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China Bans Orwell's Animal Farm and the Letter 'N'

posted by janrinok on Monday March 05 2018, @09:09PM   Printer-friendly
from the chi_a-does-what? dept.

DeathMonkey writes:

The Chinese government has banned George Orwell's dystopian satirical novella Animal Farm and the letter 'N' in a wide-ranging online censorship crackdown.

Experts believe the increased levels of suppression - which come just days after the Chinese Communist Party announced presidential term limits would be abolished - are a sign Xi Jinping hopes to become a dictator for life.

The China Digital Times, a California-based site covering China, reports a list of terms excised from Chinese websites by government censors includes the letter 'N', Orwell's novels Animal Farm and 1984, and the phrase 'Xi Zedong'.

The latter is a combination of President Xi and former chairman Mao Zedong's names.

[...] It was not immediately obvious why the ostensibly harmless letter 'N' had been banned, but some speculated it may either be being used or interpreted as a sign of dissent.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-animal-farm-ban-censorship-george-orwell-xi-jinping-power-letter-n-a8235071.html

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 06 2018, @02:18AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 06 2018, @02:18AM (#648309)

    So the place will hereafter be called Chia? Would he get it if he was mailed a Chia Pet?

    Chia Pet! Updated with fewer bad letters!

    Hey JiPig: Go ahead, take a letter away from me. I'LL STILL MOCK YOU! *blows raspberry* E-grish motherfucker, do you speak it? Yes, E-grish! Like E-mail, but without that bad letter.

    This post disrespectfully brought to JiPig without the use of that bad letter.

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  • (Score: 2) by Joe Desertrat on Tuesday March 06 2018, @11:22PM

    by Joe Desertrat (2454) on Tuesday March 06 2018, @11:22PM (#648776)

    So the place will hereafter be called Chia?

    I immediately wondered that. What do we call the Chinese as a whole now? Chias? Chiese?