As some of you may know by now, Blizzard perma-banned a professional e-sports figure for supporting the protests in Hong Kong and South Park recently did an episode condemning China's disproportionate influence over American media and corporate entities (Disney in particular) and the CCP naturally banned South Park like the commie thugs they are, even though South Park wasn't even airing on Chinese television before the ban.
It's often been speculated that the neoliberal embrace of the bland and deliberately non-edgy "woke culture" that is so often espoused by Millennial SJW's is partly because most SJW woke values don't upset the CCP (aside from all the LGBT stuff, which I'll address later in this post) and the big shot companies like Google and Disney can make a lot of bank from the Chinese and Millennial college kids at the same time. That's part of why despite "Get Woke, Go Broke" being very much a real observable phenomenon in the West, the media is still going with it, because they know that the Chinese will gladly buy up their bland pablum even if it tanks in America.
While a lot of woke stuff will feature LGBT themes, the stuff produced by major companies like Disney and Warner are often deliberately written in a way that can easily be censored or rewritten for Chinese audiences. Both Steven Universe and Voltron: Legendary Defender feature openly gay characters, but the Chinese translations rewrite the dialogue to remove this element. A good example from Voltron is the character Shiro, who is revealed to be gay in the later seasons and has a deceased lover named Adam. However, Adam is rewritten to be his best friend in the overseas versions whenever he is mentioned. A lot of American shows do stuff similar to this for overseas versions in the hopes of getting past the Chinese censors.
However, the Hong Kong protests are starting to wake people up, slowly but surely. People are getting royally pissed at Blizzard and the fact that South Park was able to air their most recent episode at all without getting censored by the Comedy Central higher-ups is a sign that the tides are about to turn.
The People's Republic of China is an authoritarian hellhole that openly engages in covert cyber-warfare with the US, and they also are infamous for their human rights abuses such as the infamous Social Credit system, harvesting the organs of murdered dissidents, and their oppression of ethnic and religious minorities such as the Tibetans and the Muslim tribes in Northern China. There's also the shady activities of groups like Tencent and Huawei, as well as all that deliberate IP theft, protectionism, and the seditious collaboration of Silicon Valley tech giants such as Google in the aiding and abetting of these crimes. Despite Facebook and YouTube both being banned in the PRC, Google and Facebook both collaborate with the Chinese government and make lucrative business deals with them in the tech sector.
Funnily enough, the freedom fighters protesting in Hong Kong have adapted a new mascot, the character of Mei from Overwatch (a game published by Blizzard) and are using her as a symbol of liberation as a way to tell both the CCP and Blizzard to fuck off.
Consequently, I've had Mei as my avatar on this forum for a while. Fuck the CCP!
But on a more serious note, corporate censorship is bad enough as it is. It's even worse when the corporations are doing it on behalf of a despotic foreign government that is infamous for its human rights abuses.
Assuming Pundit is interested in this thread's topic, I'm curious to hear his thoughts on the matter.