Tyrannies are not great hot beds of the giggles. Sure there were those in the dictatorships of, say, South American junta, Nazi Germany and South Africa under apartheid who got the best seats and access to champaign but overall they were not really known as fun houses. That is the problem facing China and the internet these days - people are forgetting that they are living under oppression. That may not the case for long:

...the rise of fast-growing companies like Tencent is also worrying the Chinese government, which strictly regulates the Internet and is wary of the Web’s ability to mobilize huge online political communities or perhaps to nurture underground economies. A few weeks ago, China’s Central Bank — which oversees the country’s $2.6 trillion economy — even went so far as to issue a warning about Tencent’s virtual currency, Q-coins, which allow customers to shop online for games, music and even virtual furniture. A Central Bank official said the agency was studying whether Tencent’s online tokens were a threat to China’s currency, the yuan or renminbi. He also said the authorities would crack down on the coins if they were used to engage in money laundering.