Social Media Websites and Apps
The Chinese government has always been apprehensive of western social media platforms. Thus, it is little wonder that most, if not all, popular social media apps and websites have no official existence in the communist state.
Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat (also Instagram, as mentioned above) are just some of the social media sites forbidden by the Chinese government.
The social media ban allows the Chinese state to monitor the information its citizens divulge about the nation and prevent any social unrest resulting from sharing provocative messages on SM apps and websites. Does this remind you of 1984?
8 Strange Things Banned In China
Let us begin by asking you two simple questions. First, are you someone who spends a lot of time scrolling through Instagram and can’t even imagine life without it? Second, are you planning to visit or move to China? If the answer to both these questions is a yes, then, unfortunately, you’ll have to give up on one thing – IG or China! Because China has banned Instagram.
Instagram banned. Seems quite irrational, right? Well, not for the Chinese Government that completely censored it starting September 2014 to stop people from sharing instigating images during the pro-democracy protests.
But Instagram is not the only one thing, China has a long list of banned artifacts – from popular websites such as Facebook and YouTube to some peculiar stuff such as cartoon characters and flowers. And we are going to look at some of them in this article.
So brace yourselves for the eight most strange things China has banned for various reasons.
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