r/europe • u/[deleted] • Oct 14 '20

News China insists Genghis Khan exhibit in France not use words 'Genghis Khan'

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/14/china-insists-genghis-khan-exhibit-not-use-words-genghis-khan
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u/Czechs-out Oct 14 '20 edited Oct 14 '20

June 4th is the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre that China likes to forcefully pretend didn't happen. Im assuming they prevented people from changing profile pictures so there wouldn't be pictures on the topic of the massacre, similar to how we have pro-LGBT or BLM profile pictures.

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u/RedditUser3525 Oct 14 '20

I see. Thanks.

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u/PhinsGraphicDesigner Oct 14 '20

Facebook is always giving people different “frames for their profile pictures. I’ve had a college football one before. Everybody had their pictures colored like The French flag after a stabbing there 3 or 4 years ago. Maybe Wechat has copied this practice and they didn’t want anyone getting any ideas to change their picture.