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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Lin Yuwei and Wu Yanni, China’s entrants in the women’s 100m hurdles final, embraced after the race at the Asian Games in Hangzhou.

Internet censorship in China, particularly of images, is often done on an ad-hoc basis with human monitors deciding which posts to restrict.

In 2017, Weibo, one of China’s biggest social media platforms with nearly 600 million monthly users, said it employed 1,000 “supervisors” to report on “pornographic, illegal and harmful” content.

That Wu had been allowed to run at all prompted concern that race officials were reluctant to disqualify one of China’s star athletes, regardless of sporting rules.

Mark Dreyer, a China-based sports analyst who was in the stadium for the event, wrote afterwards: “It just felt like the local officials needed to find a way to let Wu run”.

On Weibo, posts from ordinary netizens showing the greyed out squares of Wu and Lin’s “6/4” hug, the comments were more muted.


The original article contains 431 words, the summary contains 155 words. Saved 64%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the summary contains 155 words. Saved 64%

Careful bot, that number is forbidden now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don’t understand, what’s the problem with the number 64 now?

[–] 3ntranced 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

6/4 or June 4th 1989, the date of the Tiennamen Square Massacre.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ah ok thank you!

[–] SaakoPaahtaa 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yea im not having it, all powers of 2 are good in my books

[–] Some_username_u_have 3 points 1 year ago