Showing posts with label censorship. Show all posts
Showing posts with label censorship. Show all posts

Saturday, 27 February 2021

10 Chinese code words to avoid censorship (part 2)

Unlike in Western countries **shifty eyes**, censorship in China is rampant, with the Chinese regime removing anything and everything from the internet if they think it might be even a tiny bit critical of their authoritarian actions.

This week the Charles Fudgemuffin blog takes a look at c*de words
used to beat c***orship by the authoritarian Chinese gove***ent.
So to fight back, clever Chinese people have created an ever growing list of code words and phrases to get around the censorship. Here are a few more examples...

1) Sensitive porcelain = Censored words


In a move worthy of a scene from the movie Inception, even the phrase 'censored words' is censored by the Chinese regime! So to get around the censorship, Chinese internet users refer to censored words as 'sensitive porcelain'.

It may at first seem like a strange term, but the reason for this coded phrase is that the Chinese words for 'words' and 'porcelain' are homophones, i.e. they are pronounced the same, but they are written with different kanji symbols.

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