Cup of Cha
This is China

I get how gay marriage is a threat to democracy. That makes sense. Men being monogamous with other men. Women devoting themselves to another woman. I get it. That could really ruin a great country.

But surely Twitter couldn’t ruin a good autocracy, right? Those annoying one sentence blasts that usually link to something more interesting (or not). Surely that can’t threaten the Chinese way of life, right? Or not.

Apparently, fearing that people could express ideas that could undermine the stability of China in under 140 characters, the country has blocked Twitter. (Incidentally, that last sentence was too long to tweet.) In a painful irony, Cup of Cha had only recently figured out the wonders of such an idiotic service (mostly that I could put much less time into maintaining an online identity that has thus far yielded me little more than the unexpected wrath of Celine Dion fans). That’s right, it was on this past Sunday that I launched the glorious Tweet of Cha. And I had spent most of my time reading hilarious DPRK tweets (long story short: they’re real press releases but someone else is posting them).

In another irony, the last blog post that I wrote (and didn’t publish) was about how ridiculous it is that China seems concerned that YouTube will tear the country down. I now feel compelled to post it and backdate it. Not sure why I have to backdate it, but dagnabit, I will.

I was going to write a bunch more about how China should want people to waste their time doing stupid crap, but I already did in my previously unpublished post.

Nothing like a really dumb policy to get me back on the Cup.

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