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by logfromblammo 2979 days ago
That's why the Tiananmen Square Maassacre anniversary date is commonly referred to as "May 35th".

Banning specific representations of an idea is a game of whack-a-mole. As soon as you ban one symbolic representation, a new one will be created.

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The Chinese government isn't stupid. They do what they do because it works. Even the opposition agrees with this, hence the term

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilling_effect

The website dedicated to the topic of the OP article is even called... http://chillingeffects.org/ (since renamed to https://lumendatabase.org/ )