Tweet with pictures for reference. I'm hardly an expert on Top Gun lore but each flag being replaced with a visually similar design seems to indicate this is meant to look like the original jacket...
Tweet with pictures for reference. I'm hardly an expert on Top Gun lore but each flag being replaced with a visually similar design seems to indicate this is meant to look like the original jacket at a glance and the decision to remove the flags was a conscious one and not just "it's a different jacket."
I know this isn't the most pressing issue of our time but the chilling effect of this kind of soft censorship of topics that might make China uncomfortable is still worrying. This is especially true of anything related to Taiwan where international opinion can have pretty big consequences for its continued existence as an independent state.
(Also, this link is the best source I could find, but anyone feel free to post others that are better.)
This has already been happening regularly for years. Here's an interesting report on it from the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission from 2015 (link to PDF): Directed by Hollywood,...
this is basically inevitable unless corporations want to miss out on china money, and the overwhelming majority of them are not about to potentially burn all their bridges with the chinese...
I know this isn't the most pressing issue of our time but the chilling effect of this kind of soft censorship of topics that might make China uncomfortable is still worrying.
this is basically inevitable unless corporations want to miss out on china money, and the overwhelming majority of them are not about to potentially burn all their bridges with the chinese government and potentially permanently lose out on that market just to take a stand on taiwan or some other subject china doesn't appreciate. it sucks if you're taiwan, but really if you're relying on corporations alone to continue to advance your portrayal in the media you've already fucked up.
I think we should be making a big deal of this. If Hollywood wants to make censored versions of movies for China, that's fine, but I don't think anyone in the rest of the world is OK with the idea...
I think we should be making a big deal of this. If Hollywood wants to make censored versions of movies for China, that's fine, but I don't think anyone in the rest of the world is OK with the idea that the content they consume is being censored by a foreign authoritarian government.
Tweet with pictures for reference. I'm hardly an expert on Top Gun lore but each flag being replaced with a visually similar design seems to indicate this is meant to look like the original jacket at a glance and the decision to remove the flags was a conscious one and not just "it's a different jacket."
I know this isn't the most pressing issue of our time but the chilling effect of this kind of soft censorship of topics that might make China uncomfortable is still worrying. This is especially true of anything related to Taiwan where international opinion can have pretty big consequences for its continued existence as an independent state.
(Also, this link is the best source I could find, but anyone feel free to post others that are better.)
This has already been happening regularly for years. Here's an interesting report on it from the
U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission from 2015 (link to PDF): Directed by Hollywood, Edited by China: How China’s Censorship and Influence Affect Films Worldwide
this is basically inevitable unless corporations want to miss out on china money, and the overwhelming majority of them are not about to potentially burn all their bridges with the chinese government and potentially permanently lose out on that market just to take a stand on taiwan or some other subject china doesn't appreciate. it sucks if you're taiwan, but really if you're relying on corporations alone to continue to advance your portrayal in the media you've already fucked up.
I think we should be making a big deal of this. If Hollywood wants to make censored versions of movies for China, that's fine, but I don't think anyone in the rest of the world is OK with the idea that the content they consume is being censored by a foreign authoritarian government.