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China cracks down on ‘uncivilised’ online puns used to discuss sensitive topics
(www.theguardian.com)
Crickets from the ML crowd
this post was submitted on 23 Oct 2024
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Hopefully you can follow that link. Ml mods removed the article lmao.
Edit. Holy shit, they banned me from .ml all together for posting the article! It wasn't even lemmygrad ml, it was just the ml world news comm. Lmao.
The reason was "rule 1", which is:
Please only post links to actual news sources, no tabloid sites, etc.
That's hilarious
Of course, The Guardian - the famous tabloid without any actual news lol
I think you're supposed to accept only articles from the Grayzone, and those without any fact checking whatsoever.
Basically anything out of an ML mouth I distrust. If they’re trying to promote china and destroy the west, they’re doing a really shitty job at it.
You can bet that their mascot users post links from the same source
Yup. There are four articles from the guardian on that comms front page right now.
They see nothing wrong with this because “it’s necessary in the short term”.
You know, like state capitalism!
"This is western propaganda, actually everyone can write what they like. Furthermore censorship is necessary to keep capitalist lies out of the country, so being banned from criticizing the government is a good thing."
Took me a moment to realize you weren't talking about Machine Learning
Haha, that would make the sentence very confusing!
The wrongthink list just keeps growing and growing
I hope these poor souls learn to use TOR and a VPN
It’s more complicated than that. Your isp knows when you use a vpn. Your isp sometimes knows when you use tor. That’s why end to end encryption is so important. But in china, these activities are banned. So connecting to the wrong vpn could get them in trouble.
I hope these poor souls get a new damned government.
It's ironic that they need to line the CCP against a wall.
While having a conveniently sized wall right there.
They only use that wall to catch stray bullets when executing Muslims.
Clearly you have never been to China. It can take extra steps to VPN
China could just make explosive collars that read minds and when the thought criminals have that thought that crosses the line; boom.
No more thought crime after the first few weeks AND a boost to employment for a month or two as the janitorial service backup with work.
You're welcome, China.
Now that's an old thumbnail picture. Android 4.x on an old-style LG phone, along with the "green blocks" design play store (just after the android market rebrand)
I’m not an android guy. How old?
Android 4 was the reunification of Android 2 for phones and Android 3 for tablets. I think it coincided with the launch of the original Nexus 7 and Google Assistant, and I think I was installing third-party Android 4 builds on one of the first US phones with 4G LTE.
Android 4 released in 2011
Likely the article author (or editor) simple searched their stock photography subscription with the keywords "chinese text on smart phone" and went with the first result.
Imagine demanding that the world make sense to you.
That's not really an accurate translation of 傻屄 (shǎbī), it's a very vulgar way to say "stupid cunt", and you'd usually substitute the second character for, e.g., 比/逼 or even an actual "B" because the character itself is considered offensive (meaning components are 尸 "body" + 穴 "hole/cavity", worsened by the fact 尸 is actually the "corpse" radical).
Move along, nothing to see here.