Here Are 6 Things China Has Banned Other Than The Likes Of Bitcoin and Ethereum
The Chinese government loves banning things! Don’t believe us? Well one has to look no further than the obvious authoritarian control China has over it’s citizen’s access to the internet for decades and as of September 2017, all cryptocurrencies and their exchange has been added to the list as well.
This decision comes as no surprise as the Chinese government has a long and arduous history of banning the most insane things- least of all a decentralized form of monetary exchange that literally threatens the government’s economic stronghold.
Here’s a list of other bizarre things that the Chinese government has banned in the past;
Animal Farm
George Orwell’s dystopian thriller was banned by the Communist Party in 2018 after they abolished presidential term limits. The famous novel was banned to put an end to any future protests across the country.
Online Dating for soldiers
After an increased suspicion that their militia was leaking state secrets through online sites, in 2010, the military banned online dating for a whopping 2.3 million soldiers.
Movies And Television About Time Travel
The Chinese government feels that topics such as time travel are subversive for the masses and therefore should be banned. In 2016, China’s media regulators categorized all such TV shows and movies to be unfit for public consumption.
Winnie-the-Pooh
The world’s most loved bear is also unwelcome in the Chinese Republic after Pooh was used as a meme against China’s President Xi Jinping following which the loved cartoon character was forever exiled from the country.
Weird Buildings
Historical monuments such as the Great Wall of China are a main tourist attraction, however following a government ban last year, the country can now no longer boast having any more bizarre buildings since the claim was that they already had too many, “oversized, xenocentric, weird” buildings.
The Big Bang Theory
In 2014, the Chinese government started discreetly blocking the hit US sitcom across the nation for fear of it’s extreme Western influence and the glorification and propagation of “nerd culture”, a trait that the country no longer wishes to be associated with.
