<story><title>China Bans the Word &apos;Leica&apos; on Social Media</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/china-bans-the-word-leica-on-social-media-1834163199</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>spectramax</author><text>Powerful ad.&lt;p&gt;My gut feeling is that there will be a day in the future where everything in China is going to boil-over just like any other totalitarian regimes in the past. It could be 20 years from now when Xi dies or some type of student uprising again, or could be from the HK&amp;#x2F;Taiwan situation.&lt;p&gt;The behavior of the Chinese government and as they call it &amp;quot;the hand of Beijing&amp;quot; has a self-propelling streisand effect, the more you clamp down, the more it leaks and at some point, it will boil over. Nationalism is tribalism in its glorified, patriotic form. On one hand, we have great men who strive to make the world a better place - journalists, scientists, mathematicians, teachers and community workers and on the other hand we have ugly human tendencies surfacing in a powerful form from politicians.&lt;p&gt;Every politician should listen to Jiddu Krishnamurthy&amp;#x27;s UN speech in 1985: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=qcga8ATBNh0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=qcga8ATBNh0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;There rest of the world needs to fearlessly criticize Chinese censorship as it is only going to get worse. If the Chinese government is insecure from opening history books, hell even calling Xi Jingpin a Winnie-the-Pooh; that&amp;#x27;s not the kind of superpower I wish to see in this world.</text></comment>
<story><title>China Bans the Word &apos;Leica&apos; on Social Media</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/china-bans-the-word-leica-on-social-media-1834163199</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>apo</author><text>The Chinese are innovating totalitarianism faster than any other country. Take this, for example:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; ... When undergraduate students at Peking University, which was at the center of the incident, were shown copies of the iconic photograph [of Tank Man] 16 years afterwards, they were &amp;quot;genuinely mystified.&amp;quot; One of the students said that the image was &amp;quot;artwork.&amp;quot; It is noted in the documentary Frontline: The Tank Man that he whispered to the student next to him &amp;quot;89,&amp;quot; which led the interviewer to surmise that the student may have concealed his knowledge of the event.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Tank_Man&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Tank_Man&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The fact that Leica, a foreign company, is now apologizing about the ad (and has deleted it from their YouTube account) shows just how effective the Chinese government has become at their trade. From the article:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; “Leica Camera AG must, therefore, distance itself from the content shown in the video and regrets any misunderstandings or false conclusions that may have been drawn,” Emily Anderson, a spokesperson for Leica, told SCMP.</text></comment>