Communist Bandit 共匪

[Tom Kirkman + 8,860]

YouTube automatically deletes Chinese epithet 'communist bandit'

YouTube bans term used during Taiwan's martial law era to describe communist Chinese

[ Extra heavy bombardment of Mandarin spam today on this forum.  

So ... here ya go, back at ya, CCP apologists ...  共匪  ]

 

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Chinese netizens on Wednesday (May 13) discovered that YouTube is automatically blocking the Chinese term "communist bandit" within 15 seconds.

On Wednesday, human rights activist Jennifer Zeng posted a video of a person entering the epithet "communist bandit" (共匪) in the comment box beneath a YouTube video. Within 15 seconds after posting the comment, it mysteriously and inexplicably disappears.

The term is an anti-communist insult which was first coined by the Kuomintang in the early 20th Century and was used extensively by the Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石) government during the martial law era in Taiwan. The Chinese character "共" (gong), is short for 共產主義 (gongchan zhuyi, communism), while the character "匪" means "bandit," and was used extensively during China's Warlord Era.

Taiwan News typed the term in Chinese characters in the comment box in a few different YouTube videos and indeed within 15 seconds, the comment had been automatically excised. It is not clear why YouTube is automatically censoring this word.

YouTube has recently started to demonetize content that is critical of the Chinese Communist Party and China's handling of the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

In the first screenshot below, Taiwan News posted the term below a video about Chinese Chairman Xi Jinping:

 

Within 15 seconds, the comment was automatically deleted, as can be seen below:

(YouTube screenshot)

#YouTube "automatically" deletes a comment in Chinese, "Gongfei", which means "communist bandit", in 15 seconds.
This person tested 3 times, same result. #油管 15秒內自動刪除「共匪」留言，網友連試三次皆如此。
他們找了個比李飛飛更厲害的AI專家？ pic.twitter.com/MLCeko0SIY

— Jennifer Zeng 曾錚 (@jenniferatntd) May 13, 2020

 

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[Tom Kirkman + 8,860]

Revealed: China’s Plan to Censor The Whole Internet

The genius of the internet has always been its openness: anyone with a smartphone or a laptop can take part in a worldwide conversation. For authoritarian regimes, however, that very openness is instead a problem to be solved. China’s plan could lock down the internet forever.

At the heart of the internet is a communications protocol called TCP/IP. The creators of TCP/IP in the 1970s could never have imagined that it would someday form the backbone for nearly all commerce and social discourse by the year 2020. That backbone is beginning to show its age as millions of new smartphones and smart devices are added to the network every year. Industry giants are each offering their own ideas on creating a new structure for the world wide web.

Chinese state-owned technology firm Huawei recently unveiled their own proposal to replace TCP/IP. Called New IP, this standard is designed to make communication more efficient, allowing for faster internet connections for smartphones and web-connected devices such as light bulbs and self-driving cars.

But the new proposal has a darker side.

The first red flag in the New IP proposal is a built-in kill switch that can be used to cut off websites or users that are engaging in bad behavior.

While that might sound like good news in a world of spammers, scammers, and hackers, authoritarian regimes such as China would doubtlessly use it to shut down political dissidents, Hong Kong democracy protestors, or even foreign activists that the Chinese Communist Party consider a threat to their total control of information.

The openness of the internet is in large part due to its decentralized nature. Today, no one person or group can totally control what you see or do not see on the web.

On the other hand, China has worked hard to control the internet within their borders.

They created the so-called “Great Firewall of China,” a system of legal and technological barriers within their borders that prevents citizens from learning anything not approved by the CCP.

For example, a normal image search for “Tiananmen Square” returns the famous picture of a man defiantly facing down a line of tanks as pro-democracy protests were brutally crushed by the Chinese communist regime.

The same search performed on Chinese-owned search engine Baidu, however, returns pictures of the beautiful architecture of the Square, with no tanks or dissidents to be found.

New IP would build a Great Firewall into the very structure of the internet itself.

Another troubling aspect of New IP is its built-in authentication system.

The internet up until now has allowed for tremendous anonymity and privacy. An activist or dissident can put up a website or comment on social media without revealing their true name or location. Anonymity and privacy have always been important for democracy – recall that Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay originally published the Federalist Papers under a pseudonym.

Totalitarian regimes, however, have long fought against this kind of safety for dissidents.

Five years ago, China began forcing internet users within their country to register their real names before being allowed to use social media. China also has a pervasive “social credit score” system that can punish people who engage in politically incorrect discourse by barring them from travel or conducting business.

While most Americans rightly recoil at these examples of communist tyranny, some in the west think that China is leading the way.

Last month, the Atlantic magazine published a piece urging America to adopt the worst of Chinese-style censorship of the internet. Law professors Jack Goldsmith and Andrew Keane Woods wrote, “In the great debate of the past two decades about freedom versus control of the network, China was largely right and the United States was largely wrong. Significant monitoring and speech control are inevitable components of a mature and flourishing internet, and governments must play a large role in these practices to ensure that the internet is compatible with a society’s norms and values.”

If the world adopts the new internet backbone proposed by Huawei, Chinese-style censorship will inevitably spread through the west. American companies such as Google, Facebook, and Twitter have already censored dissenting voices.

Web hosts and payment processors have blacklisted businesses such as gun sellers, all but banning them from the internet. Thus far, the nature of the internet has prevented governments from simply turning off unapproved voices, but New IP could change that.

Huawei – the CCP-linked telecommunications giant – denies there is anything nefarious about the New IP proposal.

According CEO Eric Xu, “…for many years, IP technology has not kept up with the needs of the industrial Internet, particularly in terms of low latency and security… These activities are not as complicated or politically driven as some people think, and the technical topic being researched should not be politicized.”

But only fools and paid propagandists take the Chinese communist regime at their word.

While Huawei claims to be independent, many industry experts believe the company is inextricably linked to the Chinese Communist Party. Timothy Heath, a security analyst with the RAND Corporation, explained: “the Chinese state has the authority to demand tech companies like Huawei turn over useful information or provide access to the communications and technologies owned and sold by Huawei.”

The CCP has demonstrated their desire and willingness to censor the web for their own citizens as well as use it as a weapon against other nations. Allowing China to build the next generation of the internet is a dangerous proposition.

 

[Dan Warnick + 6,100]

Edit:  Did it again, and it disappeared again.  That's kinda scary, man.  Makes me thankful for the security measures I've taken on my laptops and phones.  Everybody ought to at least have a VPN.

 

Wow!  It's true.  I entered 共匪 on a YouTube video about cactus care, and it disappeared within very short order.

Edited May 15, 2020 by Dan Warnick

[Tom Kirkman + 8,860]

2 hours ago, Dan Warnick said:

Edit:  Did it again, and it disappeared again.  That's kinda scary, man.  ...

Wow!  It's true.  I entered 共匪 on a YouTube video about cactus care, and it disappeared within very short order.

 

Just curious, which wording do you think sounds better?

 

President Xi Approves 共匪 Democracy

     - or -

President Xi 共匪 Approves Democracy

 

 

 

 

(Imma really gonna get myself in hot water if the Oil Price site gets bought out by CCP)

 

[Douglas Buckland + 6,308]

A bit too late to worry about that Tom!

[Dan Warnick + 6,100]

共匪 President-for-Life Xi Approves Democracy

[Dan Warnick + 6,100]

Communist Bandit (共匪) President-for-Life Xi Approves Democracy

[Dan Warnick + 6,100]

Hmmm.  Be careful here.  This thread opens slower than others.  Maybe.....

[Dan Warnick + 6,100]

If they can do that to YouTube, what could they do to this website?

[Tom Kirkman + 8,860]

Thanks Dan.  I'm out cutting brush and trees this morning, will make some new memes with your text later today when I get to a computer.

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[Tom Kirkman + 8,860]

6 hours ago, Dan Warnick said:

共匪 President-for-Life Xi Approves Democracy

 

6 hours ago, Dan Warnick said:

Communist Bandit (共匪) President-for-Life Xi Approves Democracy

 

Spacing issues with the first one, so I removed the "for life"

 

 

[0R0 + 6,251]

so how do you pressure Google and its Utube to dodge CCP pressure? While at the same time moving its users and advertisers away from it?

[ronwagn + 6,290]

https://gab.com/ronwagn Join and promote Gab. I use it for all my posts except for oilprice.com where I now spend most of my time. Most of my aggregation is not appropriate for Oil Price. I have over 250 topics.

Gab is unassailable by the internet powers. It uses the latest technology to defeat every attack. Everyone who has tried to stop it has failed. It relies on small contributions to pay its bills. It is a free service. 

If you join, you will have freedom of speech aside from porn and threats etc. Gab requires you to mute all content that is distasteful to you. I have, over three years, probably muted two hundred assorted neo NAZIS, anti semites, etc. I would guess that 90% of members are Trump supporters and some are to the right of Trump. Liberals and socialists are welcome but few stick around, for obvious reasons. 

In my opinion President Trump is a moderate and a populist. He is obviously not a fiscal conservative. I initially supported Ted Cruz but he never would have won the presidency IMHO. I would love to see more fiscal conservatism but really don't think the American people would vote for it. Maybe Trump will go that way if he wins a second term.

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2 hours ago, ronwagn said:

https://gab.com/ronwagn Join and promote Gab. I use it for all my posts except for oilprice.com where I now spend most of my time. Most of my aggregation is not appropriate for Oil Price. I have over 250 topics.

Gab is unassailable by the internet powers. It uses the latest technology to defeat every attack. Everyone who has tried to stop it has failed. It relies on small contributions to pay its bills. It is a free service. 

If you join, you will have freedom of speech aside from porn and threats etc. Gab requires you to mute all content that is distasteful to you. I have, over three years, probably muted two hundred assorted neo NAZIS, anti semites, etc. I would guess that 90% of members are Trump supporters and some are to the right of Trump. Liberals and socialists are welcome but few stick around, for obvious reasons. 

In my opinion President Trump is a moderate and a populist. He is obviously not a fiscal conservative. I initially supported Ted Cruz but he never would have won the presidency IMHO. I would love to see more fiscal conservatism but really don't think the American people would vote for it. Maybe Trump will go that way if he wins a second term.

This Ted Cruz?  😅

 

[Jee + 27]

Hardly surprising, stop watching.

[Douglas Buckland + 6,308]

17 hours ago, Tom Kirkman said:

Thanks Dan.  I'm out cutting brush and trees this morning, will make some new memes with your text later today when I get to a computer.

Tom,

You don’t really need to ‘saw’ with a chainsaw....that’s why Stihl put that little motor thingy on there....😂

[Douglas Buckland + 6,308]

1 hour ago, Hotone said:

This Ted Cruz?  😅

 

Why yes, that is Mr. Cruz!

[Dan Warnick + 6,100]

21 minutes ago, Douglas Buckland said:

Tom,

You don’t really need to ‘saw’ with a chainsaw....that’s why Stihl put that little motor thingy on there....😂

Yeah, well Stihl can't spell!  What do they expect, smart customers?

[Tom Kirkman + 8,860]

Hundreds of Mandarin spam threads again today on this forum.  Even more than usual.

Anyway, you can watch a 25 second video of YouTube deleting in real time a comment of 共匪  (Communist Bandit)

https://twitter.com/jenniferatntd/status/1260557177711968257

 

[ronwagn + 6,290]

21 hours ago, Hotone said:

This Ted Cruz?  😅

 

Trump was very tough on him after Ted Cruz decided to stand in his way. Trump was tough on all his opponents. Ted is now a big Trump supporter and almost lost his senatorial seat to a Democrat nobody. I quit supporting Ted when he criticized Trump in saying that it was his fault he had to shut down his Chicago rally when the police asked him to do so because of many threats. 

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1 minute ago, ronwagn said:

Trump was very tough on him after Ted Cruz decided to stand in his way. Trump was tough on all his opponents. Ted is now a big Trump supporter and almost lost his senatorial seat to a Democrat nobody. I quit supporting Ted when he criticized Trump in saying that it was his fault he had to shut down his Chicago rally when the police asked him to do so because of many threats. 

Fine, but does that invalidate what Ted Cruz said about Trump?  How does this reflect on Ted Cruz's integrity?  

[ronwagn + 6,290]

Ted Cruz is not perfect, neither is President Trump. Both are far and away better than any Demoncrat I know of though. 

[Dan Warnick + 6,100]

It would appear that Ted Cruz has figured out that it is far more important to listen to his constituents and common sense, than to fight against a President that has high support amongst his constituents.  Good for Ted, and good for his constituents.

In the video below, Ted Cruz gets haircut at Shelley Luther's salon on first day of re-opening.  For those that are not aware, Ms. Luther publicly stated that she needed to reopen her hair salon shops so that she might be able to save the business, a business that employs a number of people.  She and those people need to feed their families.  They will not get rich, nor are they anywhere near rich.  It is "essential" that she and they get back to work.  However, a local judge had her arrested and "administered" jail time.  Not much, I believe it was 5 days.  The judge showed that he was "angry" that someone could possibly defy him, even if it means someone's children won't go hungry because their mother cut the hair of willing patrons.  Now the judge has made himself the local poster boy for all that is wrong with oppressive governments that neither follow science and data, nor common sense.  Ted Cruz gets it.  Ted Cruz will survive and be re-elected.  The judge will not, and he will most likely find it is a good time for him to retire.

 

 

[Dan Warnick + 6,100]