lol. lmao even.
Wait… you didn’t check the box. Are you a robot?
I'm not not a robot
What site is this?
The simplest answer is probably that the CCP has its own doctrine and ideals, so westerners larping as communists online may be espousing ideals that don't align with the party's official doctrine. Why let western trolls muddy the waters when you already have efficient distribution of the exact political discourses you desire?
They had a problem a few years ago with student Marxist societies using their own readings of Marx to critique the Party’s leadership, which they of course came down on like a tonne of bricks. The CCP is about Marxism the way the Catholic Church is about the Bible: there’s only one valid interpretation, and it’s whatever the institution says it is at the time.
Makes sense, still pretty damn funny though lol
I'm still trying to understand what tankies are. Are they simply people pretending to be communists?
It originally referred to modern day communists who believed Stalin was right to send troops and tanks into Czechoslovakia in 1968 to crush the liberal government there that had recently arisen there. Hence the word “tankie” for someone who believes that it’s right to use tanks to destroy peaceful democratic governments in order to (re)install communism.
Tankies is a pejorative for authoritarian communists. As to the sincerity and actual involvement in any actual activity, that is highly individual.
If anyone tries to tell you Tianemen Square Massacre didn't happen.... They're a Tankie.
If anyone tries to tell you that "The LGBT Agenda is a Western Attack on Third World Nations"... They're a Tankie.
If they voted for Trump because "But Kamala's bad for Palestine.".... Tankie
And if they voted for Trump because he's a terrible person who will destroy everything, they're not just a tankie, they're an Accelerationist.
China pushes different propaganda within China than it does without China. Don't cross the streams.
What's incredible is that the good dumb dumbs on the tankist triad don't fucking know that about their dearly beloved CCP
You sure about that?
Literally none of these sites are blocked in China. Source: commenting from China.
My guess is it's specific to the domain but federation screws up a domain firewall (which I kind of hope is the case, that'd be a cool reason to use the Fediverse).
That, or it's fake, except there is a fair number of people able to check that site and confirm and the site is usually correct in my experience.
I am in China. I can connect to my world, ml, lemmygrad, dbzer0, and slrflr accounts fine. IDK about this website people are connecting to check.
Probably one of the few instances where I can’t say I blame them one bit.
🤔 Not sure this means anything, but
Probably more the privacy stuff than political ideology.
lemmy.ml is blocked in Iran as well: https://viewdns.info/iranfirewall/?siteurl=lemmy.ml
Yeah, this was a nice fnord when it was first discovered.
But given that the other two are not blocked it is probably for some mundane reason like that early on lemmy.ml was targeted with a lot of nazi spam.
Hexbear is also blocked see @[email protected] s reply
Unsure why grad isn't, maybe just luck of the draw and has flown under the radar so far lol
Ah, a while ago when I checked hexbear wasn't blocked yet. Well the Chinese probably don't like seeing shit on pig-balls everywhere 🫠
Yes, must be the nazi spam. Bet that's it.
You gotta keep an eye out for the fnords. Also an "I".
Hexbear is blocked in turkey
What did they do
They weren't Hungary.
I'll see myself out.
u r not a human apparently.
Cant you interact with lemmy.ml through lemmy.world?
Unfortunately, but I doubt Lemmy is that big where the CCP has detailed working knowledge of how Lemmy works.
But, it would break quite a few things that function by referencing the home instance URL, like crossposts or images
Same user with the .ml bashing post. And it is not even true.
Ah yes, that one user that bashes that instance... Lol. This instance (.ml) is trash, and always has been. It's full of irrational extremists.
i wish it wasn’t true bc i usually get along so well with em, but yeah just recently i’ve been seeing some whack opinions from .ml communities 😬
