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ooli@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Giraffes appear to be on a path to joining the ranks of Winnie the Pooh and Peppa Pig on Beijing's internet watchlist

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Giraffes appear to be on a path to joining the ranks of Winnie the Pooh and Peppa Pig on Beijing's internet watchlist

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ooli@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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Giraffes aren't outright banned on Weibo, but hashtags like #TheGiraffeIncident were blocked when the animals became the center of a wave of discontent.
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    Try telling that to the Lemmy.World admins who auto-censor removed. :/

    It’s a fucking British food you bastards! I will die on this hill! Free the removed!

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      Now I need to know what it is. My first thought would be Spotted Dick, but then Dick is a name. Maybe Pork removeds? That one I can understand being removed.

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        I think I know what it is. You can buy them in the supermarket. It’s slang for a gay man, rhymes with maggot.

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          Ah yes, I understand why they remove it as I don’t think it’s often used in its other contexts. I do prefer to use it to describe a bundle of sticks

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            Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

            bundle of sticks

            Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

            I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.

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          Ah so similiar to the german translation of the instrument bassoon?

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            And Norwegian. It’s hard to converse with countrymen on a platform running word filters for another language.

            Not just playing the instrument “removed”, but discussing school classes with friends and family as we would say “hvilke fag tar du i år?” to ask which classes you take this year. Luckily Lemmyworld isn’t that aggressive, but many online chat services and emails clients have started screaming at “fag”.

            Encountering such filters on a school computer that blocked my emails was particularly frustrating.

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          Someone has a word that shares the f-slur for a benign food product? Holy shit that’s unfortunate.

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          My dad used to talk about them. He’d call it faggots and peas.

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        Why the fuck is this showing up as “Pork removeds” for me?

        I feel like that guy on Reddit who accidentally set his device’s language to Spanish and asked for help in Reddit, and everyone pranked him by writing their comments in Spanish

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      It’s as if the Scunthorpe problem has been lost to history. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem

      Or https://www.expressandstar.com/news/2013/11/01/*removed*s-and-peas-fall-foul-of-facebook-censors/

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      Can Wikipedia bypass the censor?

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/*removed*_(food)

      Edit: nope

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      pork and offal or… that’s all I can think of that’d get removed

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