John Oliver is erased from Chinese internet following segment on China
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Re: John Oliver is erased from Chinese internet following segment on China
#2The Ministry of Truth has no record of one "John Oliver"[1]
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_hole
Re: John Oliver is erased from Chinese internet following segment on China
#3Did they remove him from hacker news too?
Re: John Oliver is erased from Chinese internet following segment on China
#4Is John Oliver any more important than all the other things that China has banned?
Or is this just something that happens to be popular which creates outrage even when it's not nearly as bad as other things that China censors?
Re: John Oliver is erased from Chinese internet following segment on China
#5Is John Oliver any more important than all the other things that China has banned? Or is this just something that happens to be popular which creates outrage even when it's not nearly as bad as other things that China censors?
The interesting thing is that because John Oliver is not really a big deal, the Chinese government shouldn't waste its time silencing him.
And yet they did!
Re: John Oliver is erased from Chinese internet following segment on China
#6The Ministry of Truth has no record of one "John Oliver"[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_hole
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Re: John Oliver is erased from Chinese internet following segment on China
#7The "ephemeralness" of the internet is still a huge, huge problem. We've only started to scratch the surface of the issue, and between censorship, "right to be forgotten" and linkrot, it's already a complete shitshow.
We need a distributed and censorship-resistant conservancy system, because the Wayback Machine can only do so much (and it can trivially be censored). Unfortunately, it's not a money-making enterprise.
Re: John Oliver is erased from Chinese internet following segment on China
#8Is John Oliver any more important than all the other things that China has banned? Or is this just something that happens to be popular which creates outrage even when it's not nearly as bad as other things that China censors?
I guess a lot of people enjoy his style of "humour" where he randomly insults people, countries or cultures for no apparent reason.
Re: John Oliver is erased from Chinese internet following segment on China
#9That's entirely predictable given that was explicitly John Oliver's objective. The real question now is when will this experiment implode? Isn't there a theory that totalitarian states must inevitably collapse?
Re: John Oliver is erased from Chinese internet following segment on China
#10The Ministry of Truth has no record of one "John Oliver"[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_hole
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