How to improve Chinese TV? Better censorship, says top tellie-maker

The founder and chairman of Chinese electronics maker TCL has taken the bold step of suggesting China's censors "improve" their work, to help his company sell more televisions ... and help China succeed at home and abroad. Li Dongsheng's exhortation was bold because he voiced it during the recent National People's Congress – …

[Winkypop]

Telescreens

You, yes you, citizen!

Time for your daily 4 hour propaganda session.

Please assume the patriotic position.

[cyberdemon]

Re: Telescreens

The part where Orwell was wrong in his prescience is about the size of the telescreens - They would not be on the wall, but in your pocket.

[Winkypop]

Re: Telescreens

Indeed.

However, I feel a large wall-mounted screen may be more sinister/effective.

[simonlb]

Re: Telescreens

In your pocket, so that you can watch entitled Karen's on social media and join in the "Two Minutes Hate" whenever you like.

[Evil Scot]

Re: Telescreens

Entitled Karens on social media.

OR

Entitled Karen's Social Media ?

[Casca]

I miss Hong Kong action movies...

[lglethal]

Yep there were definitely some classics.

None of them would get by the sensors these days though, as they often showed corrupt politicians or dirty cops. Or just happened to show that criminals and Organised Crime do happen to exist in China (and I'm not talking about peaceful protestors)...

[iron]

Are these light sensors, heat sensors, oh maybe touch sensors? Or just maybe you meant censors?

[MiguelC]

Mind corruption sensors, of course!

[lglethal]

Man I hate Autocorrect...

Mental Note to self: When writing a message on my phone, make sure to read it back to check that Autocorrect hasnt fluffed the message.... Again...

[RM Myers]

Man I hate Autocorrect...

Wait until AI completely takes over the phone ecosystem - we'll be begging for old fashion autocorrect lunacy.

[Trigonoceps occipitalis]

Re: Man I hate Autocorrect...

I fear that AI taking over my phone will make me wish for the return of Clippy.

[StrangerHereMyself]

Channels

One hundred channels and there's nothing on TV!

(Except boring CCP propaganda)

No wonder the Chinese are turning off their TV's and migrating towards gaming. Until the CCP turns those into propaganda as well.

[KayJ]

Never did get the adulation for The Three Body Problem, it wasn't anything new, or interesting and it felt like the _shocking novelty_ of a major sf story coming from China temporarily overrode all other consideration.

[WigglesVonSpiggles]

Portable streaming is a thing

Is the gentleman from TCL perhaps unaware that a large proportion of the population now streams TV on their phones, laptops, and other mobile devices and not his shiny TVs?

[I am David Jones]

„Better censorship“. Now there’s an interesting concept…

[yetanotheraoc]

Coded language

Reading between the lines I took him to mean "less censorship", which of course is a forbidden thought, whereas "better censorship" is allowed. Today you censor A. If tomorrow you improve it by censoring B instead, the net result is to stop censoring A, without calling it that.

[Pascal Monett]

"How to improve Chinese TV"

Please explain why I would want to improve Chinese TV.

We already have fuck all to watch here. The Chinese can go improve their TV at their own leisure.

[Anonymous Coward]

Why don't you ...

turn off your television set and go and do something less boring instead ....

[John Savard]

They Seem to Have Been Trying

I saw an interesting video with some music in it on YouTube, and it made me curious enough to find out where it came from.

It turned out that it was from a Chinese movie, made in the PRC, that showed young people successfully rebelling against their teachers at a music school. However, the rebellion was of a patriotic nationalist nature: the teachers were focusing on Western music and instruments, and downgraded and dismissed traditional Chinese music and musical instruments.

So they do seem to have been trying to reconcile ideological purity with genuine entertainment for some time now.

The movie of which I speak is "Our Shining Days" from 2017.

[HuBo]

Re: They Seem to Have Been Trying

Right on! The PRC is in a GDR-like dead-end, where all the kids want to be hip, speak American, and wear jeans. Shouldn't be long now before Mr. Xi Jinping "tears down this wall" of nonsensical anti-human panopticoned robot-life-ism that is choking the youth into uncomfortable zombie numbness. Sex, drugs, and rock'n'roll is the natural emancipation of the human teenage species, shaking those hips, letting lose, and being temporarily a complete degenerate to authoritarian party constipation.

As the Berurier Noir nearly sang, the Chinese youth sh*ts on the PRC! (IMHO)