Probably because they are not worried that these fringe ideologies will ever become relevant, given that they are largely disconnected from the lived reality of people in China. Ideologies tend to find fertile ground when they are rooted in existing material conditions. When they lack that, they don’t usually penetrate into the broader masses. These aren’t political mass movements or dangerous cults like Falun Gong, it’s pseudo-intellectual nerd shit, appealing only to a small minority of people who are very into politics and philosophy.
Also, banning them could have the opposite effect of increasing their popularity by turning them into something “forbidden” and therefore tempting. People tend to want that which they cannot have, and assume that the fact that it is denied to them indicates that it is something desirable and good.
Probably because they are not worried that these fringe ideologies will ever become relevant, given that they are largely disconnected from the lived reality of people in China. Ideologies tend to find fertile ground when they are rooted in existing material conditions. When they lack that, they don’t usually penetrate into the broader masses. These aren’t political mass movements or dangerous cults like Falun Gong, it’s pseudo-intellectual nerd shit, appealing only to a small minority of people who are very into politics and philosophy.
Also, banning them could have the opposite effect of increasing their popularity by turning them into something “forbidden” and therefore tempting. People tend to want that which they cannot have, and assume that the fact that it is denied to them indicates that it is something desirable and good.