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The Big [Censored] Theory

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1444 points feross | 2 comments | 29 Aug 22 17:34 UTC | HN request time: 0.537s | source
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ALittleLight ◴[29 Aug 22 18:22 UTC] No.32641619[source]▶
I can see how this might backfire. You notice a censored jump and start to feel the itch of curiosity as to what it concealed. I had to watch several of the censored scenes whereas I would have never just randomly watched clips of the show.

Also, love the presentation on this page.

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mftb ◴[29 Aug 22 20:16 UTC] No.32643000[source]▶
It absolutely backfires. No one is as successful at selling US culture as the US, except all those countries that censor exported/imported US culture.
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concordDance ◴[29 Aug 22 20:40 UTC] No.32643270[source]▶
This seems untrue. Do more than a fraction of a percent of Chinese people watch the uncensored versions of things?
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1. iratewizard ◴[29 Aug 22 22:42 UTC] No.32644496[source]▶
Agreed. It's easy to handwave it off. Americans churn out propaganda and inject it into every form of media it can. Similar to preservatives, some media is more nitrate than meat. China cuts it out because it says it's unhealthy to consume. China can do that overtly in it's culture war because it has never guaranteed not to.
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2. astrange ◴[29 Aug 22 23:01 UTC] No.32644651[source]▶
Isn't China's movie editing more like adding a slideshow at the end that says "and then every character was arrested by the police, reeducated, and is now in a heterosexual nuclear family with 2.5 children"?

https://twitter.com/ZeyiYang/status/1561565205942919170