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Yellow, violent blogsPosted by Jeremy Goldkorn on Wednesday, March 18, 2009 at 9:26 PM
 Very yellow, very violent PR maven and media junkie China blogger Imagethief is back on form, despite his Twitter problem; see this post: The People's Daily as ritual rather than news In which Imagethief considers this post by Christian Science Monitor Beijing correspondent Peter Ford, based on this Chinese blog post (a repost of FangKC's original) that shows People's Daily front pages about the annual "Two Sessions" government congress from 2004 to 2009, all featuring almost exactly the same design and layout. The Chinese blog's name is 'Very Yellow, Very Violent' (很黄很暴力 - see ChinaSMACK glossary for explanation). Most of Very Yellow, Very Violent is yellow rather than violent. |
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let me be the first to say that, content notwithstanding, i see nothing wrong with consistent formatting.
What was the point of going from A to B to C and back to A' ...
OK it's a link titled "very yellow.." but DUDE you gotta slap a warning on that! i half asleepily thought it would be some news story, and then BLAM! porn on my monitor....
vam:
Sorry: at Danwei we do not take responsibility for the repressive environment in which you may live or work.
And "porn" is a bit strong for the stuff to which we linked.
Wait - who's the porn? Me, People's Daily or Very Yellow/Very Violent? And I don't have a Twitter problem. I could quit any time if I wanted to. Honestly. I'll show you. Tomorrow. Or maybe the day after. I'll tweet about it.
the too yellow blog does indeed contain pornography as defined by state of california
"the too yellow blog does indeed contain pornography as defined by state of california"
- If the state of California defines it as pornography... then it must be so.
I agree with vam that some sort of warning is in order - along the lines of "Those of you who are easily offended by scantily clad, attractive young women in sexually suggestive poses with what appears to be actual semen dripping from their lips might want to avoid this link."
In addition to posting softcore porn, the Very Yellow, Very Violent blog has also posted an open letter to Hu Jintao from a former PLA soldier named Zhang Shijun who refused to participate in the suppression of the student movement in June 1989.
Zhang Shijun has now apparently been arrested for writing/publishing the letter. See the following link for more info: link
For those who read Chinese, Zhang Shijun's open letter to Hu Jintao can be found at: link
China Digital Times has more on the arrest of the PLA soldier Zhang Shijun at:
link
CDT's post includes a partial English translation of Zhang's open letter to Hu Jintao.
repressive environment? it's just me and my computer at my place... what about NSFW? what if there were kids around? what about basic internet etiquette?
and... porn is imagery (etc) that's designed to be sexually arousing... bro, those shots, they're not form art...