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>the amateur self-appointed censors couldn't actually be bothered to figure out what disqualification criteria would be

...as opposed to professional government-appointed censors?



Good point. Besides, there is no detailed guidebook on censorship in China. Every organization (media, social media) has to guess what the gov wants to censor. As a result, every organization tends to overdo it. Because 1). you never know if you miss one target that should be censored and 2). What is OK today might not be OK tomorrow. Censorship in China is an art (or joke).


That sounds like a very effective way to eliminate the oblique protests so common in Soviet fiction.




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