China Badminton Open post sensationalizes the entire internet
Source: backchina.com
The Chinese social software “Little Red Book” was legally banned for one year at the beginning of the month because it refused to break the Taiwan police’s anti-fraud policy. The Chinese government attacked the Taiwanese government with rhetoric such as “digital martial law” and “suppressing freedom of speech,” but ignored its own citizens’ petitions to release a “sensitive lexicon for literary inquisition.” Recently, the official Weibo account of the organizer of the China Badminton Open suddenly published a list of “live broadcast sensitive words”, which immediately caused a sensation in all walks of life.
The X account “Teacher Li is not your teacher” shared a screenshot on December 29. The official account of the “Tianwang Cup Badminton Open” on China Weibo published an article with incredible content yesterday evening (28th). Not only did the article not introduce the name of the game, players and other information at all, it even contained more than 30 words and sentences. At the end of the article, a live link to the ongoing game was attached.
Some Chinese netizens pointed out that the Weibo editor whose words appeared to be those of the organizer mistakenly mistook the “sensitive word filter list” in the live broadcast room of the competition as copywriting and published it directly. These lists contained many offensive and highly targeted words and phrases, including “spam”. “trash”, “retirement”, “stain”, “favorite”, “scumbag”, “promiscuous”, “buttocks”, “touching buttocks”, “celebrities with bad deeds”, “bad personal ethics”, “public figures with bad deeds”, “the Internet has no memory”, etc.
Not only that, nearly half of this list is related to the 42-year-old former Chinese national badminton player “Super Dan”Lin DanMost of them refer to the fact that in 2016, he took advantage of the fact that his mother-in-law Xie Xingfang, who is also a national badminton player, had an affair with Chinese busty female model Zhao Yaqi while she was pregnant. This affair also caused a sensation in the Chinese entertainment industry and sports circles that year. It is reported that Lin Dan was invited to attend the 2025 Tianwang Cup Badminton Open last weekend and also played an exhibition match with his former teammates at the scene.
After the article was published, it caused an uproar on major social media in China. The organizers of the competition quickly deleted the article and the account afterwards, trying to deal with the matter coldly. However, Chinese netizens took screenshots and posted the article, and then moved it over the wall to foreign communities for discussion. When foreign netizens saw this, they all ridiculed that this string of “sensitive words” had the same status as China’s Xi Jinping (special topic) and the Zhao family, because their names are well known and cannot be mentioned or insulted by ordinary people on any Chinese social media.
Netizens also complained about “Xi bans commenting”, “live performance of real-life bugs”, “why is this so?”, “sense of information streaking”, “the most precious historical textbook in 2025”, “there can’t be so few real blocking words”, ” “I didn’t know it before, but now I know it all.” “In a few years, all Chinese characters in China will become banned words.” “Sensitive words such as captain and airplane are blocked. It’s amazing. In the future, it will become harder and harder to speak normally in a walled country.”
(X screenshot)
