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'Voices of April' is a video containing edited audio snippets that show the reality of a Covid-stricken Shanghai where residents struggle with feelings of powerlessness. The video seeped into every corner of WeChat, but not long after, it was gone. Read: https://t.co/uqHFFC6X6S pic.twitter.com/2z2NTAASYw
— What's on Weibo (@WhatsOnWeibo) April 22, 2022
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Maker of the video Voices of April said on WeChat that he hopes people stop re-posting it.
— Wenhao (@ThisIsWenhao) April 23, 2022
He said he was moved by a lot of the comments he received. But he doesn’t want the video to “spread towards other directions”. He said his families are worried. pic.twitter.com/Yeg3w0Fcjg
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Hu Xijin, the former editor of nationalist tabloid the Global Times weighed in late on Friday night to justify the erasure of the video. He said the internet was invented by the west, so when it entered China it ought to be “sinofied”.
— William Yang (@WilliamYang120) April 23, 2022
… to examine whether our party has the ability to manage a big city and the whole country.”
— William Yang (@WilliamYang120) April 23, 2022
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Hu Xijin weighs in on the censoring of the Shanghai video, saying that “internet was invented by the West” so there has to be modifications to China-fy it, such as censorship. He encourages people to remain trustful of the government and believes that soon this chapter will pass. pic.twitter.com/DyTl7s8D21
— Wenhao (@ThisIsWenhao) April 22, 2022
In the balance of things you must also report how the 14.5k (and climbing) comments are mostly cursing him out……
— Ash (@AshinChina) April 23, 2022
He's getting killed in the comments though lol
— LeLeFarley 樂樂法利 (@lelefarley) April 22, 2022
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Hu Xijin is right about one thing — nobody cares about what he says. https://t.co/YuACnQ4WKE
— Phil Cunningham (@jinpeili) April 23, 2022
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Hu Xijin knows full well “acted upon by the government” in China means the poster will be tracked down, arrested and sent to “reeducation” camp to serve out some long sentence of hard labor.
— I watched C-beams glitter in the dark 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇹🇼 (@accidentalflyer) April 23, 2022
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@HuXijin_GT true to his Pravda form on WeiBo today: “it’s not unusual for people to express their pent-up anger in lockdowns on the internet. Censoring these opinions by the authorities doesn’t mean their views are not listened to by all levels of governments” pic.twitter.com/oF37GvV1gF
— 杨涵 Han Yang (@polijunkie_aus) April 23, 2022
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Hu Xijin's spin on the censored Shanghai video:
— Fergus Ryan (@fryan) April 22, 2022
In China, when posts get censored, the government takes note of the complaints and makes improvements.
In the West, you can post whatever you want but nobody will listen and it's just a waste of time. https://t.co/wkrqluKZtE
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