rising discontent across Chinese social media is not necessarily a reflection of the limits of that aforementioned censorship, but possibly a window into how the Party manages social malaise.
1d ago
To be sheltered from the winds of doctrine is to be kept from contact with reality. The man who is protected against every draught of opinion is kept from the real world; but then, what is the real world?
1w ago
The demand that I must not think what I think has never, in the whole of history, made a man think differently. It has only made him pretend to.
Trump administration officials tell WIRED that if Anthropic wants to rerelease Fable 5, it will need to ensure the model's guardrails can't be circumvented. Security experts say that can't be done.
China is a deeply repressive nation, with universal surveillance, fine-grained media and speech control, and ubiquitous censorship. That's the kind of society where only anodyne, cautious artistry can flourish, except in tiny subcultural pockets too small for the government to worry about.
