{"id":55381,"date":"2023-05-22T14:34:45","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T05:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/22\/comedian-uncle-roger-has-social-media-accounts-suspended-in-china"},"modified":"2023-05-22T14:34:45","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T05:34:45","slug":"comedian-uncle-roger-has-social-media-accounts-suspended-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55381","title":{"rendered":"Comedian Uncle Roger has social media accounts suspended in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Suspension of standup comedian, otherwise known as Nigel Ng, came after he posted a video making fun of the country\u2019s authoritarian government<\/p>\n<p>British-Malaysian comedian Uncle Roger has had his social media accounts in China suspended amid a crackdown by authorities on comics making fun of the authoritarian government.<\/p>\n<p>The comedian, whose real name is Nigel Ng, said over the weekend that his accounts on Bilibili and Weibo, where he has 400,000 followers, had been suspended due to a \u201cviolation of relevant laws and regulations\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/22\/comedian-uncle-roger-has-social-media-accounts-suspended-in-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suspension of standup comedian, otherwise known as Nigel Ng, came after he posted a video making fun of the country\u2019s authoritarian governmentBritish-Malaysian comedian Uncle Roger has had his social media accounts in China suspended amid a crackdown b&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3757,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[458,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-censorship","category-china"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3757"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55382,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55381\/revisions\/55382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}