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jeriafterdark · 3 years ago

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813 - The Reprise, Part 2/?

Part One here

Part three here

Masterpost for all parts

A lot has gone down since my last post, I'll try to summarize it all here.

To recap, previously on the Reprise, Part 1: Uncle Li stepped in to stand up for ZZH and c-ent as a whole against CAPA and other shadowy so-called authorities that are trying to manipulate public opinion behind the scenes for their own profit. Weibo kept muting and unmuting his posts, so it got to the point where he threatened to sue CAPA (because he believes Weibo is not responsible for threatening his content) with ZZH to get them to apologize to ZZH and reduce their power and influence over c-ent.

----new update below----

So as of my last post, Uncle Li has been busy at work dealing with CAPA + in contact with ZZH’s family.

Don't worry, he knows what he's doing.

All this information is compiled from tireless hard work of this user, this user, and other users which will be cited below.

November 25-27, 2021

1. A twitter user posted (in Thai) about Uncle Li’s background

I don’t speak or read Thai, but the gist of what I got was: he’s a famous director near retirement age who is part of a lot of long-standing organizations in media and has connections with the military. He also has a history of investigative journalism and has demonstrated staunch support for his country.

2. This article from whatsonweibo.com is following the story and posted an update for what’s happened Nov 25-26

3. ZZH and Uncle Li join forces - He gives a voice to ZZH’s family’s struggles

Uncle Li mentioned that he is now in contact with ZZH’s family, and they are both cooperating it seems? He posts some revelations about what’s happened since 813, and it’s really heartbreaking

His mother has been a staunch ally to China’s political party, so being accused of being traitors was awful. People sent Japanese wreaths to his family, harassing him, calling him and his fam traitors, etc.

TW : suicide - his mother apparently thought about hurting herself seriously due to all the accusations? It’s just awful… he and his family have been harassed immensely since August.

Uncle Li goes on to say that even if anyone, ZZH or his fam or anyone else, are deemed traitors, they must be given a chance to deny these claims and prove themselves. Mistakes happen all the time, and people need to be given chances to rectify those mistakes. Deplatforming and silencing ZZH and his family doesn’t make any sense, and will only hurt their society as a whole.

Video of ZZH and his Ma, he really loves her

The people who stood by ZZH’s side despite all of these threats, harassment, potential blacklisting… they’re really special. The kind of people you’d want to meet even just once in your lives. (Yes I’m implying JunZhe, but also his friends Susu and Xiao Yu, his family, the people who never deleted him from their histories including Sun Xilun (Chengling)).

4. Uncle Li’s videos and weibo posts keep getting muted/unmuted + users who interact with him are getting shadow banned

SO he’s been very active in dismantling CAPA’s perceived narrative that they’re a legitimate organization. Weibo, however, has been randomly muting and unmuting his videos, it looks like programmers are fighting each other to mute and unmute constantly. He emphasizes that he believes Weibo’s execs aren’t behind this, and it’s probably the shady venture people (rich ppl with power) behind the scenes that are trying to silence him and his followers.

He and his team of lawyers are taking tips from netizens + doing their own extensive background research on ZZH’s case and the shadiness of the business dealings behind CAPA. He’s posting very frequently just ROASTING THEM SOME MORE. Some examples are their utter lack of justification for boycotting ZZH because they said their rules for punishing people who act out of line are NOT retroactive. Then why did they punish ZZH when his incident happened in like 2018? Doesn’t make sense. (All of these pieces of evidence have been revealed already btw by many discerning fans. I’ve linked a PDF guide on ZZH’s case created by the wonderful twitter user mentioned above)

Some insiders from CAPA itself are helping Uncle Li build his case. They’ve given him some confidential documents - there’s apparently quite a bit of infighting within the organization itself, which IMO is JUST DESSERTS.

5. CAPA’s official weibo page turned off commenting

I wonder WHY. They haven’t actually come out to make any statements regarding Uncle Li’s accusations, from what I’ve seen

CAPA also scrubbed their list of leadership from their website, I’m assuming because they’re genuinely concerned now that the tide of public opinion is backing Uncle Li’s claims

6. Weibo Admin warns Uncle Li indirectly

Uncle Li is stepping on a lot of toes. From what I’ve seen so far, there’s a lot of nefarious groups acting in concert with each other. Weibo + CAPA + ventures business ppl are working in tandem to try and intimidate Uncle Li. Weibo itself posted a warning to not provoke government agencies nor should you try to “whitewash immoral celebrities” (i’m assuming they mean ZZH), or else the platform will mute you

Uncle Li posted about the conflict of interest with Weibo CEO Wang Gaofei. He’s not only part of the Weibo admin but also the vice chair of CAPA’s livestreaming subcommittee.

It’s also randomly deleting and muting people who are interacting with Uncle Li’s posts, so if you have Weibo and are interacting with his posts, please do it rationally so none of it can be used against you, him, or ZZH. And know that it’s possible the platform will ban you for it :x

7. People’s Communication (Part of the government news agency People’s Daily) published an article questioning the validity of CAPA’s boycott ability - check here for the really long screenshot of their article (in Mandarin)

8. Uncle Li’s absolute sass

A ZZH anti accused Uncle Li of crossing the political, national, and moral line by pursuing this quest, and he just sasses them as any old man would: try harder kid, his lawyers are putting in overtime

CAPA is taking down their list of leaders, so Uncle Li joked something to the tune of, Not only are they taking down people’s works, but they’re taking down their own leaders - the “takedown” term is the same as when ppl take down or take off works from platforms.

Uncle Li says that if you find his words to be untrue, go ahead and sue him, and if he’s found wrong, he will pay reparations and apologize. He’s so confident of his position (as he should be) that he’s not afraid to get sued by all the shady money dealers.

Uncle Li made a whole post about how CAPA is privately trying to intimidate him, but he stands strong because he believes in what he views is a more just and equal society. He truly believes that this entire struggle will benefit not only CAPA itself, but how entertainment business should be conducted with fairness. He even CALLS OUT the people behind the scenes for “attempting to launch an online campaign against me. That’s very shameless of you. It is also very scheming. You’ve underestimated the power of a just society and underestimated the power of the law. You’ve also given yourself too much credit and you’re being myopic about the success of a day’s victory. It’s true many big verified accounts (on weibo) are keeping silent. I very much understand where they’re coming from. Some of them don’t understand the internal workings of this industry, and some are just observing before taking sides. Many netizens urged me to contact the media myself. That’s not something I want to do currently. [OP note, they instead contacted HIM for interviews]. [...] I understand and don’t blame verified accounts for not supporting me publicly and I also don’t want all the media scrutiny to be on our industry.”

3. He goes on to mention that CAPA’s livestreaming committee has someone who is a VP of a pay-to-chat app and was found to be morally questionable. So it’s ironic that these are the people who are passing judgment as to who gets to be moral and who gets to be immoral

4. He says he will take all the legal responsibility and stand until the end.

What a champion, our Li, our Ye Baiyi, I’m just very concerned for him, I hope no one will try to do anything to him.

9. Uncle Li creates hashtag - “Justice for the people”[人民的公义] & others start speaking ZZH’s name and supporting Li

A film investor posted about how horrific cyberbullying is and dozens of reporters from mainstream media outlets have asked Uncle Li to give interviews.

Weibo refuses to allow his hashtag, “Justice for the people” trend to the top10 hot list even though right now it’s at 160 MILLION views + so many interactions. If you’re over 50million views you’re already on the top trending list. So???? Weibo??? Don’t make it look that obvious that you’re in on it ok?

HaoJingFang, the author who supported ZZH and GJ before, posted a cryptic weibo translated by this user:

The Long Night, she indicated it's the best film she has seen this year. An innocent man was killed by officials and businessmen, and all witnesses and those who investigated were dead one by one. Finally, it is the prosecutor Jiang Yang and his friends who stick to the end with their own lives, seek the truth and defend justice.

This is hinting at her knowledge and support of ZZH and what happened during the 813 incident - ZZH was also socially "killed" by officials and businessmen, and everyone who tried to stand up for him only made things worse or also got deplatformed (one guy i think tried to question if visiting the shrine at all is a bad thing? and got insta banned). Finally, Uncle Li swooped in to save the day. We'll see how this story ends, no one could possibly write a script like this lol.

10. Uncle Li meeting with official agency leaders on Monday - he will review his materials that he’s gathered with his lawyers with them.

Things are getting very serious, and people are watching and listening. Finally. I'm just so happy that people are FINALLY SAYING HIS NAME. Zhang Zhehan, I'm sorry, what they did to you and the people you love. Not everyone's hands are clean either. The public who quickly jumped on the bandwagon are also at fault. The antis. The water armies. I want this to be a happy ending, even if he decides to not return, I can see that it's a cesspool of special interests who are just using people like him as pawns in their quest for more and more profit, or more and more power. I hope Uncle Li can help.

My thoughts so far, TLDR:

So it looks like Uncle Li is successfully escalating all of the relevant issues up the command chain to even official agencies. I'm glad he's still keeping ZZH as part of the case. Some people accuse him of only using ZZH as a pawn in his greater quest to regulate CAPA and the other shady players industry. However, they gotta keep in mind that legal cases against powerful organizations or engrained ideas and structures need a solid case to represent your goal. And ZZH's is perfect, he did nothing illegal, but suffered massive repercussions due to a corrupt system. And it's easily provable in court.

Forgive me if my comparisons are inaccurate as I am unfamiliar with the court system in China, but as someone in the US, I can liken this to cases such as the landmark case Brown v Board of Education, where the NAACP chose the perfect candidates to argue that the doctrine "separate but equal" is truly unequal. They crafted their case before the Supreme court with Oliver Brown, a local father who wanted his daughter to go to the closest school available instead of having to walk 6 blocks to a bus stop to ride to a school for PoC far away. They specifically chose him to helm the case because he was a male + working father + solid case for his children's education, and knew these points would stand up in court. This ended up with the Supreme Court ruling to desegregate schools, a landmark ruling.

I'm assuming Uncle Li is trying to do something similar by combining his power with ZZH's case, and trying to get a ruling for not only ZZH, but for the c-ent industry as a whole. He firmly believes that he's doing the right thing, and I hope that he won't be harmed in this endeavor. It's truly what we all wanted, someone with power, someone uninvolved, to stand up with ZZH, SAY HIS NAME, and give him his voice back. Fingers crossed.