A few days ago, a Japanese handheld game in the mainland microblogging platform to promote the name of the main character of the cartoon “Cui” removed, in the network set off a “Xi Jinping died twice” hot irony, the message and discussion was quickly blocked. According to the commentary, netizens protested against Xi Jinping’s evil policies in a cryptic manner, while the authorities’ overreaction showed their internal cowardice and high-handedness only provoked more public anger.
In the mainland’s online world, discussions surrounding the word “cui” have recently resurfaced, with some netizens pointing out that the word “cui” means “Xi dies twice” after being split up.
But the message and comments immediately disappeared on Weibo, suspected to be “harmonized” by online commentators.
When we searched for the word “cui” on Sina Weibo, the word was not listed as a “forbidden word” for the Time being, but only the names of people and places containing the word. Some Internet veterans told us that the authorities should have refined and deleted the search results. The word “cui” or words that are likely to trigger associations are banned.
Sina Weibo’s complaints department did not respond to our request for comment.
Tom Qianlong, a U.S.-based netizen who has posted numerous videos mocking Xi Jinping on social media, said in an interview with the station that in China’s cramped political environment, ordinary people can only use their imagination to express their voices in a subtle way.
Tom Qianlong said, “The fact that the word “cui” can be associated with the word “xi pawn” shows two problems: First, the Chinese people are seriously dissatisfied with Xi Jinping; and second, the Chinese people’s freedom of speech is severely restricted, so they need to use their imagination to express themselves. their own voices. When I see Chinese people racking their brains to say something from their hearts and immediately being blocked, it’s a good thing I’m in the United States and can do something to help give Chinese people a voice.
French independent filmmaker Wang Longmeng agrees that it will soon be the third anniversary of Xi Jinping’s constitutional amendment, showing his weakness by his heavy sentencing of Ren Zhiqiang and his suppression of Xu Zhangrun and other dissident voices.
Wang Longmeng said, “It will soon be the third anniversary of Xi Jinping’s constitutional amendment, and the blocking of the “Praying for Cui” theme is very much like the work of an “emperor in a dragon robe”, from Xi Jinping’s heavy sentencing of Ren Zhiqiang, who criticized him, to the suppression of Xu Zhangrun and other people, this kind of word prison reminds us of the famous ancient emperor. We are reminded of the ancient history of imperial taboos, where the shunning of The Emperor became a draconian decree, and Xi is repeating that history. The more outrageous the ban, the more power and the more weakness he shows, and the more he can only suppress the growing discontent by severely clamping down on freedom of expression.
Wang Longmeng also said the authoritarian state is a rich mine of laughs for writers, filmmakers and artists, and he and his companions are considering documenting Xi Jinping’s evil rule in the form of absurd dramas.
The game “Idol Fantasy Festival 2” released information about the event in the official microblogging, the character “Cui” in the name of the game’s character “Takafumi Cui” was hidden. (Screenshot from Weibo, provided by netizens)
Last year, there were topics on Chinese microblogs such as “Pray for Cui today” and “Pray for Cui super talk”, but they were all blocked, and those who participated or retweeted the content were also banned. This time the topic was hotly debated again, because a Japanese mobile game “idol fantasy festival 2” this Sunday (21) in the official microblogging campaign information, the game’s character “peak cui” of the “cui The word “cui” is hidden and replaced with an English name. The organizer especially stressed: “For special reasons, we are temporarily using the Roman name instead, so please understand and communicate with the producers in a friendly manner, and do not discuss too many unrelated matters. But the statement can not stop the netizens “Xi dead second” association.
Although the message and comments about the word “jade” disappeared from Weibo, some netizens took screenshots of the message to Telegram and other social media groups, provoking heated debate among netizens, with some mockingly saying ” In the future, China’s jade market is worrying”, “say feather not to say pawn, civilization from me”.
Steve Chan, a Chinese student in the U.S., has recently been active on Clubhouse, where he and a group of friends mocked the evil policies of the Xi Jinping era in an ironic and playful way. He believes there are more and more awakened Chinese people. He told us that Xi Jinping’s “pro-people show” and “anti-corruption banner” were very confusing to him when he first came to power, but he started to wake up politically after Xi Jinping amended the constitution and cracked down on Hong Kong. He believes that tyranny will provoke more people to move from covert protest to open protest.
Steve Chan said, “The word “cui” is a very normal word, but under this system, it is forced to become something else. General Secretary Xi is too sensitive, of course, he is not legitimate, 2023 he will be the third term, he is more afraid of the emergence of such voices. When Xi Jinping first came to power, I saw that the political propaganda “eat buns” are quite pro-people, and beat the tiger or something, I did not have this political awakening at that time. However, after the Hong Kong incident, I knew that the Chinese Communist Party, especially Xi Jinping, was terrifying in its suppression of freedom. I saw that there are some friends who are ready to unite and progress from a zero to one.
Recently, a group of overseas new generation during the Chinese New Year, through YouTube and other platforms live broadcast “insulting package worship festival”, after the announcement of the event, the domestic participants lost contact with the outside world, suspected that the Chinese Communist Party network police stole the administrator account to the organizers “breast turbine” It is suspected that the Chinese Communist Party’s Internet police stole the administrator’s account and “massacred” and “blasted” the organizer, “Breasttalk” and “Wall Country Frog Clam Clam”. Later, the Chinese video site bilibili (i.e., B Station) was suspected to have been ordered to report the organizer’s channel to the YouTube platform and even blocked it, but the organizer later negotiated with the YouTube platform and restored some of the videos and accounts.
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