९ सप्टेंबर, २०२१

"While the Ministry of Culture and Tourism is preparing a ban on karaoke songs deemed out of line with 'the core values of socialism'..."

"... city officials are regulating dancing in China’s parks, a popular pastime for retirees.... 'Everything the government does — they do it to maintain the stability of its governance, sometimes without considering the impacts on individuals,' [said Ouyang Haotian, a 22-year-old student]. 'It is a trial and error process, so people have to accept those errors and move on.... [But t]here is a point where government regulations stop working. You can ban artists and certain movies or songs, but you cannot teach people what to think.'"

"That passage links to Chinese language webpages. Here's a Google translation of the page about karaoke. Here's what's forbidden in song lyrics: 
1) Violating the basic principles established by the Constitution; (2) Endangering national unity, sovereignty or territorial integrity; (3) Endangering national security, or harming national honor and interests; (4) Inciting ethnic hatred, ethnic discrimination, hurting ethnic feelings or infringing ethnic customs and habits, and undermining ethnic unity; (5) Violating the state's religious policies and promoting cults or superstitions; (6) Propagating obscenity, gambling, violence and drug-related illegal and criminal activities, or instigating crime; (7) Violating social ethics or national excellent cultural traditions; (8) Insulting or slandering others, infringing on the lawful rights and interests of others; (9) Other content prohibited by laws and administrative regulations.

२९ टिप्पण्या:

Achilles म्हणाले...

The Chicoms are heading for a food shortage soon.

The people hate the government leaders.

The tighter your grasp on power the more that slips through your fingers.

Their hold on power requires the help of the Biden regime.

Mr Wibble म्हणाले...

It feels like the world is speeding towards something. Something... terrible.

Lyle म्हणाले...

Did they just copy and paste a Madison, Wisconsin city ordinance? Too hyperbolic?

Scot म्हणाले...

The Ministry's list of forbidden lyrics, short version: "Whatever we say is forbidden".

Joe Smith म्हणाले...

'...but you cannot teach people what to think.'

“He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.”

walter म्हणाले...

#7 casts a wide net.

rcocean म्हणाले...

why is the USA any different? Or Better? NYC passed a law that made calling illegal aliens, illegal aliens. Put a noose up, and you'll have 50 FBI agents investigating you for hating black people. Some guy who posted "Its OK to be White" stickers got run out of college. So did a man who went to the Jan 6th protest (and committed no crime). People have been fired from their jobs for being Trump supporters.

I could go on and on. We're no different than China. Except the Chinese Government enforces patriotism while our Elite enforces hating America 1.O.

Sally327 म्हणाले...

Gambling, the seems an odd one to have included here. The Chinese are big gambling fans I think. Although perhaps that's why the government doesn't want the activity propagated.

Otherwise this seems as though it could be Twitter's governing manifesto?

A little bit off-topic but not completely because there is reference to religious and ethnic concerns in the list of what is verboten but it has occurred to me to wonder how seriously I should worry about the plight of the Uighurs. Other Muslims don't seem to be that worked up about it, at least based on how the Taliban, those austere religious scholars, is all cozy with the Celestial Empire.

Temujin म्हणाले...

I think we should export the City of Portland to China. Much as they injected the world with Covid, we could inject our own homemade virus into their society. It would be entertaining for a bit. Before the CCP would make it all disappear.

Temujin म्हणाले...

Mr. Wibble- we are.
Headlong and blindly.

gilbar म्हणाले...

" You can ban artists and certain movies or songs, but you cannot teach people what to think.'"

Hello!?!
Yes, Yes You CAN. Just make them know that thoughtcrime is doubleplusungood!

Howard म्हणाले...

Lol Achilles. If the Chi Coms power depends on help from the Biden regime, then they are truly fucked. Just ask the Afghan government in exile.

Or in this scenario in this moment inside your bird brain random conspiracy generator, Biden is a genius?

Wince म्हणाले...

Sounds like the Chinese communists cribbed Twitter, Facebook and YouTube user policies -- or vice versa.

rehajm म्हणाले...

Did they just copy and paste a Madison, Wisconsin city ordinance? Too hyperbolic?

I was thinking it was someone in the Biden cabinet or one of the alphabet government agencies that managed to get their woke candidate through confirmation...

Roger Sweeny म्हणाले...

Imagine if American governments enforced that regulation in the 1960s. It sure would have stopped a lot of music.

Peter म्हणाले...

I lived in China, live now in Hong Kong, travelled (pre-Covid obs) to the mainland often just for fun and can say this: the average Zhou on the street ignores this sort of nonsense, gets om with life, is open and friendly and you can pretty much say anything you want. In many ways it’s freer than the west, certainly more laid-back than my one native Australia is these days.
There’s no woke nonsense, you can talk about pretty much anything you want even criticise the government. Only one thing is off limits and that’s what they call “the X factor” ie Xi Jinping.
Talking of which I heartily hate the man and “Beijing” broadly defined as the communist apparatchiks.
But just as there’s a difference between Washington and the incumbent’s Administration, hated or loved by about equal numbers no matter who’s in office, yet we can say “I love Americans”, so I can say I hate Beijing but I love the Chinese (I’m married to one!) and Chinese history and culture.
I hope this doesn’t come across as apologia. It’s not meant to be. Just that I’m on the side of the guy quoted in the OP. Namely they just duck under the latest wave, knowing it’ll crash ashore and dissipate, usually quite soon.

Readering म्हणाले...

Recording songs for online karaoke is huge in PRC, with its looser copyright protections, and censorship well established. But now government clamping down at physical karaoke bars, also huge there.

hombre म्हणाले...

Oh. This is about China. For a moment there I was confused. I thought it had to do with “the unvaccinated” in America.

Paul Zrimsek म्हणाले...

Something tells me my rendition of Loggins & Messina's "House at Pooh Corner" would not be welcome.

tommyesq म्हणाले...

No singing, no dancing - sounds like they will get along just fine with their new best friends in Kabul!

mikee म्हणाले...

There are 20,000,000 more men than women of military service age in China. They ain't gonna spend their lives singing songs.

Quaestor म्हणाले...

You can ban artists and certain movies or songs, but you cannot teach people what to think.

Ouyang is in for a nasty surprise.

Richard म्हणाले...

"You can ban artists and certain movies or songs, but you cannot teach people what to think."

Tell that to our universities!

Jamie म्हणाले...

they just duck under the latest wave, knowing it’ll crash ashore and dissipate, usually quite soon.

Until it doesn't. That's the problem with this approach, which of course we also see in the US: allow your government to create laws and regulations that everyone is going to fall afoul of to some degree, rely on that same government not to enforce those laws and regulations, but leave them on the books... That government can choose to change its unofficial no-enforcement policy anytime.

Yancey Ward म्हणाले...

Australia is now limiting the numbers of beers their citizens in lockdown can drink.

Gospace म्हणाले...

'It is a trial and error process, so people have to accept those errors and move on.... [But t]here is a point where government regulations stop working. You can ban artists and certain movies or songs, but you cannot teach people what to think.'

Funny. Sounds to me exactly like how our government is dealing with the dreaded covid. Doing nothing right, and everything wrong.

This Babylon Bee headline from July seems entirely appropriate, and after Joe Xiden speaks tonight at 5 PM, or 6, or whenever they get him pumped full of drugs, it will seem even more appropriate" To Defeat Delta Variant, Experts Recommend Doing All The Things That Didn't Work The First Time

Looks like, according to Drudge headlines, as a federal employee I will be forced to get a covid shot or else! Well, the "or else!" in my case is pretty simple. I'm 66, at full social security retirement age. Took them 4 months to find a boiler operator the last time one left. Go ahead, fire me.

Chest Rockwell म्हणाले...

I visited Shanghai for a couple of weeks in 2015. The amount of older women in the city doing group dancing in parks and public spaces was pretty funny to me. And a lot of them were pretty elaborate. Whole performances.

No twerking though.

Achilles म्हणाले...

Howard said...

Lol Achilles. If the Chi Coms power depends on help from the Biden regime, then they are truly fucked. Just ask the Afghan government in exile.

Or in this scenario in this moment inside your bird brain random conspiracy generator, Biden is a genius?


You should read your post.

And reflect on how stupid it makes you look.

Bunkypotatohead म्हणाले...

I'm guessing they don't have "Footloose" on the karaoke machines there.