China's Current Censorship Is Ridiculous

O.K. I have been thinking about writing on this for a while. Facing shit load of work this has to wait. But as the time goes by, things are getting serious, and in the end, down right ridiculous, to a degree that I can not believe I am living in a country that most earth people think as a modern country.

Everything now is political, yet really no one cares about politics.

Everyday people I know of, cares less about politics, than a volcano burst on a remote planet. Most of the people I know goes to work everyday, and rest, repeat. Unlike America right now where politics sometimes considered as a dirty word, in China, politics is a distant and rather boring word. Years of Chinese education, politics as a subject is being taught, less importantly than, say math, but being taught from a very young age all the same. In Chinese so called politics classes, little about democracy process or legal systems are in there. Instead, it's almost all about one logic, over and over again, from 1st grade to even doctoral degree. That logic is, only Chinese Communist Party (CCP) could save China, and only CCP can help China grow. In other words, the legitimacy of CCP monopoly rule. Now imagine being taught this for so many times, that the word politics in the end becomes a boring subject. And politics as a whole, becomes disconnect with everyday life.

Of course there are people cares about the going ons in the high ranks of CCP, or local branches, The in fightings, and all, can be an interesting topics for some. And occasionally some groups of people would express openly on some political issues, just to be seen as a grass root political movement but few are fooled.

But for some reason, or honestly, for the same reason politics as a subject in China being so boring, legitimacy of rule, now everything is political.

First goes bunch of social media accounts which only focus on entertainments. That's weird. Why shutting down those whose media presents have nothing to do with politics, by force of a nation machine? Then a flood of even weirder and similar stuff happened. The latest one being forcing TV stations showing only propaganda shows at prime time. And yes, VPNs are being cracked down like never before.

Yet little is being discussed inside the Great Firewall of China (GFW). Everyday people still don't care. Censorship as a tool being used without moderation of any kind, things are bond to become weirder, and downright ridiculous.

To be honest I don't care. Personally I really don't want to spend my time on stuff that are being censored anyways. But this ridiculousness, just got me.