Wu9feeOct 7, 2023

lemmy.ml has been banned in China mainland

https://lemmy.ca/post/6763422

lemmy.ml has been banned in China mainland - Lemmy.ca

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/6763330 [https://lemmy.ca/post/6763330] > cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/6763328 [https://lemmy.ca/post/6763328] > > > cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/6137607 [https://lemmy.ml/post/6137607] > > > > > now users must use VPN for login lemmy.ml [http://lemmy.ml]

Show threadGONADS125Oct 7, 2023
I’m not happy with this development, but I’m slightly amused by the irony being that lemmy.ml is pro-china and has been moderated as such.
Show threadNeatoOct 7, 2023
I don't understand why the pro China tanked subs would get banned but not the rest.
Show threadImFresh3xOct 7, 2023
Even China is embarrassed. You ever had someone defend you but really poorly? Ya.
Show thread1bluepixelOct 7, 2023

This but unironically.

I’m moving to China for work, so I’m interested in alternative points of view on Chinese society from the usual U.S. mainstream media CCP hate boner. I checked out lemmy.ml and hexbear, and… my goodness.

They cheer for a version of China that the Chinese themselves would be embarrassed by. It’s clearly driven by 14-year-old white boy edgelords who are enamored with a hardcore Marxist-Leninist vision of China that never existed, most likely in reaction to a dislike of modern Western capitalism. I mean, they referenced “struggle sessions” with nostalgia and cheer for Bashar al-Assad because China is being friendly to him.

Real-life China is quite different from the depictions you see on main Lemmy instances, but it sure as hell isn’t anything like what the tankies are jerking off to, either.

Show threadvidarh
It feels like most Western CCP cheerleaders are basically cheering on a pre-Deng version of the CCP and haven’t quite noticed that the CCP of today would totally purge anyone pushing the pre-Deng/pre-1978 views of the CCP.
Oct 7, 2023 at 5:06pmWeb