{"id":67400,"date":"2024-10-23T14:50:12","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T05:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/23\/china-meme-online-pun-crackdown-rules"},"modified":"2024-10-23T14:50:12","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T05:50:12","slug":"china-cracks-down-on-uncivilised-online-puns-used-to-discuss-sensitive-topics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=67400","title":{"rendered":"China cracks down on \u2018uncivilised\u2019 online puns used to discuss sensitive topics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Campaign targets wordplay and memes that are often used by people to get around censorship controls<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s internet regulators have launched a campaign cracking down on puns and homophones, one of the last remaining ways for citizens to safely discuss sensitive subjects without recriminations or censorship.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cclear and bright\u201d campaign is targeting \u201cirregular and uncivilised\u201d language online, particularly jokes, memes, and wordplay, the Cyberspace Administration of China and the ministry of education announced this month.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/23\/china-meme-online-pun-crackdown-rules\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campaign targets wordplay and memes that are often used by people to get around censorship controlsChina\u2019s internet regulators have launched a campaign cracking down on puns and homophones, one of the last remaining ways for citizens to safely discuss &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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":[41,458,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-censorship","category-china"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67400","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67401,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67400\/revisions\/67401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}