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Acceptable Protest: The 2019 workplace meme that’s thriving on China’s internet

Posted on by Jason Li
Photo of a booklet of China's labor laws taped onto the glassdoor of Ant Financial
Anonymous selfie of person giving Ant Financial/Alibaba a booklet of China’s labor laws. Source: 996action GitHub repo.

Internet memes about social issues have a spotty history on China’s internet, where netizens have had to evade, obfuscate and mask their posts in an evolving game of censorship cat and mouse. This was the case with the infamous…

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