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A plane crashed into tallest skyscraper in Beijing.Hours later,all news scrubbed

8 points by Markoff 4mo ago

Markoff 4mo ago
Title is editorialized to meet HN length limit, full title: A small plane slammed into the tallest skyscraper in China’s capital. Hours later, it was like nothing had happened.
- pbak 4mo ago
  Still... interesting how in talking about the crash 80% of CNN's article is to mention the censorship, as was your own focus, and not the event itself and what is known about it. NOTHING about the event about which there is a lot of data available. Yeah WE KNOW THEY CENSOR, CHINA BAD. It's not even some red scare anymore. It's like we collectively need the repeated constant mention of "china bad", like some sort of mental pacifier, to not see everything wrong and just as bad in censorship in the west (UK, Germany, sometime the US), or more broadly everything which is going to shit here but is soaring and going well in Asia. Mental infantilisation to the extreme, to keep our inner frightened and traumatized children in control. Thank you for helping that effort soldier.
  - Markoff 4mo ago
    because they have other article about the event itself, if you bothered to check, this article is about news about this scrubbed from Chinese internet
gnabgib 4mo ago
And yet: CNN (2 points, 2 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48687267 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48687267 DailyMail (12 points, 1 day ago, 5 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48691375 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48691375 WaPo (3 points, 1 second ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48691738 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48691738 BBC (5 points, 21 hours ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48695798 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48695798 YouTube-eh (4 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48696289 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48696289 this copy CNN-repub (5 points, 15 hours ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48697965 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48697965
lerp-io 4mo ago
no video, never happened
gabrielsroka 4mo ago
China Confirms Death of Pilot Who Flew Small Plane Into Beijing’s Tallest Tower https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/28/world/asia/china-pilot-died-plane-crash-beijing.html https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/28/world/asia/china-pilot-di...

8 points by Markoff 4mo ago

Title is editorialized to meet HN length limit, full title: A small plane slammed into the tallest skyscraper in China’s capital. Hours later, it was like nothing had happened.

pbak 4mo ago
Still... interesting how in talking about the crash 80% of CNN's article is to mention the censorship, as was your own focus, and not the event itself and what is known about it. NOTHING about the event about which there is a lot of data available. Yeah WE KNOW THEY CENSOR, CHINA BAD. It's not even some red scare anymore. It's like we collectively need the repeated constant mention of "china bad", like some sort of mental pacifier, to not see everything wrong and just as bad in censorship in the west (UK, Germany, sometime the US), or more broadly everything which is going to shit here but is soaring and going well in Asia. Mental infantilisation to the extreme, to keep our inner frightened and traumatized children in control. Thank you for helping that effort soldier.
- Markoff 4mo ago
  because they have other article about the event itself, if you bothered to check, this article is about news about this scrubbed from Chinese internet

gnabgib 4mo ago

And yet: CNN (2 points, 2 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48687267 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48687267 DailyMail (12 points, 1 day ago, 5 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48691375 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48691375 WaPo (3 points, 1 second ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48691738 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48691738 BBC (5 points, 21 hours ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48695798 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48695798 YouTube-eh (4 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48696289 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48696289 this copy CNN-repub (5 points, 15 hours ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48697965 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48697965

lerp-io 4mo ago

no video, never happened

gabrielsroka 4mo ago

China Confirms Death of Pilot Who Flew Small Plane Into Beijing’s Tallest Tower https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/28/world/asia/china-pilot-died-plane-crash-beijing.html https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/28/world/asia/china-pilot-di...