1299: Laowhy86 | Decoding the Secret Slang of China's Censored Internet

0:00If you talk about specifically just eggs, that's like how to express discontent. Pretty soon they'll just make it illegal to talk about eggs. Protests in China are massively cracked

0:07[music] down upon. If the government decides that you're having a discussion about something they don't want you to talk about, that gets you 5 years in prison. People would literally just hold

0:15up an A4 size piece of paper. So, China is actually banning the sale that people couldn't buy blank paper. These protests do happen in China. There are people that do want freedom and democracies and

0:25they get murdered by the government. People are literally risking their freedom and lives to post these things. So, you're just you're sitting in front of this street seat. So, it's not like

0:34live, you don't have like a a camera in some dude's window in Beijing. I mean, we we kind of used to. That would be really neat, but probably illegal. I don't I don't know.

0:45>> [laughter] >> At least in New York >> It's very illegal. It's very illegal for the people that we're getting footage for us, that's for sure. Yeah, that I always wondered about that. It's like,

0:53oh, you know, this is the they don't want to show this and someone's like, let me just send you guys a 1080p high-res video of the thing that Right. >> to show. Like, all right. Maybe. Yeah.