Sorry I am genuinely pissed about this. China supposedly can censor everything on the internet. Yet the disgusting video of the heinous shooting in Buffalo can still be seen on
#wechat
. Not sure how widespread it is but I saw it in my group
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@vshih2
It helps underscore the domestic narrative that America is a violent and awful place… which is partly right. Still surprising they don’t acknowledge the harm from watching such content and remove it.
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@vshih2
It is disgusting for sure, but I think we should be focusing anger to the actual problem of gun violence in the US. Cant be worried about what Tencent is doing if we keep letting this stuff happen at home
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@vshih2
If it fits a wider narrative, and serves to distract, then no content is too offensive.
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@vshih2
I saw it on We Chat to at first I thought it was a video game that it couldn’t be true but it was true 🤮
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@vshih2
Why would they censor that? It gets attention and puts US in a bad light. They ought to be promoting it.
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@vshih2
Yes, my Chinese husband always shows me very violent videos from the US that he finds on WeChat. He also refuses to live in the US, in part, because of videos and negative US news he sees every day on Chinese social media.
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@vshih2
It is a feature, not a bug. One of the objectives of the propaganda apparatus is to promote this type of content, to make the us look bad
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@vshih2
Well their goal is to score propoganda points, right? The decadent West and all that...
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@vshih2
I'm genuinely pxxxed that a man in the US could get several guns, boast online about how he intended to kill people, then go out and do it while livestreaming
I'm not pixxed that it's on Chinese social media
If it happened in China, it would be all over US Mainstream media
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@vshih2
Had a friend in China try to convince me the reason why
@hellojixian
's videos were removed was because wechat's terms of service is against violence lol. Yeah, okay lolol.
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