On March 31, the famous Chinese website Netease
took the opportunity of April Fool's Day
to poke fun at Chinese Communist Party (CCP),
which was embraced by netizens.
The page was soon taken down by the CCP. .
In its first issue, Netease posted,"Happy Times"
a news story on the Mayan prophecy about 2012,
where Chinese people would be immune to disasters.
As the news joked, the reason for their immunity
was the long-term exposure to toxic products
like the "Black Heart Quilt", melamine-tainted milk,
"Sudan red", dichlorvos hams, methanol white wine,
formaldehyde beer, and dioxane shampoo.
Add traditional medicine and the Book of Changes,
and they have evolved into a transcendental species.
The inaugural issue had 8 parts including society,
livelihood, diverse happenings, sports and culture.
Under "society", it said houses were so frail and cheap
that citizens put up banners requesting demolition.
In "diverse happenings", "Made in China" waves
swept globally, and high in body iodine citizens
of China were in no fear of nuclear radiation.
The Netease's "Happy Times" first issue jokes
on the CCP concurred immediately with netizens,
who acclaimed that Netease did a great job
exposing China's social darkness.
However, these jokes did not sit well with the CCP
and the page vanished a few hours after its launch.
Netizens were concerned that the editor of Netease
would be invited by the police for a "tea."
Zan Aizong, independent commentator:
"What Netease did was popular, but it was deleted,
indicating the effect of the CCP behind the scene.
You can shut down a page, but you can't shut mouths.
Maybe only 100 people saw it, but news of it's
deletion may spread to 500 or 1000 people.
They attract more attention by deleting."
Around April Fool's Day, many people in China
talk about "fool stories" on the Internet.
In the article "We folks live a fool's day everyday",
the author wrote: "Salt rush, fake drugs, tainted milk
powder, Clenbuterol lean pork... for goodness' sake,
aren't these our gifts for the Fool's Day?"
He continued: "In China, everyday is fool's day;
the items to fool people change on a daily basis .
The role of Chinese people is to be forever fooled."
China Youth Daily published an article on April 1,
"CCP shouldn't force citizens to lead a fool's life."
Commentator Cao Lin said, that it is common for
the authorities to fool people, it is institutional.
Cao wrote that after a scandal is exposed, authorities'
explanations are as ridiculous as April Fool's deeds.
He said, in media reports these explanations
are presented as accidents due to technical issues,
or as subordinates being at fault.
The innocent superiors don't know what's going on.
Cao said that since the CCP monopolizes the press,
the resources and the right for interpretation,
they can say what they want, daring to fool people.
CCP consistently hides news on natural disasters
and accidents for so-called reasons of
avoiding social unrests and "maintaining stability".
Cao argued that it is the regime's concealment
which causes chaos, not "stupid people".
It's the ruling party who tries to cover up.
On the issue of democracy, Cao stated that the CCP
refuses democracy on the grounds of low literacy
in China. Just one example of its fooling of citizens.
Cao said that he is very unhappy of CCP's effords
to make them live April Fool's Day everyday.
In one microblog, a survey was carried out
on 13 April Fool's items, asking readers to guess
what is going to happen: housing prices downfall,
salary raises, tax reduction, health care improvement,
food safety, nuclear power security,
wealth gap narrowing, etc. At the end, the author said
that all of the above are just April Fool's jokes.
NTD reporters Li Jing and Xue Li.
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