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>The Chinese government has banned the letter 'N' and George Orwell's Animal Farm and 1984 in a major online censorship clampdown.
>Experts believe the crackdown is part of leader Xi Jinping's plans to become a dictator for life. The move has been met with criticism from around the world.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/china-bans-the-letter-n-and-george-orwells-animal-farm-as-president-xi-jinping-extends-grip-on-power-a3777686.html

>According to a list compiled by the China Digital Times website, search terms blocked on Weibo, China's Twitter, included:

> 'Ten thousand years' (万岁), which is China's way of saying: 'Long live!' or 'Viva!'
> 'Disagree' (不同意)
> 'Xi Zedong' (习泽东) - a hybrid of the names of Xi and Chairman Mao Zedong
> 'Shameless' (不要脸)
> 'Lifelong' (终身)
> 'Personality cult' (个人崇拜)
> 'Emigrate' (移民)
> 'Immortality' (长生不老)

>The name Yuan Shikai, a Qing dynasty warlord who unsuccessfully tried to restore monarch to China, was also banned as were the titles of two George Orwell books, 1984 and Animal Farm.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/28/china-bans-the-letter-n-internet-xi-jinping-extends-power

>Just days after the Chinese Communist Party announced that presidential term limits could be abolished, opening the door for President Xi Jinping to continue his rule indefinitely, Chinese government censors issued an extensive list of newly banned words on the popular microblogging site Weibo.

>The terms “my emperor” and “lifelong control” were banned from use, along with references to George Orwell’s dystopian novels Animal Farm and 1984, which describe worlds where authoritarian leaders strictly control the populations under them.

https://www.vox.com/2018/2/27/17058074/china-banned-words-jinping