A plane crashed into tallest skyscraper in Beijing.Hours later,all news scrubbed

https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/27/china/beijing-plane-crash-citic-tower-censorship-china-intl-hnk

by Markoff • 25 days ago

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Markoff2• 25 days ago

Title is editorialized to meet HN length limit, full title: A small plane slammed into the tallest skyscraper in China’s capital. Hours later, it was like nothing had happened.

pbak• 25 days ago

Still... interesting how in talking about the crash 80% of CNN's article is to mention the censorship, as was your own focus, and not the event itself and what is known about it.

NOTHING about the event about which there is a lot of data available.

Yeah WE KNOW THEY CENSOR, CHINA BAD.

It's not even some red scare anymore.

It's like we collectively need the repeated constant mention of "china bad", like some sort of mental pacifier, to not see everything wrong and just as bad in censorship in the west (UK, Germany, sometime the US), or more broadly everything which is going to shit here but is soaring and going well in Asia.

Mental infantilisation to the extreme, to keep our inner frightened and traumatized children in control. Thank you for helping that effort soldier.

Markoff2• 24 days ago

because they have other article about the event itself, if you bothered to check, this article is about news about this scrubbed from Chinese internet

gnabgib• 25 days ago

And yet:

CNN (2 points, 2 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48687267

DailyMail (12 points, 1 day ago, 5 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48691375

WaPo (3 points, 1 second ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48691738

BBC (5 points, 21 hours ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48695798

YouTube-eh (4 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48696289

this copy CNN-repub (5 points, 15 hours ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48697965

lerp-io• 24 days ago

no video, never happened

gabrielsroka• 24 days ago

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A plane crashed into tallest skyscraper in Beijing.Hours later,all news scrubbed

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