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* 2017 Haidong playing foot volley with Nadal with a tennis ball for a minute: ;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEUwQdynbh8 in 2017. A photo: https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/spanish-tennis-player-rafael-nadal-attends-a-charity-match-news-photo/856091560 https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/spanish-tennis-player-rafael-nadal-attends-a-charity-match-news-photo/856091560 contains an image of the event, and Nadal holds what seems to be a soccer video game featureing Haidong on the cover.
.Hao Haidong (in white) playing for the China national team against the Hong Kong's national team in a World Cup Asian zone qualifying match at Siu Sai Wan Sports Ground in 2004. Request for https://twitter.com/fjamie013[James Fridman] to remove Haidong from the picture in reference to <<censorship-of-images-in-the-soviet-union>>: https://twitter.com/cirosantilli/status/1308670186640289792[]. Photo by: <<scmp>>. https://www.scmp.com/sport/china/article/3087684/chinese-sports-couple-hao-haidong-and-ye-zhaoying-face-being-wiped[Source].
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.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgSwRwFBNFA Hao Haidong's top 10 goals, all with CCTV 5 watermark :-)
video::https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgSwRwFBNFA[youtube,height=400,width=600]
[[zhihu-censorship-of-hao-haidong]]
====== Zhihu censorship of Hao Haidong (知乎审查郝海东)
<<zhihu>> (and the rest of the Chinese Internet) basically nuked a gazillion articles that mentioned him, including old ones that had nothing to do with his political views.
Ciro estimates that very likely thousands of Zhihu posts have been removed, as of 2020-06-14 the Google query "郝海东 site:zhihu.com" had 3,970 results, and every single on Ciro clicked had been taken down.
Not nuked yet as of 2020-06, but nuked after, with before-after archives:
* The Zhihu "Hao Haidong" topic itself https://www.zhihu.com/topic/20080590/intro
** up 2020-06-06 https://web.archive.org/web/20200606161335/https://www.zhihu.com/topic/20080590/intro
** down 2020-06-14 https://web.archive.org/web/20200614114534/https://www.zhihu.com/topic/20080590/intro
* https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/59782534 C罗的每次高光，都让郝海东出尽洋相
** up 2020-06-06 https://web.archive.org/web/20200606124255/https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/59782534
** down 2020-06-14 https://web.archive.org/web/20200614094722/https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/59782534
* https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/133206885 郝海东为什么要炮轰许家印？
** up 2020-06-06 https://web.archive.org/web/20200606122802/https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/133206885
** down 2020-06-14 https://web.archive.org/web/20200614092838/https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/133206885
* https://www.zhihu.com/question/64992079 巅峰期的孙继海 郑智 郝海东 范志毅怎么排名？
** up 2020-06-06 https://web.archive.org/web/20200606123634/https://www.zhihu.com/question/64992079
** down 2020-06-14 https://web.archive.org/web/20200606123634/https://www.zhihu.com/question/64992079
Older archives that were nuked before Ciro managed to archive them on 2020-06-06:
* https://www.zhihu.com/question/22038423
** up 2015-06-15 https://web.archive.org/web/20150615113940/https://www.zhihu.com/question/22038423
** down 2015-06-06 https://web.archive.org/web/20200606123519/https://www.zhihu.com/question/22038423
Nuked as per Ciro's eyewitness on 2020-06-06 without web archive, but could be found either on Google search or Zhihu search before those engines had properly cleared, taking Google caches and web archiving them + web archiving 404's as of 2020-06-14:
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* https://www.zhihu.com/question/23084831 如何评价足球运动员高峰？他与郝海东比的水平怎么样？ https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://www.zhihu.com/question/23084831&client=ubuntu&hs=1uU&strip=1&vwsrc=0
* https://www.zhihu.com/question/23416213 如何评价孙继海、郝海东、范志毅 ？ https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:SEWC3OjJEYoJ:https://www.zhihu.com/question/23416213&client=ubuntu&hl=en&gl=uk&strip=1&vwsrc=0
* https://www.zhihu.com/question/23939434 如果巅峰期的郝海东有机会去欧洲五大联赛踢球会取得什么样的成就？ https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:OFjOxog6jiwJ:https://www.zhihu.com/question/23939434&client=ubuntu&hl=en&gl=uk&strip=1&vwsrc=0
* https://www.zhihu.com/question/27060872 巅峰时期的范志毅、郝海东、李铁、李玮锋、孙继海、郑智 放到现在的中国足球应该出于什么水平？ https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://www.zhihu.com/question/27060872&client=ubuntu&hs=fvU&strip=1&vwsrc=0
* https://www.zhihu.com/question/29833583 如何评价郝海东认为"英国人不会踢球"？ https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:jk7qxGW7v64J:https://www.zhihu.com/question/29833583&client=ubuntu&hl=en&gl=uk&strip=1&vwsrc=0
* https://www.zhihu.com/question/34155456 如何评价郝海东？ https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://www.zhihu.com/question/34155456&client=ubuntu&hs=0bp&strip=1&vwsrc=0
* https://www.zhihu.com/question/47528985 郝海东是亚洲第一前锋吗？ https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://www.zhihu.com/question/47528985&client=ubuntu&hs=IxU&strip=1&vwsrc=0
* https://www.zhihu.com/question/51867870 我同学说郝海东不如孙兴民 我该如何说服他？ https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://www.zhihu.com/question/51867870&client=ubuntu&hs=MJ&strip=1&vwsrc=0
* https://www.zhihu.com/question/52500232 武磊和巅峰时期的郝海东比如何？ https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://www.zhihu.com/question/52500232&client=ubuntu&hs=kzU&strip=1&vwsrc=0
* https://www.zhihu.com/question/62419235 如何评价 郝海东怒斥许家印全华班:放屁!不是为了推动国足。 这一观点。？ https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:4CCnPhViGBUJ:https://www.zhihu.com/question/62419235&client=ubuntu&hl=en&gl=uk&strip=1&vwsrc=0
* https://www.zhihu.com/question/66555590 郝海东是一个什么样的人？ https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:sunDGY8ULEEJ:https://www.zhihu.com/question/66555590/answer/245224350+&cd=6&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&client=ubuntu
* https://www.zhihu.com/question/282906877 如何看待郝海东两次评价 C 罗？
* https://www.zhihu.com/question/282934169 怎么看郝海东再评价C罗？ https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:XfY4ZPvzz7sJ:https://www.zhihu.com/question/282934169&client=ubuntu&hl=en&gl=uk&strip=1&vwsrc=0
* https://www.zhihu.com/question/345693653 巅峰时期的范志毅、郝海东相当于五大联赛哪些球员的实力? https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://www.zhihu.com/question/345693653&client=ubuntu&hs=6gp&strip=1&vwsrc=0
* https://www.zhihu.com/question/384834709 武磊的水平能超过郝海东吗？ https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:FXIkLaGzyQoJ:https://www.zhihu.com/question/384834709&client=ubuntu&hl=en&gl=uk&strip=1&vwsrc=0
* https://www.zhihu.com/question/394366737 怎样看待最近郝海东微博频繁开炮怼人？ https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:_LbOGbsGFQkJ:https://www.zhihu.com/question/394366737&client=ubuntu&hl=en&gl=uk&strip=1&vwsrc=0
* https://www.zhihu.com/question/394503875 为什么有些人黑郝海东？ https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:GcqkvJGKCJYJ:https://www.zhihu.com/question/394503875&client=ubuntu&hl=en&gl=uk&strip=1&vwsrc=0
* https://www.zhihu.com/question/395225037 如何看待郝海东说的："智慧是天生的"？ https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://www.zhihu.com/question/395225037&client=ubuntu&hs=i2U&strip=1&vwsrc=0
* https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/128537416 C罗粉丝不好惹？郝海东深夜发文教粉丝独立思考，见证历史转折点 https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/128537416&client=ubuntu&hs=bip&strip=1&vwsrc=0
* https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/134027258 【球星故事】郝海东为何被称为"郝大炮"？ https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:zPBVhvs9SsUJ:https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/134027258&client=ubuntu&hl=en&gl=uk&strip=1&vwsrc=0
* https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/138465029 郝海东争议言论登热搜，媒体人：他逐步从大炮变成公知网红 https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:z7STI_34eocJ:https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/138465029&client=ubuntu&hl=en&gl=uk&strip=1&vwsrc=0
* https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/141049893 郝海东被网友群嘲的五大原因 https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:pEppZJ8K8VIJ:https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/141049893&strip=1&vwsrc=0
* https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/145740098 塞超主帅：郝润泽不像郝海东，他更擅长于防守 And here is an archive from 2020-06-06 saying that the article was being modified to meet some guidelines: "文章被建议修改：违反知乎社区管理规定 作者修改内容通过后，文章会重新显示。" https://web.archive.org/web/20200606122827/https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/145740098
* https://www.zhihu.com/question/19806854 中国队 2002 世界杯为什么会出线？
** question up 2020-06-15 https://web.archive.org/web/20200615140650/https://www.zhihu.com/question/19806854[archive])
** 2015 archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20151114093037/https://www.zhihu.com/question/19806854
** top answer from 2015 archive https://www.zhihu.com/question/19806854/answer/19357252 is dead 2020-06-15 https://web.archive.org/web/20200615142339/http://web.archive.org/screenshot/https://www.zhihu.com/question/19806854/answer/19357252
** existing answers do show Hao in videos however of course
* https://web.archive.org/web/20200618190141/https://www.zhihu.com/topic/20058377
* https://web.archive.org/web/20200618190052/http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:JF35Ecar-a8J:https://www.zhihu.com/topic/20058377&client=ubuntu&hl=en&gl=uk&strip=1&vwsrc=0
[[baidu-baike-censorship-of-hao-haidong]]
====== Baidu Baike censorship of Hao Haidong (百度百科审查郝海东)
This served as good evidence of the obvious fact that <<baidu-baike>> is highly censored.
Hao Haidong's page https://baike.baidu.com/item/郝海东/357512[]:
* up 2020-06-06 https://web.archive.org/web/20200606060916/https://baike.baidu.com/item/郝海东/357512
* down 2020-06-14 (say "抱歉，您所访问的页面不存在..." and redirects to home page) https://web.archive.org/web/20200614094144/http://web.archive.org/screenshot/https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E9%83%9D%E6%B5%B7%E4%B8%9C/357512
Article about the Chinese national soccer team https://baike.baidu.com/item/中国国家男子足球队[]:
* archive of 2020-06-02 <<google-cache>>: https://web.archive.org/web/20200615071212/https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:M5UlBifrUzsJ:https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD%E5%9B%BD%E5%AE%B6%E7%94%B7%E5%AD%90%E8%B6%B3%E7%90%83%E9%98%9F
* archive from 2019-06-24 https://web.archive.org/web/20190624110500/https://baike.baidu.com/item/中国国家男子足球队
* archive 2020-06-15: https://web.archive.org/web/20200615072004/https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD%E5%9B%BD%E5%AE%B6%E7%94%B7%E5%AD%90%E8%B6%B3%E7%90%83%E9%98%9F
The article used to mention Hao extensively. He was:
* second on the 知名人物 (famous people)
* was the 进球最多者 (top scorer), a category which as completely removed
* the list 射手榜 (top scorers?) is still there but casually starts at 宿茂臻 with 27 goals, and skips Hao which has 41
* an entire section about Hao was removed entitled "永远的9号——郝海东" and saying how amazing he was, including a picture
Ye Zhaoying's page https://baike.baidu.com/item/叶钊颖[]:
* up 2020-06-06 https://web.archive.org/web/20200614104922/https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Akp6GBnsRNhQJ%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fbaike.baidu.com%2Fitem%2F%E5%8F%B6%E9%92%8A%E9%A2%96
* down 2020-06-14 (redirects to home page) https://web.archive.org/web/20200614105126/http://web.archive.org/screenshot/https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E5%8F%B6%E9%92%8A%E9%A2%96
Ye won the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BWF_World_Championships[BWF World Championships] (https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/世界羽毛球锦标赛[世界羽毛球锦标赛]), a biannual tournament organized by the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badminton_World_Federation[Badminton World Federation] (https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/羽毛球世界联合会[羽毛球世界联合会]) that is likely the most prestigious in the world twice in 1995 and 1997, and her name had to be removed from the list of winners in Baidu https://baike.baidu.com/item/世界羽毛球锦标赛[]:
* 2017-11-26 archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20171126131320/https://baike.baidu.com/item/世界羽毛球锦标赛 showing her as winner in 1995 and 1997
* 2020-06-08 archive of <<google-cache>> https://web.archive.org/web/20200615080701/https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:llXWVx3NX8kJ:https://baike.baidu.com/item/世界羽毛球锦标赛 before censors nuked her
* 2020-06-15 archive after censors nuked her: https://web.archive.org/web/20200615080807/https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E4%B8%96%E7%95%8C%E7%BE%BD%E6%AF%9B%E7%90%83%E9%94%A6%E6%A0%87%E8%B5%9B[]. In 1995 and 1997 it seems that one the female singles (女子单打), even though they did happen in 1993 and 1999. How curious!
The fact that badminton is a single player sport is great in this case, as it just puts more emphasis on her name as opposed to Hao's multiplayer soccer game:
* 1995 Ye Zhaoying vs Han Jingna BWF finals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrO5g58tSUE Bracket: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_IBF_World_Championships
* 1997 Ye Zhaoying vs Gong Zhichao BWF finals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiOi1bmZHo4 Bracket: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_IBF_World_Championships
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Hunan website about Gong Zhichao confirming that: https://web.archive.org/web/20200618174728/http://www.enghunan.gov.cn/hneng/AboutHunan/HistoryCulture/Celebrities/201508/t20150807_1816328.html
Hao Runze's page https://baike.baidu.com/item/郝润泽
* still up 2020-06-14 but locked: https://web.archive.org/web/20200614105842/https://baike.baidu.com/item/郝润泽
* and casually forgets to mention that he is the fucking son of Haidong, which was likely edited out recently, but there is no edit history in Baidu Baike. <<google-cache>> was already from 2020-06-08 and missed the pre-edit. What a shame
* The last entry says "2020年5月31日，郝润泽在塞尔维亚超级联赛第27轮尼什工人客场挑战纳普里达克的比赛中，首秀替补出场打入一球，帮助尼什工人实现绝平。" and also casually forgets to mention that he was fired two weeks later.
.In 2020, due to her criticizing the Chinese government together with her husband <<hao-haidong>>, all mention of badminton player Ye Zhaoying (叶钊颖) removed from <<baidu-baike>>. In this particularly funny case, her wins from the 1995 and 1997 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BWF_World_Championships[Badminton World Federation World Championships] (https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/世界羽毛球锦标赛[世界羽毛球锦标赛]) women's singles were simply removed, as if that year the event hadn't happend. In the neighbouring years 1993 and 1999, and every other year, they did of course happen. An https://web.archive.org/web/20171126131320/https://baike.baidu.com/item/世界羽毛球锦标赛[earlier web archive] shows of course that she was the winner in those years.
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==== Chloe Zhao (Zhao Ting, 赵婷, 2021 Oscar winner, 获第93奥斯卡最佳电影和导演奖)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloé_Zhao
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/趙婷
Born and raised in China, sent to study in the UK by her wealthy father Zhao Yuji 赵玉吉 at age 15 and later moved to US, but retained Chinese citizenship as far as is publicly known.
In 2013 she told the magazine Filmmaker https://web.archive.org/web/20130814185314/https://filmmakermagazine.com/people/chloe-zhao/[] (later removed from the website):
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It goes back to when I was a teenager in China, being in a place where there are lies everywhere. You felt like you were never going to be able to get out. A lot of info I received when I was younger was not true, and I became very rebellious toward my family and my background. I went to England suddenly and relearned my history. Studying political science in a liberal arts college was a way for me to figure out what is real. Arm yourself with information, and then challenge that too.
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TODO was that the only comment she ever made or is there more?
Ciro Santilli
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Won the 2021 Oscar (93rd) for best picture and best director on 2021-04-25 for her film Nomadland 无依之地.
And at the same time she was also working on an idiotic superhero movie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternals_(film) to be launched by Disney in the future, and therefore they would likely want it to be released in China, let's see how that will go.
On 2021-04-26 reports emerged that her win was being censored in China: https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-censors-nomadland-director-chloe-zhaos-oscar-win-11619440550 Unlike <<hao-haidong>> however, the order was much more specific: to censor only the fact that she won the Oscars.
As of 2021-04-27 her <<baidu-baike>> page https://baike.baidu.com/item/赵婷/22214113 was still up: https://web.archive.org/web/20210427075523/https://baike.baidu.com/item/赵婷/22214113 let's see how long it lasts. But the page failed to mention the minor detail that she on the Oscar. The comment section, which we're unable to archive contained two types comments:
* she's an American citizen now, not Chinese, just it wasn't reported. But no one has any proof.
* she won the Oscar
https://web.archive.org/web/20210413095903/https://baike.baidu.com/tashuo/browse/content?id=c9fdac1dcf27bdd1280ac9e1&lemmaId=22214113&fromLemmaModule=pcBottom contains a prediction that she would win the Oscar based on earlier recent wins.
The page for the 93rd Oscar mysteriously does not exit however: https://baike.baidu.com/item/第93届奥斯卡金像奖 unlike that of all others: https://baike.baidu.com/item/第92届奥斯卡金像奖 (https://archive.ph/wip/gGGtn[archive]) We can't find an archive either, but it is overwhelmingly likely that it was created and later deleted. As of 2021-06-21, https://baike.baidu.com/item/奥斯卡金像奖/739020#5 (https://archive.ph/bZFfe#5[archive]) contains a list of all the prizes given so far, linking to the respective per year pages, and the 93rd appears listed but mysteriously without a link.
On <<zhihu>> the topic 93rd Oscar "第93 届奥斯卡金像奖" https://www.zhihu.com/topic/21594057 was deleted:
* up 2021-04-09 https://archive.ph/dZAHE with 13 questions
* down 2021-04-27 https://archive.ph/wip/LYwOb
The Chloe Zhao topic https://www.zhihu.com/topic/20175085/hot was still up: 2021-04-27 with 8 questions: https://archive.ph/wip/CI3vz but funnily that website is so shit that it still links to some deleted questions e.g.: which used to read https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/368060294 "赵婷获第93届奥斯卡最佳导演奖，有思想的女孩子最可爱" but is down https://archive.ph/wip/6eiTl
* https://www.zhihu.com/question/420850041 (https://www.zhihu.com/question/420850041[archive]) 如何评价中国导演赵婷作品《无依之地》获得第 77 届威尼斯电影节最高奖金狮奖？ What do you think about Chloe Zhao's work nomadland that won the 77th Venice Film Festival
The page of the film is still up 2021-04-27 https://baike.baidu.com/item/无依之地/50656178 (https://web.archive.org/web/20210413021635/https://baike.baidu.com/item/无依之地/50656178[archive]).
* Chinese
** https://www.dw.com/zh/赵婷如何短短数日从骄傲变辱华/a-56793491 on <<dw>>
.<<chloe-zhao>> holding the 2021 Oscars for best director and best film. The fact that she won was censored in China because she made one single negative comment about the CCP in 2013.
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[[xu-zhangrun]]
==== Xu Zhangrun (许章润)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xu_Zhangrun[Xu Zhangrun]
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/许章润[许章润]
List of external links to essays: https://github.com/zhangrunxu/zhangrunxu.github.io
Other related repositories:
* https://github.com/FreeXZR/Free-Xu-Zhangrun
* 2020 Viral Alarm: When Fury Overcomes Fear about <<covid>> which added him to <<people-arrested-for-reporting-on-the-2019-corona-virus>>
** https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/blob/master/许章润-愤怒的人民已不再恐惧.md[]. Text taken from: https://github.com/AngryFear/FearAndHope[].
** English translation: http://www.chinafile.com/reporting-opinion/viewpoint/viral-alarm-when-fury-overcomes-fear
** https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/blob/master/许章润-我们当下的恐惧与期待.md[]. Text taken from https://hk.news.yahoo.com/許章潤-我們當下的恐懼與期待-全文-105141515.html[] and converted to simplified for the <<little-pink>>s
** commented English translation: https://chinaheritage.net/journal/imminent-fears-immediate-hopes-a-beijing-jeremiad/
** https://github.com/AngryFear/FearAndHope GitHub repository with only that essay
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicky_Xu
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/许秀中
* https://twitter.com/xu_xiuzhong
Lead author of the <<uyghurs-for-sale,Uyghurs for sale report>>.
* https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202104/1220777.shtml by <<global-times>> "'Bewitched' Vicky Xu who fabricates Xinjiang story stokes anti-China sentiment in Australia: observer"
* https://www.163.com/dy/article/G36KA6P80551MFOX.html 一个售卖肉体和灵魂的人——澳大利亚反华女妖许秀中 (A person who sells body and soul - Australian anti-Chinese female demon Vicky Xu) with a Photoshopped image entitled in Chinglish: "A tipster of Vicky Xu's private life - maintain sexual relationships with over 10 men at the same time". The real question in most men's mind is: "where do I sign up?".
* https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-09/vicky-xu-exposing-chinas-human-rights-abuses/11954794
[[howey-ou]]
==== Howey Ou (Chinese Great Thunberg, 欧泓奕, 环保活动家, 2019)
The Chinese https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greta_Thunberg[Great Thunberg]. Environmental activist. She speaks English too.
Mandatory <<zhihu>> question: https://www.zhihu.com/question/354163461 "如何看待中国首位气候活动家欧泓奕?" (What do you think about Chinese climate activist Howei Ou?)
* https://twitter.com/howey_ou
* https://weibo.com/u/7305598806
* 2020-09-25 https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3103548/greta-thunberg-criticises-china-after-climate-striker-ou-hongyi "Greta Thunberg criticises China after climate striker Ou Hongyi held over protest" detained in Shanghai
* 2020-06-20 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/20/chinas-first-climate-striker-cant-return-to-school "China's first climate striker warned: give it up or you can't go back to school"
.Howey Ou skipped classes for a week to protest about climate change in front of the local government office in Guilin, <<guangxi>>, in 2019. TODO transcription of posters. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3094873/howey-ou-chinas-version-greta-thunberg-pays-price-climate[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Howey_Ou_2019.jpg[height=400]
[[university-student-dissidents-abroad]]
==== Chinese university student dissidents abroad (外交中国大学持不同政见者学生)
* 2020-07 Dong Wuyuan 洞物员 (alias Horror Zoo)
** TODO real name? 洞物员 is the same sound as zoo in Chinese (动物园) which matches the English alias
** https://twitter.com/horror_zoo
** https://twitter.com/FakeNewsOfChina account run by Dong, with many funny anti-CCP images
** https://www.voachinese.com/a/the-reach-of-the-state-07032020/5487187.html "党国的手伸向海外每一个角落，要你封口"
** https://hk.appledaily.com/us/20200703/AFQNIBP76SMDK7KXJIR5Q2QAXQ/ "Police try to silence Chinese students abroad with threats to families"
** https://hk.appledaily.com/china/20200703/VR4EYZ4UHTECBUILPY5UBJILSQ/
[[opengl106]]
===== Ji Ziyue 季子越 (2020-06, opengl106, 神楽坂梓月)
* https://github.com/opengl106
** most projects are university course assignments: https://github.com/opengl106/UCAS-assignments-19 | https://github.com/cirosantilli/UCAS-assignments-20 and are generic computer science topics, so maybe not so specialized in bioinformatics
* https://twitter.com/opengl106
** https://web.archive.org/web/20200627190104/https://twitter.com/opengl106 apology post
** 4k followers on Twitter a the time, but small GitHub, so any other external fame source?
* https://tw.news.yahoo.com/陸生罵-支那廢物-事後歉-辜負祖國-155037705.html
** says they are a student from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_the_Chinese_Academy_of_Sciences[UCAS] studying abroad, claims family name is 季 and male, Twitter says they are <<gay-rights,non-binary/pansexual>>
* https://www.dwnews.com/中国/60201684/疑有学生在海外发辱华言论中国科学院大学发紧急声明图 contains real photos taken from some public account, appearing dressed as female
** the university UCAS issued a statement on this saying that would be punished
* <<global-times>> accused them of "reviling the victims of the Nanjing Massacre" https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1192875.shtml true or false?
* https://www.pincong.rocks/article/20899 <<pincong>> "洁洁良第二？疑似中科院大学学生因推特发表「不当言论」被校方关切", commentary compares the case <<tian-jialiang>>
* https://www.zhihu.com/question/403769563 "如何评价中国科学院大学硕士生季子越在社交媒体发表恨国精日言论？" on <<zhihu>>
[[tian-jialiang]]
===== Tian Jialiang (田佳良, 2018)
[[hong-kong-dissidents]]
=== Hong Kong dissidents (香港持不同政见者)
[[joshua-wong]]
==== Joshua Wong (黄之锋)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Wong
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/黃之鋒
* 2020-09-24 arrested: https://hongkongfp.com/2020/09/24/breaking-hong-kong-activist-joshua-wong-arrested-on-suspicion-of-participating-in-an-unauthorised-assembly/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMl1jDjptDk Lessons in Dissent: How One Hong Kong Schoolboy Started A Revolution by Journeyman Pictures (2019)
video::kMl1jDjptDk[youtube,height=400,width=600]
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Chow
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/周庭
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Lai
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/黎智英
[[western-dissidents]]
=== Western anti-CCP dissidents
For pro-CCP dissidents see: <<ccp-apologists>>
[[serpentza-laowhy86]]
==== Winston Sterzel (SerpentZA) and Matthew Tye (laowhy86)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Sterzel
The biggest China expat YouTube channels, and the also collaborated together a lot.
As of 2019, they seem to have moved to the USA because they can't stand harassment by the Chinese government.
Due to their balanced opinions, fluent Chinese, not being <<falun-gong>>, and having lived in China for such a long time, the offer what is arguably the one of best CCP criticisms.
SerpentZA YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl7mAGnY4jh4Ps8rhhh8XZg
laowhy86 YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChvithwOECK5g_19TjldMKw
ADVChina joint YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwNPa8fSXzzAZuT9859GVhg
.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDV4s9c9sfQ "How I Got my Family Out of China" published by laowhy86 on 2020-07-08.
video::kDV4s9c9sfQ[youtube,height=400,width=600]
.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7CPqROtanA "How I Escaped From China - The Untold Story" published by laowhy86 on 2020-07-01.
video::kDV4s9c9sfQ[youtube,height=400,width=600]
.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDV4s9c9sfQ "#65 China Is Getting Worse | Laowhy86 and SerpentZA" published on 2020-04-05. SerpentZA and laowhy86 interview on "China Unscripted", a sister channel of <<china-uncensored>>. This marks them clearly on the side of "openly criticizing the Chinese government".
video::kDV4s9c9sfQ[youtube,height=400,width=600]
.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6PI91n2f9o "China Expels Foreign Press to Protect Its Lies" published on 2020-03-23 during/just after <<covid>>.
video::b6PI91n2f9o[youtube,height=400,width=600]
.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXpPpFzLcZg "China's Winnie The Pooh BAN Explained" published on 2019-10-28 discusses <<winnie-the-pooh>>.
video::NXpPpFzLcZg[youtube,height=400,width=600]
[[lele-farley]]
==== LeLe Farley (乐乐法利)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyYlGTZL-HnnX_UcGkVFH7A
[[aaron-dewitt]]
==== Aaron DeWitt (The Chinese Tea)
* https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9xhMZtll7ssDnSwFRTS_mQ
** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkApnaIZFJw&list=PLvRF9X9O58vKO1GGejwzbLaKBPaW4WdTD contains a playlist he forgot to delete with his own videos, including the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFOh9AoAv2U "TikTok Hired me" URL and: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3hwdsbh6-M "I worked for the Chinese State Department – 中公教育党委 – offcn CCP Committee"
* https://thechineset.com his online shop with anti-CCP memorabilia
* https://www.facebook.com/gayshuaige
** https://www.facebook.com/TheBritishHongKong/posts/httpsyoutubekfoh9aoav2u/10157024077436792/ links to
* https://www.reddit.com/user/dontlikegina is likely his account, as it is basically about him self advertising, and coherent with him likely being gay based on appearance in videos
** https://www.reddit.com/r/BoycottChina/comments/j6iahm/naming_the_racist_companies_that_dont_hire_black/ by dontlikegina points to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6uFGG "Naming the Racist Companies that Don't Hire Black People", see below
* https://www.instagram.com/letsdewitt/
Deleted some of his videos, so likely either legal trouble or intelligence request.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3hwdsbh6-M "I worked for the Chinese State Department – 中公教育党委 – offcn CCP Committee" (2020-08-21), previously titled "Working for the Chinese State Department" is the most eyepopping video based on its description from http://web.archive.org/web/20201102122911if_/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3hwdsbh6-M&feature=youtu.be[archive] (video not visible, only description, likely CIA deletion request):
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Interviewing potential spies for for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China, on behalf of 中公教育 (offcn) - a $30B+ company, funded and managed by the Chinese Communist Party. I worked there from 2019 to 2020. I have lived in China from 2014 - 2020, speak Mandarin Chinese, and am now blacklisted by the Chinese government - a badge of honor.
____
so holy fuck, Ciro actually feels this one could honestly be a <<spy,CIA deletion request>>.
offcn is the short name for the company 中公教育党委 which literally means "Chinese Public Education Party". TODO what do they do exactly? They seem to have strong CCP party links: http://edu.people.com.cn/n1/2018/0510/c1006-29977260.html[], maybe they are a "corporate training" company for the CCP itself.
* https://www.reddit.com/r/taiwan/comments/ie85jr/i_worked_for_the_chinese_state_department_中公教育党委/ claims to be a self post which was later deleted "(I own this video, Taiwan is mentioned multiple times)"
* https://sirmax1.wordpress.com/2020/08/22/i-worked-for-the-chinese-state-department-中公教育党委-offcn-ccp-committee-via-r-wikileaks/
* https://www.reddit.com/r/LIHKG/comments/ies9jh/i_worked_for_the_chinese_state_department_中公教育党委/ on ther <<reddit>> <<lihkg>> backup
* https://www.reddit.com/r/saraba2nd/comments/ieiq7m/外国人爆料i_worked_for_the_chinese_state_department/
<<we-dont-hire-blacks-by-aaron-dewitt-2020>> is the second most eye popping one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFOh9AoAv2U "TikTok Hired Me in China: Exposing their Lies, Insider Leaks" is not archived at all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6uFGGunRxc "Naming the Racist Companies that Don't Hire Black People". According to https://web.archive.org/web/20201007015433if_/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6uFGGunRxc&feature=youtu.be (viewable 2020-12-31) the original title was "Spilling the Chinese Tea" and the description is:
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Discussing companies that operate in America and refuse to hire black people. These companies avoid following U.S. EEO laws because they're headquartered in mainland China, a country that does not protect people of color from racial discrimination.
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The video shows a call with a black man (TODO who is that) where he talks about anti-black racism on employment in China. Nothing eye-popping, mostly references <<we-dont-hire-blacks-by-aaron-dewitt-2020>>. Mentions he is under NDA and cannot reveal the name of the company.
* https://twitter.com/BadChinaTake
* https://wokeglobaltimes.com/
Anonymous anti-CCP mostly <<twitter>> commentary about China, large part of it is making fun of right wing Americans saying stupid things about China with witty comments.
The website contains a small number of high quality analysis articles.
Sources of information pertinent to this repository.
The following offer interesting commentary, but not to be used as primary sources:
* https://china-journal.org
* https://www.chinafile.com Some good articles. "ChinaFile is an online magazine published by the Center on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society", based in New York.
* https://www.iyouport.org/
[[biased-media]]
=== Biased media (偏见媒体)
I consider the media in this section biased, and never cite it for fact-checking.
[[chinese-government-media]]
==== Chinese government media (中国政府媒体)
* Phoenix TV
** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Television
** https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/凤凰卫视
** https://freebeacon.com/national-security/cruz-seeks-to-shut-down-chinese-propaganda-station-phoenix-tv/
[[national-radio-and-television-administration]]
==== National Radio and Television Administration (NRTA, 国家广播电影电视总局)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Radio_and_Television_Administration
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/國家廣播電視總局
[[xinhua]]
==== Xinhua News Agency (新华通讯社, 新华社, CCP media)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinhua_News_Agency
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/新华社
===== New China TV
https://www.youtube.com/user/ChinaViewTV
International propaganda by <<xinhua>>.
Basically as covert as Falun Gong media: <<flg-transparent>>.
[[internal-media-of-china]]
===== Internal media of China (内参)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_media_of_China
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/内参
The name for this top document is the "Big Reference" (大参考), since the 70s down to today in the 2020s.
TODO: there must be websites hosting some level of those, right?
At https://youtu.be/846AtqraCYg?t=615 the BBC mini-documentary series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can%27t_Get_You_Out_of_My_Head_(TV_series)[Can't Get You Out of My Head (2021)] Episode 04 "But What If the People are Stupid" comments that Xinhua had 3 levels of privileged real news for people higher and higher up in the party hierarchy, and that the top one had extra large letters so that the old men who were in that category could read it. See also: <<jiang-zemin-magnify,Jiang Zemin with magnifying glass>>.
This is a good example of <<different-levels-of-truth>>.
[[cctv]]
===== China Central Television (CCTV, 中国中央电视台, CCP media)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Central_Television
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中国中央电视台
* 2011 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12321492 "China TV 'substitutes Top Gun for air force footage'"
[[cgtn]]
====== China Global Television Network (CGTN, 中国环球电视网, CCP media)
* https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgrNz-aDmcr2uuto8_DL2jg
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中国环球电视网
<<cctv>>'s international branch in English, China's <<voa>>.
* 20201-02-04: https://edition.cnn.com/2021/02/04/media/cgtn-uk-license-ofcom/index.html lost UK license
[[peoples-daily]]
===== People's Daily (人民日报, CCP media)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People's_Daily
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/人民日报
The website has per-language and per province subdomains, e.g.:
* http://en.people.cn/
* Province subdomains
** http://js.people.cn/ Jiangsu
* http://fj.people.cn/ Fujian
* https://twitter.com/PDChina
As of 2020, some deleted articles show the home page instead of the article, without redirection. Some examples can be seen at: <<hao-haidong>>.
[[global-times]]
===== Global Times (环球时报, CCP media)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Times
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/环球时报
* https://twitter.com/globaltimesnews https://archive.is/7oshu
* https://www.facebook.com/globaltimesnews/
[[china-daily]]
===== China Daily (中国日报, CCP media)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Daily
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中国日报
[[china-radio-international]]
===== China Radio International (CRI, 中国国际广播电台, CCP media)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Radio_International
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中国国际广播电台
* http://www.cri.cn
* http://english.cri.cn/
Operates for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCRW which is mentioned at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46557096 from <<spy>>. WTF, you have to obviously block them!
[[pro-chinese-government-media]]
===== Pro-Chinese government media (pro-CCP media)
These might be independent, but they are clearly pro CCP and thus cannot be trusted:
* https://kknews.cc/ refers to <<falun-gong>> as an "Evil Cult" (邪教) https://kknews.cc/zh-mo/entertainment/lj4y9yb.html (http://archive.is/osBDv[archive])
* http://facts.org.cn/ anti-religion website in English, basically an English <<kaiwind>>
[[guancha]]
====== Guancha News (观察者网)
YouTube channel, mostly Chinese commentary videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJncdiH3BQUBgCroBmhsUhQ
* anti-<<falun-gong>>: https://www.guancha.cn/politics/2019_09_18_518339.shtml
[[kaiwind]]
====== Kaiwind (pro-CCP media)
Anti-religion, and notably, anti-<<falun-gong>> website in Chinese.
It must be said however that they do contain at least some information that seems to be true/interesting.
Including open secrets that every Falun Gong believer knows about but does discuss much publicly, e.g. details of <<li-hongzhis-family>>, and Sun Senjun's account.
Ciro has no proof that this is linked to the government, but it is very likely, even the Chinese embassy website links to it:
* http://www.china-embassy.org/eng/lj/t36322.htm
* https://web.archive.org/web/20180414233331/http://www.china-embassy.org/eng/lj/t36322.htm
[[falun-gong-media]]
==== Falun Gong media (法轮功媒体)
A great example of how <<falun-gong>> is <<flg-organized,highly organized>>.
Likely highly de-facto controlled by <<li-hongzhi>>, and extremely <<flg-transparent,lacking clear full disclosure of their affiliation>>.
For example, Li refers to Falun Gong media as "our media" in <<flg-canon>>, e.g.: https://falundafa.org/eng/eng/lectures/20090606L.html[].
It could be argued that those media are not "directly" controlled by Li Hongzhi, and Ciro does believe that they were created independently of him initially.
But without doubt they are controlled by his devout followers, and if Li Hongzhi ever gave directions, which Ciro has no proof he has ever done, then those media would follow.
Ciro believes without evidence that Li Hongzhi gives specific directives to the top tenants of those organizations from time to time when important issues arise. Ciro believes that one of such issues is the support of Donald Trump: <<flg-trump>>.
Furthermore, Li appears to directly cite some of the main media in Canon or talk at their conferences as Canon.
One thing must be said in their favour however: they are incorruptible in their fight against the CCP.
* https://medium.com/@Ben_D_Hurley/the-agenda-that-drives-falun-gongs-media-organisations-62201ddeff66[]: Ben Hurley's 2019 overview, notably hitting on <<flg-transparent, transparency issues>>
List of smaller ones that didn't deserve a section:
* https://www.secretchina.com/
* https://fofg.org/
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_of_Hope
** https://www.soundofhope.org/
** https://www.bayvoice.net/gb/
* http://lotus-sacre.com/
* http://dongtaiwang.com
** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freegate
* https://hongzhi.li/ nice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_hack[domain hack]
* https://www.qi-gong.me/
* http://www.zhengjian.org/
* https://www.huaglad.com/ 澳洲新闻 Australian news website, links to <<epoch-times>> on footer: https://web.archive.org/web/20201101122433/https://www.huaglad.com/
* https://visiontimes.com/ Vison Times, Vision China Times, 看中国
** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vision_China_Times
** https://www.visiontimes.com.au/
** https://www.secretchina.com/
At some point both <<epoch-times>> and <<ntdtv>>, previously "independent", were added under a single umbrella organization, known as the "Epoch Media Group".
[[epoch-times]]
===== The Epoch Times (明慧网, Falun Gong media)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Epoch_Times
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/大纪元时报
Falun Gong's newspaper with news for "general public consumption" an no clear affiliation indication.
In <<flg-canon,canon>>: https://gb.falundafa.org/chigb/jiangfa10_3.htm or https://falundafa.org/eng/eng/lectures/20091017L.html "Fa Teaching Given at the Epoch Times Meeting" from 2009-10-17:
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There are so many things you have to do. You have to do your ordinary job and do it well, you have to manage your family's affairs, and as Dafa disciples you need to make time for Fa-study and exercises; you also need to clarify the truth, as well as participate in Dafa projects, such as The Epoch Times.
____
In 2020-11-08 https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/20/11/8/n12534746.htm the Epoch Times published a poem by Li Hongzhi, just after Trump was announced to lose the presidential elections, see also: <<flg-trump>>.
[[ntdtv]]
===== New Tang Dynasty Television (NTD, NTDTV, 新唐人電視台, Falun Gong media)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Tang_Dynasty_Television
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/新唐人電視台
Falun Gong's newspaper with news for "general public consumption" an no clear affiliation indication.
Li speaking to New Tang conference in <<flg-canon,canon>>: https://big5.falundafa.org/chibig5/jiangfa9_3.htm 在新唐人電視討論會上的講法 or https://falundafa.org/eng/eng/jjyz3_73.htm "Fa Teaching Given at the NTDTV Meeting" from 2009-06-06:
Things are changing rapidly as the Fa-rectification forges ahead and as Dafa disciples' righteous thoughts grow stronger. The energy emitted by NTDTV is very strong
"Fa-rectification", amazing jargon, see also "Cult-speak" from <<orange-papers>>.
* https://www.youtube.com/user/Laowaikanzhongguo Laowai kan Zhongguo 老外看中國
* https://www.youtube.com/user/NTDOffTheGreatWall Off the Great Wall
* https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVWMVBg1RPrDlakdmbyTKBA Zooming In with Simone Gao
* https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3HxxpOJ0WWIuZsb7FtSLWQ The BL (The Beauty of Life) No clear indication, but obvious since intro video shows Falun Gong images.
* https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYSHqbSBDD0X3NC-ze8z5xQ 中國禁聞 (Chinese Forbidden News). Nice name, a play of words on "新闻" (xinwen vs jinwen)
[[china-uncensored]]
====== China Uncensored (pro-Falun Gong media)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgFP46yVT-GG4o1TgXn-04Q
Syster interview podcast channel: China Unscripted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o1sZefER0E The three makers of China Uncesored appear on the videos.
Older shows had an "ndt.tv" water mark on top right, e.g. a 2013 video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmMvS3lgJBs
The video description also links to http://e.ntd.tv/NTDChinaUncensored which is now down, but has archives such as https://web.archive.org/web/20130321071835/http://e.ntd.tv/NTDChinaUncensored which suggest a redirect back to the YouTube channel:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZZhVHPaO1ziCc9dRPrgbz2KU0aZF7CJ-
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TODO why did newer videos remove the water mark and clear link? Did they break links, or just to hide Falun Gong influence?
Home page gives extremely unusual importance to Falun Gong resources, e.g.:
* http://www.chinauncensored.tv/about/ (https://web.archive.org/web/20190426203719/http://www.chinauncensored.tv/about/[archive]) "China Uncensored is available to watch on this website, on YouTube, on New Tang Dynasty Television"
* http://www.chinauncensored.tv/campaigns/ (https://web.archive.org/web/20190512160736/http://www.chinauncensored.tv/campaigns/[archive]) "Chinese police illegally arrested Canadian citizen Sun Qian from her home in Beijing for practicing Falun Gong."
* Host Chris Chappell
* Producer Matt Gnaizda: his LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-gnaizda-6598a75/ has a gap from 2009 to 2017, after having graduated from University of California, Berkeley, and worked "regular" jobs. This gap could have been when he converted to Falun Gong and started working for Falun Gong media
** https://twitter.com/mattgnaizda
** https://www.theepochtimes.com/author-matt-gnaizda <<epoch-times>> credits him with several articles between 2005 and 2014
* Humor Ninja Shelley Zhang. She appears appears to be a professional comedy writer:
** https://twitter.com/shelzhang
** https://www.linkedin.com/in/shelley-zhang-a5741a56/
** https://thechinagirls.wordpress.com/
* https://www.quora.com/How-is-the-YouTube-show-China-Uncensored-funded/answer/Ciro-Santilli
* https://www.quora.com/Is-the-YouTube-channel-China-Uncensored-a-trustworthy-source-of-information-on-China
* https://www.theepochtimes.com/youtube-scraped-most-popular-channel-on-china-politics-from-search-suggestions_2675796.html (https://web.archive.org/web/20190119083517/https://www.theepochtimes.com/youtube-scraped-most-popular-channel-on-china-politics-from-search-suggestions_2675796.html[archive]) <<epoch-times>> highlights the channel "Why YouTube's Most Popular Channel on China Politics Doesn't Show in Search Suggestions"
[[minghui]]
===== Minghui (明慧网, Falun Gong media)
Falun Gong's primary "social network"/"Falun Gong"-only news/propaganda website. More Falun Gong specific than <<epoch-times>>.
Li speaking to Minghui conference in <<flg-canon,canon>>: https://big5.falundafa.org/chibig5/jiangfa10_1.htm
TODO how https://www.clearwisdom.net/ compares?
[[shen-yun]]
===== Shen Yun Performing Arts (神韵艺术团, Falun Gong media)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shen_Yun_Performing_Arts
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/神韵艺术团
A good testimony from an ordinary employee from 2013: <<aarvoll-shenyun,Aarvoll's account>>.
Openly directly controlled by <<li-hongzhi>>. He features as director on librettos, e.g. the 2013 one (credited "D. F." (Da Fa) and with his photo).
Shen Yun's headquarters are also located in/near <<dragon-springs>>.
Li mentions Shen Yun in <<flg-canon,canon>>: https://gb.falundafa.org/chigb/jiangfa11_2.htm
On thing Ciro couldn't help but notice is that the "CCP guards beating up Falun Gong people" scenes felt a lot like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_opera[Revolutinary operas] of the <<mao-zedong>> period in their aesthetics. Maybe this is an intentional reference.
.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mQ8plzWl9g "They tried to get me to post Chinese propaganda" by J.J. McCullough (2019) talks about Shen Yun and Falun Gong in general, and how he was offered to post anti-Shen Yun propaganda for 500 dollars.
video::2mQ8plzWl9g[youtube,height=400,width=600]
[[jennifer-zeng]]
===== Jennifer Zeng (曾錚, pro-Falun Gong media)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Zeng
2005 book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Witnessing-History-Womans-Fight-Freedom/dp/1741144000
[[bannedbook]]
===== bannedbook.org (禁闻网, pro-Falun Gong media)
The main Chinese name is 禁闻网 which stands for "banned news network", and is more accurate than the domain name "bannedbook" since the majority of material published appears to be recent banned articles.
Classifying this as Falun Gong media because most or possibly all of the sidebar recommended websites 推荐网站 are also Falun Gong media e.g. as of 2020-04: https://web.archive.org/web/20200427221744/https://www.bannedbook.org/[] includes <<epoch-times>> and https://hongzhi.li/[], so yeah, not much doubt.
From this we deduce that the "banned book" in the domain name originally likely referred more specifically to the banned Falun Gong sacred books: <<flg-canon>>.
TODO who is behind this website? They store full text copies of banned articles, e.g. https://www.bannedbook.org/bnews/baitai/20190816/1175647.html is a full text copy of http://yashalong.blog.caixin.com/archives/188877 which is mentioned at: <<nazi>>.
[[tuidang]]
===== Tuidang movement (退党, Falun Gong media)
* https://tuidang.org/
* https://en.tuidang.org/
Falun Gong campaign asking Chinese people to revoke their CCP membership.
Extremely common when <<falun-gong-preaching>> on the streets in touristic areas where Chinese tourists will be present. Fake names will be accepted, so it is obviously just a symbolic act.
A bit less than 10% of the Chinese population are registered CCP members: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Communist_Party[]. So it is not obligatory, and there likely restrictions. But there must also be some kind of benefits involved. See also: https://daily.jstor.org/communist-party-of-china/
[[usa-government-media]]
==== USA government media (美国政府媒体)
** https://www.voa.com/
** https://www.voachinese.com/
** https://www.voacantonese.com/
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxun https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/博讯
[[ned]]
===== National Endowment for Democracy (NED)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Endowment_for_Democracy
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/美国国家民主基金会
[[boxun]]
====== Boxun (博讯, USA government media)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxun
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/博讯
[[china-digital-times]]
====== China Digital Times (CDT, 中国数字时代, USA government media)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Digital_Times
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中国数字时代
<<ned>>-funded as mentioned e.g. at: https://www.ned.org/china-digital-times-provides-crucial-insight-and-information-about-china-and-the-covid-19/
They have some amazing anti-<<ccp,CCP>> content, notably:
* https://chinadigitaltimes.net/space/Main_Page[Grass-mud-horse Index], mentioned at: <<where-can-i-find-good-words-for-a-keyword-attack>>
* as of 2021, their Chinese content is not well unified with the English one, and is much better, e.g.:
** https://chinadigitaltimes.net/chinese/chronicle-of-major-events list of major events
A scraped mirror of CDT was created on <<github>> pages by Tang Wenzheng from <<fuck-xuexiqiangguo>> is present at:
* https://china-digital-times.github.io/?/
* https://github.com/china-digital-times/china-digital-times.github.io JavaScript SPA that reads data from the data repository, which is stored as JSON (JAMstack)
* https://github.com/china-digital-times/data/ the data
Firs commit Jun 30, 2019. The first article is from 2010, so maybe it did scrape everything. It appears to be automatically updated daily. The images seem to be re-uploaded to https://statically.io/[], e.g. https://china-digital-times.github.io/?/id/664606 contains https://cdn.statically.io/gh/china-digital-times/files/master/2021/04/image-1617989397104.png which just fetches from GitHub automatically: https://github.com/china-digital-times/files/blob/master/2021/04/image-1617989397104.png[] while the original article https://chinadigitaltimes.net/chinese/664606.html stores images locally: https://chinadigitaltimes.net/chinese/files/2021/04/image-1617989397104.png[]. This approach is more censorship resistant, since all images are under a single domain, so takedown would require a full statically domain takedown, which would break other things. Although CDN blocks are not unheard of, e.g. as mentioned at: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/267715/is-stack-overflow-accessible-in-china[].
.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx28EUiKEUc "From 'fart people' to citizens on China's internet | Xiao Qiang | TEDxLiberdade" by TEDx Talks (2014). Presentation by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiao_Qiang[Xiao Qiang] (https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/蕭強[萧强]), founder of <<china-digital-times>>. He was a Physicist from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Science_and_Technology_of_China[USTC] who went mad after <<tiananmen>>. <<wife>> also studied there and said that's the most anti-CCP of all big Chinese universities.
video::MCxzMYVvHBg[youtube,height=400,width=600,start=227]
[[hric]]
====== Human Rights in China (organization, HRIC, 中国人权)
* https://www.hrichina.org/en
* https://www.hrichina.org/chs
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Rights_in_China_(organization)
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中国人权_(组织)
[[hoover-institution]]
===== Hoover Institution (胡佛研究所, USA government media)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover_Institution
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/胡佛研究所
[[jamestown-foundation]]
===== Jamestown Foundation (USA government media)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Welle
[[bbc]]
===== BBC (英国广播公司, British government media)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/英国广播公司
[[dw]]
===== Deutsche Welle (DW, 德国之声, German government media)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Welle
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/德国之声
[[bitter-winter]]
===== Bitter Winter (寒冬)
* https://bitterwinter.org/
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CESNUR
Italian-based magazine about freedom of religion.
China category: https://bitterwinter.org/category/china/news/
* <<chinese-human-rights-defenders>>
* <<front-line-defenders>>
* <<hric>>
[[amnesty-international]]
====== Amnesty International (国际特赦组织)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnesty_International
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/國際特赦組織
UK based, had investments from United States and European governments.
[[human-rights-watch]]
====== Human Rights Watch (人权观察)
* https://www.hrw.org/
* https://www.hrw.org/zh-hans
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Rights_Watch
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/人权观察
2018 graph that everyone needs to see: https://ei.marketwatch.com/Multimedia/2018/02/28/Photos/NS/MW-GE557_MediaB_20180228115701_NS.jpg
[[voa]]
===== Voice of america (VOA, 美国之音, USA government media)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_of_America
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/美国之音
===== Radio Free Asia (RFA, 自由亚洲电台, USA government media)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Free_Asia
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/自由亚洲电台
Just because they are/were funded/founded by the CIA, it doesn't mean that we can't use their xref:rebel-pepper[amazing satirical cartoons] to fight xref:dictatorship[], right?
[[hong-kong-media]]
=== Hong kong media (香港媒体)
[[scmp]]
==== South China Morning Post (SCMP, 南华早报)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_China_Morning_Post
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/南華早報
<<hong-kong>> based, but bought by <<alibaba>> in 2016, but it still continued to publish censored stuff widely, e.g.:
[[apple-daily]]
==== Apple Daily (苹果日报)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Daily
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/蘋果日報_(香港)
Website: https://hk.appledaily.com/ Fully down 2021, long live <<wayback-machine>>.
Pro-democracy. Raided soon after <<hong-kong-national-security-law>> started.
Forced to shutdown 2021-06: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/23/hong-kong-apple-daily-symbol-of-pro-democracy-movement-to-close
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf-qyxEIuHI Hong Kong billionaire's last interview as a free man by BBC News (2021)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_Free_Press
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/香港自由新聞
=== Media that we are not sure is biased or not
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caixin
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/财新传媒
Beijing based, but does publish stuff that seems to be very sensitive:
* <<covid>> Government fuckups
* https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-35761277 "China magazine Caixin defiant on censorship of article"
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcZOZrP1P_V5d7RMOKXF1PT70fcfYJpgY[]: <<ciro-santilli>>'s "China Politics" playlist. It is a collection of all sensitive videos he has ever found on YouTube. Ping him if you find any he hasn't included.
Interesting videos that were deleted/made private since he added them: