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

Daaksyde · January 15, 2019, 4:47am

3 years of the Rat ago? in the year of the Wood Rat? born the year after the A-Team premiered? Born in the year of the Ghostbusters and the Transformers?

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

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