China has a very Orwellian reason for banning typing "1984" on social media, while allowing people to read Nineteen Eighty-Four

When I was a kid, I knew age-restricted rating on films with nudity was a sinister plot to keep the proles in line. But no one would listen. /s

(To be clear, I concur with the general point, but found that example too funny to pass up.)

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