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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.
(Score: 2) by Osamabobama on Tuesday March 06 2018, @05:35PM (1 child)
Whose task is it, exactly?
Appended to the end of comments you post. Max: 120 chars.
(Score: 1) by pTamok on Tuesday March 06 2018, @09:12PM
Well spotted. I was trying to avoid the word ceNsor. Obviously iNdividual doesn't work, and my brain failed to see the final N in persoN. I should have recast it as something like "The overseer, whose task it is to edit text..."
I am even further cowed by Ernest Vincent Wright's [wikipedia.org] achievement.