shrine to the prophet of americana

The way Chinese netizens get government censors to crack down on the most anodyne things by giving them political connotations...

femmenietzsche:

The way Chinese netizens get government censors to crack down on the most anodyne things by giving them political connotations (e.g. Winnie the Pooh) is impressive, but what they really need to start doing is ironically praising the regime in a way that’s indistinguishable on a word by word level from actual praise, so that the censors’ll have to block that too.

you kind of just reinvented Classical Chinese literature