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Winnie the Pooh and South Park banned in China

Rising Sun said:
Wrong again. South American dictatorships we supported during the Cold War were right wing. Fascist nations are fairly centered, albeit extreme authoritarian, but they lean a bit right.

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Conservative governments are relatively weak central governments. Lefwing governments are relatively strong central governments. Totalitarian regimes have all-controlling central governments. Ergo totalitarian governments are leftwing.
 
Mashmont said:
Conservative governments are relatively weak central governments. Lefwing governments are relatively strong central governments. Totalitarian regimes have all-controlling central governments. Ergo totalitarian governments are leftwing.
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Your logic is so contorted that I have an hankering for a large salty pretzel.
 
AProudLefty said:
Who? Disney? Nobody was calling for the ban. You're misled.
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You're being too nice. ;)

"Song of the South" included an Oscar winning song:

I remember enjoying the movie and the songs. The stories date back to 1881 black American folk tales. Bugs Bunny is, IMO, a later incarnation of Br'er Rabbit. Both have similar dispositions.
 
Mashmont said:
Conservative governments are relatively weak central governments. Lefwing governments are relatively strong central governments. Totalitarian regimes have all-controlling central governments. Ergo totalitarian governments are leftwing.
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Dude, you really need to stop learning about governments and religions from the likes of Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and Alex Jones.
 
Rising Sun said:
Dude, you really need to stop learning about governments and religions from the likes of Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and Alex Jones.
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Rush Limbaugh is the #1 journalist in the world today. by every measure.
 
AProudLefty said:
Your logic is so contorted that I have an hankering for a large salty pretzel.
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Agreed. I'd go into the psychological aspects, but that veers strongly off-topic.

Meanwhile, back on the subject of state censorship, I came across this interesting paper published in 2015: Social Media as a Tool of Autocratic Stability

https://www.cambridge.org/core/serv...l_media_as_a_tool_of_autocratic_stability.pdf
Non-democratic regimes have only recently begun to realize the full potential of co-opting social media for their own purposes. This trend, therefore, is likely to intensify in the near future, with profound consequences for the future of democratization and state-society relations. Government involvement in internet technology has continuously evolved from early strategies of brute-force denial to more sophisticated strategies of control and contestation.75 Here I have focused on the latest phase of this evolution—what I call the shift from contestation to co-optation. This strategy incorporates elements of censorship and control, but also builds on them to actively subvert the reach and power of online technology in order to strengthen the regime’s grip on political life

Note that, besides co-opting the flow of information within their own countries, "non-democratic" nations have now moved into co-opting information in democratic nations by mass release of false information.
 
Rising Sun said:
ROFLMAO. I have no doubt you truly believe that to be true.
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Tell me in what way Rush is not the world's top journalist? Audience? Influence? Salary? Political savvy? Dude's #1 in everything?
 
Mashmont said:
Tell me in what way Rush is not the world's top journalist? Audience? Influence? Salary? Political savvy? Dude's #1 in everything?
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First, you'd have to understand what a journalist is and the ethics that go with it. Your list using audience size, influence, salary and political savvy tell me you have zero knowledge of journalism and have zero interest in learning more than you now know.

Second, even Rush isn't stupid enough to claim something he's not and he's not a journalist.

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