• Neato@kbin.social
    152·
    2 年前

    I don’t understand why the pro China tanked subs would get banned but not the rest.

      • 1bluepixel@lemmy.worldEnglish
        463·
        2 年前

        This is exactly it.

        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 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.

        • vidarh@lemmy.worldEnglish
          171·
          2 年前

          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.

      • ttmrichter@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        2 年前

        “China” isn’t “embarrassed” by lemmy.ml or hexbear.net. “China” just shuts down access to non-Chinese social media sites as they are discovered. Any social media site that isn’t currently blocked in China is on numbered days until they are blocked, whether “pro-China” or “anti-China”.

        • ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          2 年前

          This is true. I was kidding. That said, the Chinese government does engage in social media. And they probably would see lemmy users as a poor messenger, if they cared about lemmy.

    • redballooon@lemm.eeEnglish
      261·
      2 年前

      They might spread western ideas of communism in China. That’s not something China can allow.