One hopes that the US’s National Security Administration agents are smarter than they come off in the translated post below, but you never know! In any event, this joke has been being passed around the Chinese internet, and can be found here, among other places. Some netizens have interpreted as fact, which I discuss and [...]
Anti-CNN Members Spam CNN Poll on Tibetan Independence
Feb 24th, 2010
In the wake of President Obama’s meeting with the Dalai Lama, and this CNN poll indicating most Americans think Tibet should be independent, the Dalai Lama went on Larry King Live. In keeping with that show’s tradition of internet straw polling, Larry asked viewers the same question CNN asked Americans last week: Should Tibet be [...]
“A Democracy Advocate’s Training Manual”
Feb 20th, 2010
A few days ago we published a translation of the satirical Fifty Cents Party Training Manual. In the interest of fairness and at the request of some Anti-CNN commenters, we now bring you a translation of this, a similar sendup of democracy advocates.
Translation
First item: This egg tastes great, because it is a democratic egg.
Second item: [...]
“Without the GFW, Could China Win Western Public Opinion?”
Jan 28th, 2010
This forum post on Anti-CNN asks the question of netizens: “Without the Great Firewall, would China be able to occupy the battlefield of the Western public discourse?” Here is a sampling of some of the responses by Chinese netizens:
NO IT CANNOT.
1) China lacks language skills. You should know most people only study foreign languages to [...]
Netizen Thoughts on Ai Weiwei
Jun 18th, 2009
Since we translate Ai so frequently, and since there’s been such discussion about him in the comments as of late, we thought it might be useful to offer a little perspective. For comparison, we’ll translate the some of the comments on Ai’s blog as well as some of the comments on an Anti-CNN post. Both [...]
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