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The overall claim is a sharp surprise, given that Meta has been banned from China due to censorship issues.
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Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 9 Apr. 2025
Set in a public gallery garden, this large-scale work (created by a filmmaker, an actress, an architect, and other artists) memorializes the uprising while navigating state censorship.
—Rebecca Ruth Gould, JSTOR Daily, 9 Apr. 2025
And even if the Internet is shut down locally, the global Bitcoin network will keep storing value, ready to be accessed anew whenever a crack in Internet censorship presents itself.
—Roger Huang, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
China’s film regulators also maintain strict censorship standards for film content and choose the release dates for all movies, reserving the most lucrative holiday windows for local Chinese films.
—Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 8 Apr. 2025
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Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 9 Apr. 2025
Set in a public gallery garden, this large-scale work (created by a filmmaker, an actress, an architect, and other artists) memorializes the uprising while navigating state censorship.
—Rebecca Ruth Gould, JSTOR Daily, 9 Apr. 2025
And even if the Internet is shut down locally, the global Bitcoin network will keep storing value, ready to be accessed anew whenever a crack in Internet censorship presents itself.
—Roger Huang, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
China’s film regulators also maintain strict censorship standards for film content and choose the release dates for all movies, reserving the most lucrative holiday windows for local Chinese films.
—Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 8 Apr. 2025
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“Censorship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/censorship. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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