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If we treat what rural Chinese people are doing nowadays as standard operation, the westerners are just barbarians. Don't waste time on these non sense, lets decide which one is "STANDARD"
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Can't say I like it either but:
"Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—things like article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting."
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#555I can see how this might backfire. You notice a censored jump and start to feel the itch of curiosity as to what it concealed. I had to watch several of the censored scenes whereas I would have never just randomly watched clips of the show. Also, love the presentation on this page.
We (the HN crowd, often living in less-censored societies) would be very curious. I’d like to know how curious this would make non-HN people, and those living in more censored places. My assumption is that they take it for granted and just continue to watch the show. It might be hard for them to even find the uncensored clips.
in my observation (and it might not be correct), most of ppl around me doesn't even care which part has been censored, watching those sitcoms are just a way to kill time after all. however, you could find those censored clips on some video platforms where censorship is not so strict since there is no clear guidelines about what should not be exist.
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#556I’m fairly certain this happens in the US as well. I distinctly remember The Office censoring a few bits - notably the Belsnickel bit from season 9.
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I think the downvotes you're attracting give some indication for the HN crowd.
Not a single one of those stories was suppressed by the government in the U.S., which is what the article details happening in China. In fact many government officials supported and promoted those stories.
Disagreement among private parties, or getting less private promotion than you wanted to get, is not “censorship”. It’s free speech in action.
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#559The solution to this is, of course, piracy. I'm glad people like those on /r/DataHoarder preserve media in their complete forms so I don't have to watch them censored. A recent example is Community which has an episode of a character dressing as a dark elf, and the joke is that another character assumes it's blackface, even though it's not. Well, networks and streaming services now removed it and unless you have the…
And of course Netflix has started covertly editing older episodes of their series.
There may come a day where the Berenstain Bears Mandela effect is the result of a legitimate conspiracy to change all the publicly available media.
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I was never a big fan of the show, but emphasizing stereotypes is a very common, often very effective form of comedy. If that's not your cup of tea, that's fine -- I tired of it quickly and stopped watching -- but that doesn't mean it's inherently wrong.
I don’t consider stereotypes funny. America has a really bad history when it comes to shows propagating racial stereotypes. People finding a stereotype funny is not a good reason to air it on national television. Jim Crow was a stereotype which plenty of people found funny 80 years ago, we don’t find it funny anymore(it was never funny), as we see it for the truth. It was an untrue racist portrayal that harmed Black…
> I don’t consider stereotypes funny. America has a really bad history when it comes to shows propagating racial stereotypes. People finding a stereotype funny is not a good reason to air it on national television.
As stated by OP, this is a subjective opinion: The enforcement of a particular viewpoint on the issue of portraying someone from [insert country/background here] is not an easy problem to solve.
Stereotyping will inevitably occur as a result of generalization & snapshots of an intended (X := culture/background/country/activity/etc): They're the result of picking the most commonly-seen & widely-known/believed aspects of X at that point in time & adding their stylizations to it, in an effort to conserve mental energy when it comes to recalling aspects of X. While bad stereotypes will definitely exist, to dismiss it as an outright "bad" is an overly broad stroke of opinion: They will exist because at that point in time, the stereotypes were relatively accurate to them when it came to portraying X.
> Jim Crow was a stereotype which plenty of people found funny 80 years ago, we don’t find it funny anymore(it was never funny), as we see it for the truth.
...There's a paradox in the "it was never funny" statement: If it was never funny to them, it wouldn't have been that popular in the first place - Either it was funny enough then to still be remembered & now be considered a (racist depiction)/(heavily-negative-stereotypical mimicry) in the Western world, or that it wasn't funny & consequently forgotten about right then and there. Various other states can exist in between the 2 aforementioned extremes, but it must've been funny enough to them to still be noted down in the written word.