[themodelplumber]

According to people in China it's all over state approved social media, not just Western sources. Edit: Posted there, presumably seen by many, then taken down later.

https://twitter.com/vivianwubeijing/status/15966826381311713...

(Note that this journo appears to be threatened downthread, in Chinese on Twitter)

At least one journo, maybe it was this one, says they've seen nothing like it in their 10 years there.

Edit: 51 universities have also seen protests. Seemingly includes students holding signs of a formula...?

https://twitter.com/vivianwubeijing/status/15967562737305026...

Context: Total lockdown circumstances leading to e.g. deaths in lockdown fires. China simultaneously reporting record highs in COVID cases; Chinese vaccine apparently seen/known to be less effective than others.

[mlindner]

This is curious as China has strict control over the internet. If they didn't want to allow these posts to be up in China then they wouldn't be up (any western archives will of course stick around). Either Xi is losing control of the government or he's letting this happen for some purpose.

[sgu999]

Or he's not really aware of it, or at least the scale of it, because he surrounded himself with people who wouldn't dare tell him something he may dislike.

[tianqi]

That is Friedmann Equation. Homophone of "freedom".

[techdragon]

This is the sort of thing that is while easily understandable in principle, can be remarkably hard to keep up with. I’m aware of the general trend with how Chinese dissent is often done by pun like manipulation to avoid censorship, but it can be completely inscrutable at times when it’s something like a Chinese regional dialect specific homophone. They often frequently mutate as they spread, forcing the censorship efforts to play catch up on a massive scale… often the only good link for the censors will be proximity and volume, which is why you get some downright Orwellian sorts of things from time to time like the recent events leading to brief periods where the word “Bridge” was seeing people in certain locations getting flagged by the censors.

So thank you so much for providing the necessary context!

[caligarn]

The twitter account mentioned here appears to be based in New York and is from western media. Her bias seems to be obvious? How can she have a legit read on what Chinese locals are seeing on television, social media, and media?

[sneakerblack]

It's in her bio:

> Media studio co-founder. has worked as Head of BBC Hong Kong Bureau & BBC Chinese News Editor. China Editor @initiumnews. Legal reporter @scmpnews and others

SCMP is a Hong Hong-based news outlet. I'm assuming she has her sources, since all you need is someone in china with a VPN or someone in Hong Kong in mainland with WeChat/Weibo account that has access to community groups