China launches campaign to keep killjoys off the internet

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c39r7p47wzgo

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riskable@programming.dev · 24 pts · 340d

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 340d (3 replies)

Pooh declaring war on Eeyore I see

IcedRaktajino@startrek.website · 1 pts · 339d

Lol, well, maybe if Eeyore would can it once in a while and just let people enjoy things....

manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml · -9 pts · 339d (1 reply)

Comparing a Chinese politician to a yellow cartoon character is racist and weird

gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 338d

Nah, when the same sentence has other Chinese people being played by a blue/grey cartoon character it's pretty clearly just targeting one person for being a chubby authoritarian doofus. Casual racism against Chinese people just because they're currently stuck with a shitty government is a problem, but I know I'm not doing that here.

Asafum@feddit.nl · 9 pts · 339d (2 replies)

... Lord knows that's going to help depressed people...

"Literally everyone is happy but me! There's obviously something wrong with me."

Much health, very help, wow.

manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml · -4 pts · 339d (1 reply)

The BBC reporting like "netizens in China may soon find posts hidden when sharing content like "life is pointless and we should all kill ourselves" " and people in this thread read that as "the CEECEEPEE is Banning people for being SAD", yep cool, the usual then?

and here I'm banned from a significant portion of lemmy.world for telling people to not post racist and misogynist bullshit

TheAvarageNerd@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 339d

I'm especially glad how this government campaign focuses on a clearly defined terminology that differentiates between trolly doom posting and affected people in a bad situation just expressing themselves online. It's great how they don't just use subjective terms like "negative content" or "sensationalized" or "trivial" , and then straight punish platforms for posts fitting these very wide terms. Cause you know, platforms definitely won't be overly careful with what they allow, when there's a threat of actual punishment. This is definitely a well thought out campaign, that's well thought out to take care of some unfortunate citizens.

Sinirlan@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 339d (2 replies)

More control... that should cheer the heck out of Chinese people...

chiocciola@lemmy.cafe · 6 pts · 339d

It sure makes the ML crowd salivate.

Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 337d

Well it worked was unbelievably profitable in the west, why not there too

TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone · -1 pts · 339d

Is it the program real or is it another "social credit score"?