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The listening posts they with this how many nukes is too many new america has in many ways driven the Arms Race parties are much more like the british parties down to the there are fewer regulations to own a tiger than their our own. A dog. How can this be happening, your weekly take on us politics and can i see . And thats the Bottom Line for the last meal, because you mentioned when you got to the crackdowns were playing into an obvious restructuring of both social and home life. Hello. I mean, actually that the and youre at the listening post, this is where we detect the way the media work. What gets covered and why its covered that way. Here to the story were looking at, the speaker wants to control what it calls badly behave, superstars out of control, super fans. I monopolistic big tech. Indigenous colombians have been toppling statues of european colonizers, challenging how the Countrys History is. Remembered Media Shut downs and misinformation a month of tal. A bundle is leaving, its mark on of kind of sounds, news, industry. And the taliban has been dictating terms on what off can women can, where triggering some serious pushback online. Do not touch my clothes, shows off, can women in their true color . The indications have been there for months in speeches, policy, proposals, and party propaganda. But in the past week or so, its become clear that teaching Things China has embarked on a campaign that could transform the countrys tech, Entertainment And Media industries. Much of the parties current focus has been on regulating Chinas Tech giants that have grown at warp speed. Establishing monopolies and abusing consumer data. Officials are also asserting control over the rocket and often toxic world of Celebrity And Pop culture. The communist party has advocated for stars who quote, uphold political literacy, moral conduct, and artistic standards. It has criticized a feminine men on screen and has sought to curb an obsessive fan culture. All these decrees have been presented as being aimed at the moral well being of citizens. Critics are calling them an overreach of a paternalistic state. A Starting Point this week is the cult of celebrity in china the thinking like, you know, near to him, william to sounds like hes a good evening you can do without him to kid. Weve actually way out. Hopefully, the show this story almost reads like the Screen Play for the t. V. Drama. Except that it is in fact very soon, and its playing out across china. On one side you have some of the countries, most popular young celebrities, actors, musicians, online influences with fan followings in the hundreds of millions. On the other side, the seat is set of policy make good men in sooth, looking to instill some Discipline And Propriety on an industry that many would have thought to frivolous. To attract much of asians attention for the chinese communist party. And for the chinese government. It has always been crucial to occupy what they call the Commanding Height of ideological background. So in that regard, these regulations targeting celebrities, our church and time and media, im not exactly frivolous because there are political implications and payments media and celebrity voucher. Were starting to see more specific guidelines and in some cases like training resources. Being released for these celebrities and influencers. Not just in terms of like political correctness, but also in terms of how they dress, how they sort of conduct themselves. Its interesting, its not just the conduct of celebrity themselves because they cross down on but also the conduct of their fans as well. My goal is to ensure that can be very active. Even raven seen it is developed into a subculture that is very vivid, very lively. You look at some of these websites and chat groups, its in a language in india, and that frightens people who like Order And Control like the chinese come, his tidy, the 2021 has been a mentor for the chinese communist party. The ccp in july, it marked its intensity. The challenge at the home of the 500. 00 m. The country is president feagins being in his 9 years in office. He has not been shy about his desire to stay longer in his post, even orchestrating the removal of term limits on the presidency, so that he can remake the chinese state in accordance with his vision. Over many months, she has been reiterating his blueprint for the next piece of chinas development. In the Chem Shantee there mean . Hopefully, she can only mean james on the flu of new regulations on the Tech Industry and on the Entertainment Sector are part of what she calls the common prosperity plan. Policies to narrow the growing West Gap in the country, the furtive move, but the party, im the president seem confident now is there time Shooting Pin has banks a lot of not just regime supports, but the political capital that is in Part Or Result of chinas relatively good handling of the crew of our supper demick. He believes that he is now able to do some pretty bold things to really fundamentally reshape, becoming decades through technology and through the communist parties. Hold on culture through, you know, its increasing involvement in the economy of the state. We have seen for some time that shes being wants to instill a new sense of Purpose And Discipline and orthodoxy on chinese culture. But i think it really began with chinese canadian Singer Actor general celebrity called chris who, who has been accused of sexually assaulting some of his fans, rate accusations against a Pop Star has pushed chinas me to movement back into the spotlight. I think that particular scandal, perhaps escalated attention to this issue in chinese society, but also being chinese Policy Making and leadership as well. Ah, can be broke in july, this year, unleashing a torrent of vicious online attacks from his followers against some of his alleged victims. It wasnt the 1st time. Overzealous times had created headlines in china. Ways. I think one probably your highest its i thought you would should have gotten to the challenging wasnt not competitive. Fandom drives, online Engagement And Revenue for many of the agencies and brands, and studios that back. Chinas top celebrities. However, it led to numerous instances of obsessive stocking, persistent trolling, as well as unchecked spending by young fans on products. Dad. Idols indoors made a boy up until blank, down to the door, yakking Dash Bunk Champion height 20. So again, g 2 junction by 20, at the same time as all this have been a dizzying idea of new regulations, but chinas online space, the effect, thousands of businesses from Taxi Healing companies like dd, 2, multimedia and kick conglomerate. Its like 10 cent and social media behemoths like bite dance, that only tick tock on the regulators radar. I data privacy, tech monopolies and predictive algorithms. Ah, so these are actually issues that western government and the regular postal Wrapping Wave facing the astronomical growth of digital platforms. These are companies that are really abusing their power because they have grown into such giant digital platforms. And they often almost as the structure of many other daily public studies in china. Users are being more and more concerned with how corporations are able to access and use their data, especially tense. Alibaba which, you know, given the portfolio of companies within these 2 friends, they can make quite detailed profiles of, you know, people shopping spending, health data. So on and so forth. So its a thing that a lot of people in china say its long overdue quote. Apart from a concern to customers, which i dont think was entirely fine by any means. I think theres also plenty of web, there, a sense that these companies are getting away with this because they think theyre getting a bit to politically after the as well. And therefore, we need to put them in line and remind them that as they go low making profit, they will have to remember what the political Bottom Line is in china. News. The chinese government regulatory spree has stirred debate amongst citizens, investors and international media. Some are calling it a new cultural revolution. The 2nd, the cultural revolution, comparisons with mouth cultural revolution back in the late 1900 sixties and seventies have abounded. But theres been off the marked. So i think a lot of people make comparison between whats happening to the cultural revolution, just out of abject ignorance than the appeal of using such a comparison is because that is the only sort of political that the Mass Campaign that they are aware of. The cultural revolution actually was effort by Mouth Kind of do an end run around of the party itself. And to attack the party using sort of, you know, the mobile is ation of young people from its flags. The main victim of the cultural revolution was the communist party itself. And so that is clearly not what is happening right now. This is the party itself being more assertive. It is something that she has kind of articulated all along the vision of Power And Prosperity for a china led by the chinese hobbies party. Me this Week Mark a month of taliban roland of kind of sun, and its becoming increasingly clear what the takeover means for the countries media. Johanna who have been following developments. Jo, whats the latest . Well, earlier this week, colo news, which is of kind of stands most widely watched of Television News Network reports that at least 153 of gun media organizations have seized operate since august 15th, which is the day that the former government fell to the taliban. These outlets include newspapers, radio stations, television channels, and at least 20 provinces. A media workers at these organizations have cited new restrictions under the taliban as well as economic hardship and the main reasons for terminating their activities. Now the taliban has repeatedly claimed that is committed to providing a safe environment for journalists to operate in these new numbers of these now defunct media organizations really tell a quite different story. The taliban has also been accused of body Media Access to the punchy valley. Thats the area in the northeast of the country, which was the sight of an armed rebellion, which supposedly fell to the taliban just last week. There are also reports of taliban killing civilians in the area, but its very difficult to corroborate whats happening on the ground there. Right. Yes. And that is because the taliban has imposed a complete Communications Blackout jamming both Phone And Internet connections. Now they have also close the main axis wrote into this region, meaning that is extremely difficult to verify any reports of the killing of civilians. But even the taliban claimed that hes taking full control over the region. Now the thought about his justified this Communications Blackout by saying that it was needed to dissuade quote, those who wanted to turn punchier into a bit of sedition. Ok. So it might not be a habit of sedition, but its definitely a bit of misinformation now. Absolutely take, for example, this a grainy video that circulated on twitter. It was posted by a pro resistance movement account. And it shows heavy fighting and a mountainous area, allegedly, from recent battles in punch here. But it later emerged that that video was actually shot years ago, most likely in yemen. And the dissemination of these kind of fake videos definitely makes it a lot easier for the taliban to discredit any port than to make it out of the region. Including those of the killing of civilians. Now the taliban has told the international community to quote, take a closer look at the area to find out for themselves. That would be difficult because thats the Area Theyve closed off, right . Exactly. Okay, thanks Joe Statues are among the oldest forms of visually media for millennia. Theyve been used to send implicit messages about the kinds of people and values we should look up to quite literally. When people had icons down. Its most often in rejection of what they stanford and the 2020s. Its a tactic that the on trend since the killing of the african american George Floyd in may last year. Im P Basis on both sides of the atlantic have toppled hundreds of historical monuments from slave traders to european monarchs. But few protest groups have made as much of a tangible impact as columbia, as indigenous nice, a community at core players in anti government protests over the past year, Nissan Leaders and their allies have topic numerous statues of european colonizers. In doing so, they have ignited a debate about the Countrys History and the place of indigenous communities in it. The listening posts, daniel tutti now, on colombia, fallen statues, and the legacy theyre leaving behind. For much of the well deserted cities have been defining images of the pandemic era, but not in columbia 1000000 to fill the streets in successive waves of strife and protest. What began as a movement against you cannot make reforms as mushrooms into a matter pricing. Again, Inequality Corruption and police brutality. Protesters had targeted Status Quo itself. And some of its most foundational likely blurred rhetorical where we were in the document on the bottom that stopped last at 10. But demonstrators, from the digital, Nissan Community began knocking conquistadores spanish colonizers, off the pedestals. They handle stuff for young y o. So i got, the 1st of all was beyond the battle in the city he founded hope i assumed it was someone who dispossessed and annihilate our people. And we see him as a rapist in Mass Murderer and the land, the from the community decided to carry out this autonomous act of the colonization. Nobody met. Okay. The 1st thing i did when i saw the stuff falling was to run and hug a guy another community leader. Because there was a feeling of the register when we remembered the struggle of our ancestors and felt the conviction of being part of a historical jonathan law. Who is the case study guy. What columbia government called an act of vandalism, was merely a Warning Shot in april, protested in the city of cali, hold down the last remaining monument of dela cars a month later in the capital. Bobo, top me sak demonstrators performed a traditional burial for another Conquistador Gonzalo humanistic. A saw that the 2 men were among the mercenaries who lead the Spanish Conquest of the americans. They landed in the 16th century, conquered much of what is now columbia. And the slave dont massacre. Indigenous people who stood in their way off the columbia became independent in the 1900 century descendants of European Settlers remained in charge and they told their version of columbia as history in the statues they built. A visual medium that all colombians, literate or not, could understand so young as i have in columbia at the time this touches will me, were trying to build a nation. And we built that nation on the shoulders of the conquistadores and also our independence here. So the statues were about reaffirming us and its roots, reaffirming that the conquest was a valuable and praiseworthy and Devil Stop by yourself and be hourly man. Its meant to think almost these monuments also create an image of power that made of bronze and so imply authority. But that controversial because they symbolize the conquest and the genocide and the position of religion and the new political structures that came with it. So the statues represent severe repression for many social groups by the group of indigenous people have been at the forefront to columbia as protest movement, demanding the return of ancestral lands and justice. But the killing of community leaders, according to the un, 69 indigenous human rights defenders have been murdered in the past 5 years alone. Activate see these injustices as legacies of european domination. Legacy is embodied by colonial statues. But it was the black Lives Matter Movement to the united states. Protesters are carrying down and damaging memorial that 1st demonstrated the power of toppling monuments as an active protest. Lineup, ive seen that yes, as a nation of the african american, George Floyd, and all the reactions to it was a very important for us struggling up in america. Tedae america, latino included him in the important thing because just columbia is about to sign up for lab, struggle for territory. The struggle over oregon, demolishing the statute, symbols that re victor managed to fight for member its a formal colonial education will now for months, but i will here on the colonial convenience. I think its a continent wide movement, but in this country its also part of the new awakening among the socially excluded. Its about questioning symbols that represent the power of certain social, which is big, shag, toppling the symbols is powerful because it shows that there isnt just one version of history. There are many that are being altered with silence. Can see, oh, can you will see those yet . Los, this indian Privilege Premier Agent is colombians, a resentful defeat in the conquest and the fact that the dominant ideology, trying to cove a town squares across colombia and the world, thats what dominant ideologies do. The conquistadores where people are acting according to the ethical standard of their time. And we Cant Judge what they did, even though in some case it was horrible based on the standards today. But the euro centric version of the colonial past is the one that still dominates colombia as public spaces from statues to school textbooks to st. Names. Dissenting perspectives have long been confined to the fringes among indigenous colombians and on the political left. But the protest of the past year had amplified those voices, and the spectacle of falling monuments has forced the mainstream to pay attention. As media outlet cover, the pros and cons of the quest, the doors indigenous leaders to use the exposure to explain their motive. Ways Study Gum in the in my good im there much. I dont even know because the government is also change time consulting would meet our leaders and pledging to review to present that the monuments. But the protesters, whether indigenous or not fema convince in june, demonstrators in the city of barron kia, told down a statue of christopher columbus. The stunt could scarcely have been most involving or provocative. This is the figure because the very name of the country stems from his name and his involvement in the discovery of america. Even though we know that they were actually early a European Settlers on the american continent printing his people. He represents the conquest and colonization, and thats why weve seen columbus stat. Shes not down all over the world over the last few years in the 1500 for us. But can you or i can deny that he was a great marina who discovered than you would, and thats why such as a famous boot, just from a nautical standpoint to deserve the monument. The economy does sympathize with the mesa protests, but we believe that no one has the right to knock down whats already there because theyre part of our history. Part of who we are. Its that simple as he hasnt seen how dont know that if we hadnt taken that mean, if the government will not be doing any of that, whether it be reviewing the presence of statues or something, we citizens only about the government to keep and were asking all institutions to rethink how they operate and allow indigenous people to participate can just be instruments of doors and seems all that we are leaving people. People who are demanding Territory Demand Life chrissy, im story, apple. Lima, glassy, la monia. The toppling of colonial statues is triggered a debate about Colombia History and identity that is now playing out in the country public spaces. The Culture Ministry says it plans to replace the fallen monument. However, its latest move has been to take down other me, sack targets in the capital. In the meantime, protest as in kelly has put up a statue of their own, the monument to the resistance. Colombians are watching the spaces to see where the story of what columbia is goes from here. Were going back to a story from a kind of son now. For many african women, especially those in the big cities, the return of taliban rule has meant alien position of stringent limits and personal freedoms. Restrictions on what professions women can pursue, whether they can study and what they wear. The full body veil, known as the child are often blue or black in color, is what the taliban have mandated claiming it to be islamic dress. It has spurred protests by african women across the country, and theyve been joined online by a campaign with the hash tag. Do not touch my clothes. It was started by doctor behaviorally, an african historian, and it has triggered a flood of images from professional women, academics, journalists, both inside and outside the country, reading a range of colorful off concludes. Here are some of those images and tweet. Well see you next time here to the listening post. Ah, ah, ah, i there is a huge group of people at work behind the screen and the power they have is massive. That urge to keep swiping through your twitter feed design. The way we click, i agree to the terms and conditions thats designed, and most of us never even give it a 2nd. And actually, thats designed as Ali Riggs blue is how designers are manipulating behavior in the final episodes. All hail the algorithm on a just, you know, we understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the world. 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