Censorship is often necessary, and even beneficial, when the alternative is the mass distribution of misinformation or spam. If you had to parse every email your account received, rather than dedicating a big chunk of it to the “junk mail” folder, the service would lose much of its utility.
the amount of effort the CCP puts into hiding its own history
I would be curious to know the number of Chinese citizens who know about the Tienanmen protests relative to the number of Americans who know about the US sponsorship of Contra Rebels in Nicaragua or our CIA’s admitted role in international cocaine trafficking.
Americans fixate on Tienanmen precisely because its one of the only things they do learn about in public school. US/Chinese relations practically begin and end with Tienanmen Square. What Americans don’t realize and won’t accept is that this subject is discussed ad nauseum within the Chinese historical community, but traditionally from the basis of accounts provided by the Deng government.
This is in the same way that, say, US education on the Pearl Harbor bombing or the JFK Assassination or the 9/11 attacks are taught from the perspective of US state scholars and politicians.
All of the censorship is bad. This mem le/joke is funny because of the amount of effort the CCP puts into hiding its own history from its people.
Censorship is often necessary, and even beneficial, when the alternative is the mass distribution of misinformation or spam. If you had to parse every email your account received, rather than dedicating a big chunk of it to the “junk mail” folder, the service would lose much of its utility.
I would be curious to know the number of Chinese citizens who know about the Tienanmen protests relative to the number of Americans who know about the US sponsorship of Contra Rebels in Nicaragua or our CIA’s admitted role in international cocaine trafficking.
Hell, consider that most Americans can’t find Iran (or North Korea) on a map. This, despite Americans having an overwhelmingly negative view of our designated Foreign Enemies.
Americans fixate on Tienanmen precisely because its one of the only things they do learn about in public school. US/Chinese relations practically begin and end with Tienanmen Square. What Americans don’t realize and won’t accept is that this subject is discussed ad nauseum within the Chinese historical community, but traditionally from the basis of accounts provided by the Deng government.
This is in the same way that, say, US education on the Pearl Harbor bombing or the JFK Assassination or the 9/11 attacks are taught from the perspective of US state scholars and politicians.
The Tianmens square is most relevant in this thread because it is a meme thread about exactly that.
I would suggest that more Americans know about Wuhan’s biolab and wet market than know about Tianmen square.
I am sorry for my bad spelling.
My junk folder is not really comparable to Governments censoring history.
What’s funny is that rumors of a highly contagious flu-variant were springing up around the Ft Detrick biolab in Maryland months before the outbreak in Wuhan. This information has been entirely blotted out of US News services in large part because American counterintelligence flagged it as a means of propagating Chinese branded COVID Propaganda.
Libertarians keep telling me that America.gov is a problem but America.com is the solution.
Big “all lives matter” energy