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new because you mentioned when you, when you go to the crackdowns, we're seeing plain into an obvious restructuring of both social and home life. hello. i mean actually the, the, and you're at the listening post. this is where we, the sect, the way the media work, what gets covered and why it's covered that we hear the story is we're 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 country's history is. remember, media shut downs and misinformation. a month of taliban rule is leaving. it's mark on of kind of sounds, news, industry. and the taliban has been dictating terms on what african women can wear, triggering some serious pushback online. do not touch my clothes, shows off countrymen 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, it's become clear that season things china has embarked on a campaign that could transform the country's tech, entertainment and media industries. much of the parties current focus has been on regulating china's 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, modern 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. i starting point this week is the cult of celebrity in china

the thinking like, you know, you took him to some point blank pump. he's a good evening. she couldn't do without him to get those weight out. hopefully the show was this story almost reads like the screenplay for the t. v. drama. except that it is in fact very soon, and it's playing out across china. on one side, you have some of the countries most popular young celebrity actors, musicians, online influences with fan followings in the hundreds of millions on the other side, a serious sect of policy make good men in sooth looking to instill some discipline and propriety on an industry that many would have thought too frivolous to attract

much of age in detention 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, the regulation targeting celebrities, our church and, and payment media, i'm not exactly frivolous because there are political implications and payments media and celebrity dowager. we're 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 you know, how they dress, how they sort of conduct themselves. it's interesting, it's not just the conduct of celebrity themselves and craft 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, it's in a language in india, and that frightens people who like order and control like the chinese come his party. the 2021 had been a momentous year for the chinese communist party. the ccp in july, if markets intensity at the home and 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 phase of china's development. in the chem shantee that mean she dos conway mean. jim flew 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 wealth gap in the country, the furtive move, but the party, i'm the president seem confident now is there time shooting pin has banks, a lot of not just regime supports, but political capital that is in part or result of china's relatively good handling of the crew virus up 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, it's increasing involvement in the economy of the state. we have seen for some time that she's 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 ah, who has been accused of sexually assaulting some of his fans. rate accusations against a pop star has pushed china's 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 wasn't the 1st time overzealous times had created headlines in china. i think one of which you thought you would, should have gotten to the challenging was a competitive fandom drive online engagement and revenue for many of the agencies, for brands and studios that back china top celebrities. however, it led to newness instances of obsessive stocking persist in trolling, as well as uncheck spending by young fans on products. dad. idols endorse the keyboard shop until blank down to the door, yakking dash bunk champs. and how to keep g to junction band fat. at the

same time as all this have been a dizzying idea of new regulations, but china's online space. they affect thousands of businesses from taxi healing companies like dd to multimedia and kick conglomerates like 10 percent and social media behemoths like bite dance, that only app picked up on the regulators radar. our data privacy, tech monopolies, and predictive algorithms. ah, so they are actually issues that western government and the regulators wrapping with facing the astronomical growth digital platforms. these are companies that are really abusing their take our because they have grown into. ready 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 it's a thing that a lot of people in china say it's long overdue, quoted from a concern to customers, which i don't think was entirely fine by any means. i think there's also plenty wedge, their sense that these companies are getting away with this because they think they're 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. is this the 2nd, the cultural revolution? comparisons with mouth cultural revolution back in the late 1900 sixties and seventies have abounded. but there's been off the mark. so there's a lot of people make comparison between what's 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 an 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 ization of young people from it's 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 communist party. me this week mark a month of taliban roland, of kind of stun. and it's becoming increasingly clear what the take over means. for the countries media to hannah, who have been following developments jewel, what's the latest? well, earlier this week, colo news, which is of kind of stands most widely watched 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. natal, yvonne has repeatedly claimed that is committed to providing a safe environment for journalists to operate in. but 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 punch sheet valley. that's 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 the taliban killing civilians in the area, but it's very difficult to corroborate what's 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. not . they have also close the main access road into this region,

meaning that is extremely difficult to verify any reports of the killing of civilians. but even the telephone claim that has taken full control over the region . now the taliban is 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 it's definitely a hot bed of misinformation. now actually 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 report 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 that's the idea. they've closed off, right? exactly. okay, thanks joe statues are among the oldest forms of visually media for millennia. they've been used to send implicit messages about the kinds of people and values we should look up to quite literally. when people ted icons down. it's most often in rejection of what they stand for and the 2020s. it's a tactic that the on trend since the killing of the african american george floyd in may last year. i'm t 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 country's history and the place of indigenous communities in it . the listening posts, daniel tutti now on columbia fallen statues, and the legacy they're 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 economic reforms as mushroom, into a matter pricing. again, inequality corruption and police brutality. protesters had targeted the status quo itself, and some of its most foundational likely owners, like barely while i'm on the bottom that stopped last at 10. but the demonstrators from the digital mesa community began

knocking conquistadores spanish colonizers, off the pedestals. stuff by young, i don't know what the 1st of all was beyond the better cause in the city he founded popped up in the assumed it was someone who dispossessed and annihilated our people. and we see him as a repeat enough murderer and the land, the community decided to carry out. this was done most of the colonization, nobody met. okay. first thing i did when i saw the statue calling was to run and hug a guy another community leader. because there was a feeling of the register, why don't we remember the struggle of our ancestors and felt the conviction of being part of a historical jonathan law, who's the case study guy. what columbia government called an act as 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 perform the traditional burial for another conquistadores . 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 don't 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, we're trying to build a nation. and we build that nation on the shoulders of the conquistadores and also our independence here. so the statues were about reaffirming us and his roots were

reaffirming that the conquest was a valuable and praiseworthy endeavour. and i have thought by yourself and be hourly municipal, monumental musket. these monuments also create an image of power because they're made of bronze and so imply authority. but they're controversial because they symbolized the conquest and the genocide and the imposition of religion and the new political structures that came with it. so the statues represent severe repression for many social groups by the group associate. indigenous people have been at the forefront to columbia as protest movement, demanding the return of ancestral lands and justice for the killing of community leaders. according to the un, 69 indigenous human rights defenders have been murdered in the past 5 years alone. to see these injustices as legacies of european domination, legacies embodied by colonial statues. but it was the black lives matter movement

to the united states. protesters are tearing down and damaging memorial that 1st demonstrated the power of toppling monuments as an active protest, millennial by last seen that they love. yes, nation of the african american, george floyd, and all the reactions to it was a very important for us struggling up in america. tell you america latino. they include him in the morning. important things because indigenous movement in columbia is about to hang up or struggle for territory. the struggle over demolishing the statute symbols that re victory money to fight for memory. it's a form of colonial education. now florida must be paid. i will here on the colonial team and it's a continent wide movement. but in this country, it's also part of the new awakening among the social excluded. it's about

questioning symbols that represent the power of certain social, which isn't being shag, toppling the symbols is powerful because it shows that there isn't just one version of history. there are many that been altered. silence can feel that we can still see the loss. this indian through the low premier, who thank you, digital colombians, a resentful defeat in the conquest and the fact that the dominant ideology going to cover towns, squares across colombia and the world. that's what dominant ideology is due. the conquistadores where people acting according to the ethical standard of their time . and we can't judge what they did, even though in some cases it was horrible based on the standards today, or the euro centric version of the colonial past. the one that still dominate colombia public spaces from statues to school text books to street 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 as for the mainstream to pay attention. as media outlet cover, the pros and cons of the conquest, the doors indigenous leaders to use the exposure to explain their motive ways. dodie gum in the in my get on their much i don't even know the whole the government has also changed consulting with me. sack leaders pledging to review the presence of such monuments. but the protesters, whether indigenous or not, fema bits in june demonstrates in the city of baron kia, told down a statue of christopher columbus. this done could scarcely have been most symbolic 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 that's why we've seen columbus stat. she's knocked down all over the world over the last few years on 100 us. but you run like come tonight as he was a great minor who discovered the new word. and that's why such as a female, a bit 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 what's already there because they're part of our history. part of who we are. it's that simple as he hasn't seen her, then. if we hadn't taken me, the government would not be doing anything about it, whether it be reviewing the presence of statues or something, we citizens only about the government. we're asking all institutions to rethink

how they operate and allow indigenous people to participate can just be instruments . of doors and seems that we are leaving people, people who are demand territory, demanding chrissy stories for lima glasses. marty and the toppling of colonial statues has triggered a debate about columbia history and identity that is now playing out in the country . public spaces, the culture ministry says it plans to replace the fallen monuments. however, its latest move has been to take down other nice act targets in the capital. in the meantime, protest as in kelly has puts up a statue of their own, the monument to the resistance colombians and watching these spaces to see where the story of what columbia is goes from here.

we're going back to a story from a canister. now, for many off con women, especially those in the big cities, the return of taliban rule has meant alien position of stringent limits on personal freedoms, restrictions on what professions women can pursue, whether they can study and what the, where the full body vale known as the cha, doors, 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 they've 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 is 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. we'll see you next time here to the listening post. ah,

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