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Winnie the Pooh is a tongue-in-cheek monicker for Xi Jinping. While it's banned behind the Great Firewall, it _should_ be available outside China. But, outside
by mpiedrav 7y ago
Winnie the Pooh is a tongue-in-cheek monicker for Xi Jinping. While it's banned behind the Great Firewall, it _should_ be available outside China. But, outside China, the link now redirects to a generic regional Disney site.
Nowadays, anything that upsets the Chinese government seems to be out of bounds for large corporations. It's always about profit and reputation.
Edit: redirection through JS is in place for some countries:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21211422 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21211422
Way simpler than editing DNS zones.
- HenryBemis 7y agoSeriously, even if someone doesn't like South Park (I'm more of a Rick and Morty type) you/we all have to watch South Park - Band in China. A very simple way to describe how China is playing this game (and we let them win).
- mpiedrav 7y ago> (and we let them win) That's indeed the key point. While the Chinese government can censor whatever it pleases and enforce any policies on its citizens, it's up to US corporations to decide whether they want to keep in line with them. For what it's worth, corporations will be gradually replacing public institutions and governments in a few decades from now (at most in a century). Not by coups, but by making them largely irrelevant in everyday life. Democracy will then be as archaic as monarchies.
- smitty1e 7y agoAnd governments will do victory laps about protecting free speech, while the tyranny is outsourced to corporations.
- jrs235 7y agoThat's the point of (politicians) supporting mega corps. When only a few mega corps determine if you have a job and therefore can buy and survive they can indirectly control the masses.
- Moru 7y agoAwkward, that episode is not awailable in Sweden on their homepage. You get redirected to another site that does not have season 23.