• superkret@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    Since this work contained positive depictions of gay men, explicit (by Chinese standards) gay sex scenes, and resurrected the ghost of Tiananmen Square, at the time, no mainland Chinese publisher would have published it, nor would the author be safe from government reprisals. Hence, its anonymous publication on the Internet.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lan_Yu_(film)

    Ah, such a free and progressive society!

    • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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      9 months ago

      so much better than america, where it just wouldn't be made in the first place

      • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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        9 months ago

        It's heavily astroturfed by the US government, so your sarcastic comment was accidentally correct tito-laugh

      • Maoo [none/use name]
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        9 months ago

        Try fixing that section, which is entirely speculation, and see how quickly it gets reverted and by whom. You'll quickly run into either a power user with reactionary politics that should've been banned ages ago per Wikipedia's own policies or a series of FirstWordLastWord962578 accounts making reversions with no explanation.

        The latter is what lazy government behavior looks like. The former is the larger social structures built around the acceptability and empowerments of reactionary thought and narratives that is inherently anticommunist.

        But really, go do it. Remove the section as speculation and show/tell us what happens.

    • Maoo [none/use name]
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      9 months ago

      Wikipedia article speculation cited as fact on lemmy dot net.

      Western propaganda is a series of clowns honking each other's noses all the way down.