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

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: 2) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday March 06 2018, @07:11PM

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Tuesday March 06 2018, @07:11PM (#648616) Journal

    Funny how we have banned a certain "N" word for awhile now.

    Oh thank god! That means they finally shipped Ethanol Fueled off to the gulag, right?

    Oh wait....no they didn't... because you're engaging in the fallacy of false equivalency.

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