This is par for the course in China, with Winnie the Pooh, and Peppa Pig both being recent victims of the country’s particular brand of humorless censorship. Jinri Toutiao, China’s popular news aggregator, was the first to ban the comics site, and Youku, a popular video platform also banned the videos from the site.īaozou’s CEO Ren Jian released a statement apologizing for their transgression of the law, and thanking their fans and the media for their strict supervision and complaints so that the company “can see deficiencies clearly and do better in the future.” And Baozou wasn’t just shut down on Weibo. Weibo shut down 16 different accounts for failing to adhere to the “Heroes and Martyrs Protection Act,” at the behest of the Cyberspace Administration. Aside from drawn comics, Baozou expanded into making short videos with a host wearing a mask to look like one of the rage faces.īaozou had more than 10 million followers on Weibo, just one of China’s social media sites that has banned the comics site. The Baozou comics site is so popular that just one of their rage comics has been optioned by Netflix for $30 million. at different points, but for the Chinese they’be become a staple of internet culture and subversive dissent. As a meme they’be been popular in the U.S. Rage comics are crudely drawn (or photoshopped) with a few panels and a punchline at the end. On May 1st, China’s National People’s Congress enacted the “Heroes and Martyrs Protection Act,” making it illegal to mock communist martyrs and heroes. The post in question was a video of someone wearing a rage face mask making a joke about Dong Cunrui, a soldier who blew himself up to destroy a Nationalist party bunker in 1948 during the Chinese Civil War. Rage comics in China are now under fire, with one of the countries most popular sites, Baozou, being targeted for a post from 2014. Graphic Novels: Suggestions for Librarians.Working With Libraries! A Handbook For Comics Creators.Know Your Rights: Student Rights Fact Sheet.Raising a Reader! How Comics & Graphic Novels Can Help Your Kids Love To Read!.Adding Graphic Novels to Your Library or Classroom Collection.Kirkpatrick, NY State Court of Appeals (1973) Obscenity Case Files: Joseph Burstyn, Inc.Des Moines Independent Community School District Obscenity Case Files: United States v.Pacifica Foundation (George Carlin’s Seven Dirty Words)

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