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these already exist… it can only get better if china has better free speech because currently these exist only on the pro-china side. nationalism anywhere is suffocating but it feels worse in china when it’s a one-sided battle
there is. it’s just not translated as doxxing for some reason i can never understand:
An early human flesh search dated back to March 2006, when netizens on Tianya Club collaborated to identify an Internet celebrity named “Poison” (simplified Chinese: 毒药; traditional Chinese: 毒藥; pinyin: dúyào). The man was found out to be a high-level government official.
That doesn’t sound like a campaign of independent agents backed by the CCP to harass dissidents of the government. Just the opposite.
In December 2008, the People’s Court in Beijing called it an alarming phenomenon because of its implications in “cyberviolence” and violations of privacy law. Human flesh searches are banned under the law.
This is a radical departure from the American mainstream social media organizing that has often been encouraged, facilitated, and collaborated with by state and national government agencies.
these already exist…
Again, I’m sure there are folks on the internet with bad takes. I’ve yet to see an Alex Jones equivalent on the scale of “Mainstream, high profile internet show dedicated to denying the existence of school shooters as a pretext for imposing gun regulations”. When that kind of personality pops up on the Chinese internet, authorities tend to move quickly to censure and de-list their content.
And a Chinese Tucker Carlson? What would that even look like? A Reagan-Era Maoist with family ties to the PLA who maintains an enormous following of Millennial / GenA viewers built on the back of qigong enthusiasts criticizing Xi Jinping from the Left? Seriously, name some names. I’d love to learn more about this individual.
I’ve dipped my toe in the waters of Chinese media and you just don’t find these kinds of firebrand figures anywhere in the mainstream. If anything, my experience has been with very baby-brained paternalistic bullshit. Hour long shows that have people cosplaying as historical figures and a crowd of academics and talking heads all just nod along agreeing with one another. Entertainment idols and rising political stars jerking each other off to some banal socio-economic milestone or hagiographical rendition of past glories.
If American media is All Red Meat All The Time, Chinese media is unseasoned tofu. It’s a totally different atmosphere.
in the past ten years, human flesh searching most often targets those perceived to make anti-nationalist comments.
i’ll agree that it’s questionable if it has state backing but i completely missed your claim that doxxing campaigns are the result of the government. unfortunately my honest reaction to that is “huh‽”
March 2006
March 2006 was a much more liberalized time.
you just don’t find these kinds of firebrand figures anywhere in the mainstream
well yeah, because there are no mainstream politics in china that are not local. instead, they do non–party-threatening punditry. i’m talking people like zhang xuefeng and yuan tengfei (note that despite impressions some outdated reports might give, zhang xuefeng was only temporarily suspended, which well carlson has been too.), or hardcore hardcore domestic tankies like guyanmuchan.
Well-known nationalist influencers Sima Nan and Guyanmuchan have been censored without warning. So was the blogger who tried to sue Mo Yan, whose lawsuit was also rejected by the courts.
One vlogger, who shot to notoriety this year after he posted a video accusing a shopping mall of putting up decorations that resembled the Japanese flag, was similarly shut down. A scathing state media commentary denounced his video as “a malicious report that rides on the online traffic of patriotism”.
:-/
Again, that doesn’t seem to be the case. These influencers are consistently at odds with state media and censors.
there is. it’s just not translated as doxxing for some reason i can never understand:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_flesh_search_engine
these already exist… it can only get better if china has better free speech because currently these exist only on the pro-china side. nationalism anywhere is suffocating but it feels worse in china when it’s a one-sided battle
That doesn’t sound like a campaign of independent agents backed by the CCP to harass dissidents of the government. Just the opposite.
This is a radical departure from the American mainstream social media organizing that has often been encouraged, facilitated, and collaborated with by state and national government agencies.
Again, I’m sure there are folks on the internet with bad takes. I’ve yet to see an Alex Jones equivalent on the scale of “Mainstream, high profile internet show dedicated to denying the existence of school shooters as a pretext for imposing gun regulations”. When that kind of personality pops up on the Chinese internet, authorities tend to move quickly to censure and de-list their content.
And a Chinese Tucker Carlson? What would that even look like? A Reagan-Era Maoist with family ties to the PLA who maintains an enormous following of Millennial / GenA viewers built on the back of qigong enthusiasts criticizing Xi Jinping from the Left? Seriously, name some names. I’d love to learn more about this individual.
I’ve dipped my toe in the waters of Chinese media and you just don’t find these kinds of firebrand figures anywhere in the mainstream. If anything, my experience has been with very baby-brained paternalistic bullshit. Hour long shows that have people cosplaying as historical figures and a crowd of academics and talking heads all just nod along agreeing with one another. Entertainment idols and rising political stars jerking each other off to some banal socio-economic milestone or hagiographical rendition of past glories.
If American media is All Red Meat All The Time, Chinese media is unseasoned tofu. It’s a totally different atmosphere.
in the past ten years, human flesh searching most often targets those perceived to make anti-nationalist comments.
i’ll agree that it’s questionable if it has state backing but i completely missed your claim that doxxing campaigns are the result of the government. unfortunately my honest reaction to that is “huh‽”
March 2006 was a much more liberalized time.
well yeah, because there are no mainstream politics in china that are not local. instead, they do non–party-threatening punditry. i’m talking people like zhang xuefeng and yuan tengfei (note that despite impressions some outdated reports might give, zhang xuefeng was only temporarily suspended, which well carlson has been too.), or hardcore hardcore domestic tankies like guyanmuchan.
Is there any actual evidence of this?
:-/
Again, that doesn’t seem to be the case. These influencers are consistently at odds with state media and censors.
https://www.baidu.com/s?wd=人肉+辱华
seems to be still up: https://space.bilibili.com/19248926 again, it is normal for tucker carlson and alex jones to be occasionally suspended