WarpedNaba posted:

>Gets paid to play videogames

Didn't Hololive China get the poo poo slapped out of them?

bob dobbs is dead posted:

neo-neo-neo-neo-taoism. i think i got that count right

Megillah Gorilla posted:

Do they have one of those "influencer houses" or is it more of a Dickensian arrangement?


EDIT: oh wow, just googled 'hololive' and now I'm on a watchlist, aren't I?

snergle posted:

hey theres a bunch of new posts in this thread. nm mark as read and move on

Blistex posted:

Question: anyone have some good Chinese Lamb recipes? Preferably from the mandatory vocational school region of China. I've got chuar locked down, but am feeling more adventurous since I'm going to be butchering two.

How are u posted:

Good for these kids! Life is about more than crushing yourself to dust to glorify Xi.

Achernar posted:

I'm still waiting for Mo-ism to make a comeback.

Blistex posted:

Snow tastes like they bottled the water they used to clean out the tanks with. I'm sure you'd die of water toxemia before feeling the effects of the alleged alcohol in it.

Question: anyone have some good Chinese Lamb recipes? Preferably from the mandatory vocational school region of China. I've got chuar locked down, but am feeling more adventurous since I'm going to be butchering two. One is going to be done western style and my wife wants to do the other Chinese style, but has never attempted such a feat. It's the whole lamb (110lbs, dressed to approx 50lbs) so there are lots of options. I'd prefer your personal experiences rather than my first results from Google.

Thanks.

Alan Smithee posted:

we're all on chinese watchlists

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One of the marks of a totalitarian regime is that it can make anyone, and anything, disappear, any time.

Such was the case with the demise last month of Apple Daily, a raucous, pro-democracy tabloid newspaper in Hong Kong that was beloved for its coverage of the territory’s local government, and its outspoken criticism of the Chinese Communist Party.

Hong Kong’s 7.5 million residents protested and mourned the only way that is now allowed to them: By buying up all of the final issue’s one million printed copies. They are now mementos of a lost world.

Hong Kong has long been a vibrant media market, and there are still many newspapers and other news outlets operating there. But after what happened to Apple Daily, every journalist and every publisher, or anyone else thinking of saying anything that might displease Beijing, is on notice.

The 26-year-old paper closed because, one year ago last week, the CCP imposed a national security law on Hong Kong, with the aim of extinguishing the territory’s dwindling independence and ending the “one country, two systems” promise China made when it took over the former British colony in 1997.

The law, written and enacted by Beijing, created broad offences for secession, subversion, terrorism and collusion with foreign powers, with special attention to be paid to media. Its wording was at once vague and draconian, with sentences of up to life.

In mid-June, using the law as a pretext, police raided Apple Daily’s offices and arrested the editor-in-chief and five executives on absurd charges of colluding with foreign powers to harm China and Hong Kong. Authorities also froze the assets of the newspaper and its related companies.

With owner Jimmy Lai already in prison on charges related to the massive pro-democracy and anti-Beijing demonstrations of 2019, and with no money to pay employees, Apple Daily announced its closing.

Hong Kongers were shocked, the newspaper staff included. “Today’s Hong Kong feels unfamiliar and leaves us speechless,” they wrote in a public letter after the raid. U.S. President Joe Biden called it “a sad day for media freedom.”

And yet you could see it coming. Once the national security law came into being on June 30, 2020, it was only a matter of time before it was used against one of its intended targets: Hong Kong’s most outspoken media outlet.

Hong Kong Security Minister John Lee insisted that Apple Daily wasn’t punished for “normal journalistic work.” He insisted that journalists in Hong Kong are just as free as they have ever been, just as long as they “do not conspire or have any intention to break the … National Security Law.”

This is Totalitarianism 101, a clear lesson in Orwellian doublespeak. You’re free to say what you want, as long as Beijing likes what you’re saying. Say the wrong thing, and you risk becoming an enemy of the state, charged with invented national security offences.

Back in 2019, when thousands of Hong Kongers protested a proposed local law that would have allowed for residents wanted by China to be extradited to the mainland, there was always a sense that Beijing would respond by trying to crack down to some degree on the semi-independent territory.

But few imagined Chinese President Xi Jinping would unilaterally impose a law that effectively erases Hong Kong’s ability to protect one of the things that made it distinct from China: Its freedom of speech.

And when the law came into effect, few imagined that it would be used to close the leading pro-democracy newspaper – thereby warning all others to toe the line, or else.

And now, a year later, Apple Daily is gone, dozens of pro-democracy activists have been arrested, candidates for “election” must swear fealty to Beijing, local police are learning to goosestep like soldiers of the People’s Liberation Army, and the Chinese ministry that runs Beijing’s secret police – which Hong Kongers once had no reason to fear unless they crossed to the mainland – is building a massive new headquarters on the city’s waterfront.

Hong Kong is now one country, one system. Under Mr. Xi, it will never go back to the way it was. The Communist Party of China has decided that its former freedoms are too great a threat. Instead, the world, and the people of Hong Kong, should only expect things to get worse.

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A Hong Kong-born Canadian who has worked behind the scenes to help dissidents flee the Chinese Communist Party’s crackdown in the former British colony says a threat has been made against his life.

Paul Cheng, who is in his 60s, is a retired computer programmer in Calgary and one of the founders of the New Hong Kong Cultural Club, a Canadian group dedicated to supporting pro-democracy efforts in the Asian territory.

In late June the group received three messages via Telegram, a software application for smartphones that enables encrypted communication. The first message was a recent photo of Mr. Cheng from a Calgary protest against the Chinese government. The second message addressed him directly: “Having lots of fun, eh, Paul? Don’t blame me for reminding you that if you keep stirring up so much stuff, no one will be able to protect you.”

The third message was an extremely graphic video of a beheading.

“They are telling me to stop doing what you are doing, and the video means they will kill me,” Mr. Cheng said.

The message was written in simplified Chinese characters, which are used in Mainland China, among other places, rather than traditional Chinese characters commonplace in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Mr. Cheng said the phrasing and sentence structure was in-keeping with how a Mainland Chinese writer would communicate. The threat was unsigned, although the sender’s account also used the name Paul.

Mr. Cheng has reported the threat to the RCMP and said officers told him to call the Calgary Police Service if he saw somebody following him. Mr. Cheng said he is now making the threat public in hopes of protecting himself and his family.

Mr. Cheng said he believes the threat is an effort to dissuade people from helping activists flee. The New Hong Kong Cultural Club has been identified in Chinese media as a supporter of asylum seekers, or what pro-Beijing journalists have derisively referred to as “asylum gangsters.”

“They want to show the world that it doesn’t matter where you are, if you are helping Hong Kong you will be in danger,” Mr. Cheng said.

Mr. Cheng said Hong Kong authorities would know him because of his logistics work in support of activists. Among other things, he has arranged airfare for their travel to Canada and is listed in a government registry as a director of the New Hong Kong Cultural Club.

A crackdown on civil rights in Hong Kong that accelerated in 2020 amid the global pandemic has steadily eroded the territory’s political and social freedoms that were unique in China, a legacy of the territory’s years under British control. China had signed a treaty promising that Hong Kong could retain autonomy over local affairs as well as civil rights for 50 years after the 1997 handover. But a sweeping new national-security law imposed on Hong Kong in June, 2020, has violated this pledge. Ostensibly to target secession, subversion and terrorism, the law contains vaguely defined offences that critics say effectively criminalize dissent and opposition.

More than 45 Hong Kong activists who arrived in Canada before the pandemic have already applied for refugee status while others have been forced to wait until COVID-19 travel restrictions end.

He said neither he nor his colleagues in the China pro-democracy movement have received such a violent threat before.

Jane Lee, co-founder of the New Hong Kong Cultural Club, called the threat against Mr. Cheng intolerable. “We are in a free and democratic country,” she said. She said it’s important for critics of the Chinese Communist Party to speak out and stop this “barbaric behaviour” from being repeated.

Cheuk Kwan of the Toronto Association for Democracy in China said the death threat is one of the “most severe cases of intimidation” he has heard of targeting critics of Beijing in Canada.

“This is the first one I have seen that uses a beheading video,” Mr. Kwan said. He said this is why critics of the Chinese Communist Party live in fear in Canada. “I have encountered several Hong Kong Canadians who would not even work with us [privately] on such mundane things like designing poster or editing a video for fear that their families in Hong Kong would get into trouble.”

Last November the Canadian Security Intelligence Service told The Globe and Mail Beijing routinely uses undercover state security officials and “trusted agents,” or proxies, to target members of Canada’s Chinese community in an effort to silence critics of President Xi Jinping, including threats of retribution against their families back in China.

CIGNX posted:

Please share your chuar secrets.

TheBuilder posted:

What's the story with Didi getting hosed this week?

Atopian posted:

Use the wechat pay interface for didi.
Sure, small increase in prices, but at least that way only one huge unaccountable tech giant has access to all of your data, rather than two.
And I mean you clearly already had wechat because who doesn't?

Man, though, earlier versions of wechat had some... messy permissions. Including some literally unnamed ones. Best assume they have everything. But, at least you get something for it. Didi do not offer enough unique benefit for that sort of crap.

BrainDance posted:

I will die on this hill >:[

BrainDance posted:

The story is I feel very vindicated even though the Chinese gov probably doesn't actually care about them harvesting user data and it has more to do with them becoming publicly traded. But they totally are harvesting a poo poo ton of user data in the sketchiest ways so gently caress em.

...

So, gently caress Didi. I hope they burn.

Taipei Times posted:

Giant panda Yuan Zai celebrates her eighth birthday at the Taipei Zoo yesterday. The zoo prepared six bamboo tubes for her to choose from, on which were carved the Chinese characters for birthday wishes. The tube she picked read: “Reducing carbon emissions to protect the environment.”

Shumagorath posted:

It really takes something to be more ruthless than noted cutthroats Uber.

GoutPatrol posted:

GoutPatrol posted:

Atopian posted:

Uber was in China for a while, got murdered and eaten by didi.
Although, that was presumably with legislative help rather than straight competition.
Hard to feel sorry for any company like that.

Atopian posted:

Uber was in China for a while, got murdered and eaten by didi.
Although, that was presumably with legislative help rather than straight competition.
Hard to feel sorry for any company like that.

Grand Fromage posted:

It's one of those things where I really have no idea what their thinking is. As you point out the PRC has historically not been good for LGBT rights, but over the past decade or so they seemed to have seen which way the wind was blowing and decided to stop officially giving a poo poo. I don't get what their angle is on cracking down again, just seems like poking people in the eye for no reason.

ninjoatse.cx posted:

I'm convinced that loads of Chinese regulations stem from one person in a position of authority seeing it and getting mad. See: People eating lots of food videos and Winnie the Pooh cartoons

quote:

Dozens of Chinese phone games now require facial scans to play at night
After a 2018 test, "Midnight Patrol" system officially rolls out to 60 Tencent games.

Marcade posted:

If you're poking them in the eye, aim lower. Unless that's their kink, I guess.