Who is afraid of the "Crazy Crab"?

One satirist that I have truly come to admire while researching different forms and shapes of satire in the world is the Chinese cartoonist and micro-blogger "Crazy Crab". As most of you probably already know, micro-blogging has had a huge boom in China over the past few years, mainly due to that it has become one of the few ways in which Chinese people can (relatively safely, unless the regime finds out which blog belongs to who) criticize the Chinese regime. It is an excellent example of what I have been discussing earlier on this blog, namely that satire provides seemingly “powerless” people with a tool to use against “powerful” people. Micro-bloggers really do pose a threat to the Chinese regime, at least in the regime’s own eyes. This can be supported by the fact that the Chinese characters for “Crazy Crab” have been banned on Chinese Google and other search engines. In the picture below Crazy Crab satirizes this by letting Mao Zedong symbolize the Communist party and a computer mouse symbolize micro-bloggers. “Who is afraid of the mouse?”