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Ridiculous Chinese censorship used AI to change the gay couple in Together (2025) to a heterosexual couple
(hexbear.net)
Usually, they only censor the explicit content. But this is the first time that AI tools were used to directly alter the content of the original film.
By the way, the film has been withdrawn from a wide release in China after receiving too many complaints.
You can make that argument if you want but just realize you're just saying the free market rules supreme and this is a slippery slope.
Next when Chinese capitalist media shows even more bigotted views you can also excuse it away by just shrugging it off "but why would the government ever control the media in the first place".
You can't simultaneously make the argument that the CPC controls capitalists which is the #1 excuse dengists make, and then turn around and say "but yes actualy the bigoted censorship thing is completely laissez faire capitalism the CPC has no control over".
People can cope however they want but holding simultaneously exclusive views should be a red(no pun intended) flag.
Isn't this what the reddit nerds call strawmanning? I don't hold any of those views. I would very much like China to enforce an ultra gay state. All media should be forced to be gay and China should be criticised for not using state power to achieve that. The fact that China has allowed its population to remain culturally backwards and homophobic for so long instead of using the state to push social views forwards is absolutely something it should be criticised for.
I can absolutely hold that view while simultaneously saying "But this isn't censorship by the government".
The argument is, if anything, that companies have been given too much freedom, not that they should be allowed to do this, in contrast with the implied thesis that this specific case of censorship was directly enforced by the CPC.