Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin passed away yesterday. Some netizens broke the news that the local government banned comedy shows in movie theaters.

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[Instant News/Comprehensive Report] Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin passed away yesterday. Chinese officials expressed their condolences in various ways. Twitter "Ms. Li is not your teacher" broke the news. Broadcasting comedies, imported films, and rebroadcasting the World Cup made netizens irony, "So many people died in Urumqi, it's not banned", "Jiang's love of watching movies is so ironic" and so on.

The Twitter post "Ms. Li is not your teacher" also mentioned that movie theaters in the area are required to be "serious and solemn," and even the LED screens outside the movie theaters have to be turned off.

Some netizens also posted a suspected "Internet Audio-Visual Department of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television" requiring all online platforms to be "grand, solemn, affectionate and orderly" during the mourning period. black and white".

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Netizens on Twitter responded, "So many people died in Urumqi, why not ban one now?", "It's against the law to even mourn when someone dies, and you have to mourn when someone dies," "Jiang Zemin's era didn't So serious", "It's ironic that Jiang liked to watch movies before he was alive", "Jiang Zemin liked to watch imported movies the most".

On Weibo yesterday, a netizen posted a message thanking Jiang Zemin, "Good journey, thank you for letting everyone watch "Titanic"." The post received 24,000 shares and 69,000 likes.

Netizens lamented, "This is not what it used to be", "Look at the present, look at the past", etc.

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