Ukraine.
And if ur want to dig further into some of this, check out the work that Irish organisation ICLRD (International Centre for Local and Regional Development) has been doing over the last decade, formerly led by a Derry woman who now runs an NGO specialising in cross border work...with a particular interest in the Ukraine.