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"People's Daily newspaper" is a pretty big counterexample that everyone is conveniently ignoring.

throwhehehe 5y ago
The common thread here is how Beijing is afraid from organized ethnic minority movements, religious movements and/or societies from the civil society that could have their own independent ideas. They are not that different from other Leninist inspired governments. Cuba does that. Vietnam does that. The Soviet Union certainly did that. These governments always lose their minds with the idea of people organizing themselves and the controlling party having no control whatsoever about these groups. I have no idea how the People's Daily plays into that. Maybe the readership is so small and it attracts a certain type of personality that Zhongnanhai thinks it is a good idea to report on them. I've read that the major clique in the CCP certainly wasn't happy about students calling themselves Maoists and supporting workers striking. I don't know much about China to say about that nor if the People's Daily has many people reading it.
- pphysch 5y ago
  People's Daily is an official newspaper of the Communist Party of China, i.e. "Beijing". Perhaps this fact can improve your analysis.
  - HAL9001Ti 5y ago
    You are mistaken, see this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28622783 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28622783
  - yorwba 5y ago
    The term in the list is actually 人民报 "People's newspaper" not 人民日报 "People's Daily newspaper". From a quick look at their website, 人民报 appears to be pretty anti-communist. Basically typosquatting.
AnotherGoodName 5y ago
It's not the mainland China paper if you search for the Chinese characters. Renminbao [人民报] is an independent Chinese online news website that criticizes the Chinese regime. https://china-chats.net/keywords/1705 https://china-chats.net/keywords/1705
- pphysch 5y ago
  Thanks, that makes more sense why the Lithuanian authorities included it in their (cherry-picked?) subset of the filtered ad phrases.

The common thread here is how Beijing is afraid from organized ethnic minority movements, religious movements and/or societies from the civil society that could have their own independent ideas. They are not that different from other Leninist inspired governments. Cuba does that. Vietnam does that. The Soviet Union certainly did that. These governments always lose their minds with the idea of people organizing themselves and the controlling party having no control whatsoever about these groups. I have no idea how the People's Daily plays into that. Maybe the readership is so small and it attracts a certain type of personality that Zhongnanhai thinks it is a good idea to report on them. I've read that the major clique in the CCP certainly wasn't happy about students calling themselves Maoists and supporting workers striking. I don't know much about China to say about that nor if the People's Daily has many people reading it.

pphysch 5y ago
People's Daily is an official newspaper of the Communist Party of China, i.e. "Beijing". Perhaps this fact can improve your analysis.
- HAL9001Ti 5y ago
  You are mistaken, see this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28622783 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28622783
- yorwba 5y ago
  The term in the list is actually 人民报 "People's newspaper" not 人民日报 "People's Daily newspaper". From a quick look at their website, 人民报 appears to be pretty anti-communist. Basically typosquatting.

AnotherGoodName 5y ago

It's not the mainland China paper if you search for the Chinese characters. Renminbao [人民报] is an independent Chinese online news website that criticizes the Chinese regime. https://china-chats.net/keywords/1705 https://china-chats.net/keywords/1705

pphysch 5y ago
Thanks, that makes more sense why the Lithuanian authorities included it in their (cherry-picked?) subset of the filtered ad phrases.