A Guide to Everything Banned in China 

5:19 I thought this was gonna be the start of a VPN ad

When he talks about a VPN and doesn’t Segway into a sponsor. Kinda surprised me really

Went to China after 5 years to see my grandparents, and since I’m more aware now, it was quite frustrating that I couldn’t access outside internet. As long as you’ve experienced the internet on the other side, the internet in China was just very weird. Most people in China are actually quite aware that there is a firewall, especially the younger generation, but they don’t care that much about it

I've been living in China for nearlly ten years now, and I've never heard about the ban on talking animals. That's kind of stupid because one of their most revered mythological beings, Sun WuKong (孙悟空), is a monkey that talks. The Kung Fu Panda franchise is hugely successful and it's nothing but talking animals. SpongeBob and Paw Patrol are popular with Chinese children, and talking animals isn't warping their minds or anything. It would be a bit hypocritical if they really did enforce the ban.

God knows every country could do with a ban on NicocadoAvocado

Imagine saying "tank man" instead of "thanks man" and suddenly you see the police on your doorstep to inform you in your execution day

Fun fact: Typing "June 4th Tianamen Square massacre" in Chinese in an in game chat causes any Chinese people in the server to be disconnected.

Haha the “grass is always less green on the other side” thing is spot on. That’s the most common way the government conditions their people in east Asia. Even Japan is guilty of it. (lived there for 16 years) I never knew how bad we had it until I moved to the US. Everyone is like “we’re missing out on personal freedoms? oh well, it can’t be as bad as outside of Japan” and no one even dares to do anything about it.

>discord is banned Utopia.

"There's no social credit score" +100 social credit score

If you're wondering about the phrase "10,000 Years", it's a way to wish someone a long life. In ancient China it was used to wish the emperor, while during the Cultural Revolution it was used to wish Chairman Mao. Nowadays in China, it's just used as an exclamation of joy in general. When Italy scored a goal in the 2006 World Cup's round of 16 against Australia, the Chinese commentator said "Italy ten thousand years!" interpreted as his way of saying "Forza Italia". So it's in no way a negative thing Meanwhile in the DPRK, saying ten-thousand years is used for whenever the Supreme Leader enters a building. Or as the world knows it, "Manse/만세!" Whenever this happens for a big event, Song of Happiness for the Great Leader, the DPRK version of Hail to the Chief, is played in the background.

I lived in China from 2010 to 2016, lived in Guangzhou for one year, Shanghai for 5, and traveled all over the country. As a foreigner living there, I only felt I was living in an authoritarian state when I used the internet. People in society are out and about, unafraid, dining, partying, having fun, shopping shopping shopping... it's capitalism on steroids. When I tried to talk to Chinese people about the government, they never seemed afraid to talk, it just didn't interest them. They reminded me of American teenagers-- talking about friends, dating, their social media, pop culture, but no interest in politics. I met people who had lived abroad, and while there, they never bothered to learn about the Tiananmen Square Massacre. It's like they didn't want to know because the truth would be ugly. And they are believers in Tibet and Taiwan being a part of China. They tow the line whole-heartedly. I loved my China experience, but the internet really was a nightmare. Even unblocked websites would take forever to load. I'd have to click "play" on a 10 minute video and wait 30 minutes for it to load so that it would play with only a few interruptions. Every so often, my VPN would stop working. This especially happened during sensitive anniversaries and when there'd be an international summit. I never knew when I'd be able to use fast and uncensored internet. When I'd visit Hong Kong or Taiwan, it was heavenly. It was like... China with fast, uncensored internet. I literally went to Hong Kong once just for a vacation from the firewall. And yes, WeChat.... it was so weird when I moved back to the USA and WeChat was no longer necessary. That app is EVERYTHING in China. You can't function without it. Digital life in the USA suddenly seemed so complicated, having to use so many apps to do different things, when in China, I only needed one. Americans don't even know what WeChat is. That is still bizarre for me.

“phrases like Tank Man and 4th of June are banned” rip to the one Newgrounds user who was born on June 4th

When he said "Hey look they are even building a copy of the holocaust!" I felt that

I'm American and I've been watching a Chinese show recently, and it's super weird how things get censored. In one scene a character is reading a scientific paper titled "The Effects of Pollution on the Environment" but the word Pollution is blurred out, lol. I clicked on your video because of that show.

Regarding the talking animal ban, that one isn't true. Ever heard of Journey to the West? You may know it as Monkey King, but it's China's most famous tale. A tale that features...talking creatures. For the 2008 Summer Olympics, when the mascots were revealed, the Chinese government released cartoons showcasing them where they talked. The mascots, known as the Fuwa, represent, you guessed it...different creatures from China. Kung Fu Panda is also insanely popular in China. The book Alice in Wonderland was banned in one province for putting talking animals at the same level as humans, but that was back in 1931, so before the PRC was a thing. "Winnie the Pooh is NOT banned in China" and while Disney World has the Hall of Presidents showcasing an animatronic of every president in US history up until the current, Shanghai Disneyland's Hall of Presidents is.... *The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh* (yes, this ride is at the park). Funny thing you mention Avatar in China, in 2019 Endgame took the title of highest grossing movie of all time from Avatar. However in 2021, Avatar was able to re-claim its title because it was re-released in China. Though it's just Disney...beating Disney. The embodiment of the Obama awarding Obama meme

"When is your birthday?" "4th of June" -1000 SOCIAL CREDIT

"They're even building a copy of the Holocaust" Why am I laughing so hard at that?

Great video but please make more of ones to enlighten people. I stumbled upon someone complaining in your comment section about loosing job and seeking for help. Having multiple income sources is very crucial to financial growth.

I remember talking to a kid on Fortnite who was in China, he wanted to add me on “WeChat” and when I jokingly said screw the president he got extremely scared. Kept saying “no no no don’t say that!” I wonder if they’re always being watched? He made it sound like he was gonna be dragged away by the government for even having heard me say that.

"China is ranked last place" Turkmenistan and North Korea: **Laughs in distance**

Fun fact: this video is banned in People's Republic of China

As a Chinese, I really appreciate them. In order to access those apps, I learned so much about how Computer Network works, such as TCP/IP, HTTP; and how to build a personal VPS to serve as something like ISP, then connect it with SSH protocol and some other ways of encryption. I know that I can never gain those skills if there is not GFW. So thanks to Fang Binxing, the founder of GFW.

I had a chance to talk to a TV producer from Japan a few years back. Because of the fact that TV is slowly dying as an entertainment in a traditional sense, one of the ways producing companies in Japan, and I would guess other (East) Asian countries, earn money is by selling IP's and rights to Chinese production companies which then create their own versions of films and series. Guess that's a way of making sure not much foreign stuff comes in.

imagine being born on the 4th of June and not being able to tell anyone when your birthday party is

"Chinese people are free to travel" Well as long as you didnt question authority so far. Once you did bad stuff, you wont be allowed to travel anymore

"Hey look! They are even building a copy of the holo-" Good job man. That earned a sub.

> Websites may only partially load This is because some sites choose to serve resources from a common location, such as the JSDelivr CDN, to save on traffic to their own server/whatever serverless construct they're using, like S3 or GH pages. I don't think the chinese would block CDNs that have things such as an authoritative version of JQuery, hence it's most likely a case of heuristic-based blocking instead of a hard BGP block.

Plague Inc. being banned might have been the funniest shit I’ve seen all day 😂

The word “disagree” being a banned word is just so perfect. Like the very concept itself is wrong, which is of course the case.

I used to work for a NZ web host. We were constantly shuffling sites around for our exporter customers, as their node was added to the great firewall because of one social justice site sharing the host IP.

Good video. The list is still expanding.

All throughout the 2000s, I had a Chinese friend I used to exchange long letters with on an online forum - we'd talk about the arts, and football, and life and its ups and downs... earlier in the 2010s, she suddenly disappeared, and I only later found out the site we were on was banned in China. Too bad we didn't exchange email addresses or anything... I still think about her sometimes, wonder how she's doing. I hope you're doing okay. I miss you.

A wise man once said “how strong is this national pride if you have to stop people from joking about it on the internet?”

This was incredibly fascinating. Sad, but fascinating.

Super interesting and entertaining!

I'm pretty sure the "talking animal ban" is complete bs. Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, is certainly not banned in China for being an iconic folktale character, Black Cat Detective is a famous (albeit very propagandistic) cartoon from the early days of Chinese animation, and more recently I remember the show "Pleasant Goat and the Big Big Wolf" being quite popular with the kids in China. Zootopia was officially released in Chinese theaters as well. It's pretty clear to me that there is no ban on talking animals in Chinese media, and I'm not sure where that myth came from.

"Lygbyt" is the best pronunciation I never heard before

Interestingly, when I was in China about 6 years ago or so, Facebook messenger does work, but only with pre-existing chats, if I tried to create a new one it'd block the app, but if I used a chat that was in place before entering China it worked. Dunno if it's still the case though.

Fantastic video!

Toddler: “Mommy I wanna big yellow duck” The mom: “shit”

I'm surprised that the social credit score system was not implemented. My psychology professor even showed us a video in class suggesting it was implemented and we held a debate about it. Not to mention all of the memes and general internet commentary on it.

like TIKTOK, DJI, HUAWEI, CATL, BYD and so on banned in US?

I like how you were playing "big in Japan" over a video about China

“Now, all of this could be avoided by using a vpn…” Me: *skips 30 seconds instinctively*

im vietnamese and hearing that VPN in china has a slang as Vietnamese Pho Noodle is absolutely hilarious to me 😂

The fact he didn’t give us a vpn ad after talking about it makes him the best RU-vidr currently living.

They banned the word disagree. 😂 And they lived happily ever after, never disagreeing on anything.

"What's your birthday?" - [REDACTED] "Oh, what about your job?" - [REDACTED]

The VPN part would’ve been perfect for a sponsor missed opportunity

09:19 - A simple, yet extremely profound statement. Great video, BTW. I learned a few new facts throughout. Worth a sub - looking fwd to your other vids.

I've studied with several exchange Chinese students at the university and what I found is that they are profoundly apolitical.

Whenever I learn more about China, I realise how lucky we are to live with the freedoms we actually have.

large fan of how kung fu panda breaks so many of these rules yet it started an animation craze

You are so right about the social credit system . My family lives there no one is ever heard of social credit system

Next video: a Guide to Every Video Game Banned in Australia

One of the strangest things I’ve experienced is a Chinese colleague being afraid to search things on google afraid she would face punishment from her own country somehow. We were in school in Canada at the time.

As a chinese i agree with this. You know what, when people talk online they do not even dare to put the word 'blood' ,'kill' , 'police' etc in the text, they will simply just put the first letter of the word to represents the actual word, for example, the word 殺(sha)　means to kill, and they will only type S to represent the word. Netizens in china always joke about if the government continue to ban whatever word they like, Chinese language will become dots and symbols. coz we have no more Chinese word to use.

Great video

From 05:07 to 05:18, that's actually the "Hong Kong Protest" during 2019 where you can see the graffitis requesting for "Five demands, not one less" (aka "五大訴求，缺一不可") and the logo for the train service provider that was hit by the protestor.

Chinese here. This video is perhaps one of the most insightful and accurate description of the Chinese Internet’s ecosystem. I’d be impressed if you got this done without any help from a Chinese guy. Job well done!

As someone who used to live in China I can confirm a few things: The average person of China is in one of 3 categories: 1. Unaware of the "outside" internet 2. Using a ladder to access the internet (various purposes) 3. Content, they know about the outside but see no need to climb the wall

I had to sub at the concentrate camp part. Jeez

Not talking about Nord VPN was probably the most surprising thing about a RU-vid video I have seen this year. The PTSD is real, man.

Wow … As a chinese person i'm surprised how accurate and your content is.And even some content is too localized, it is difficult for foreigners to understand…Thank you for introducing our bad situation to the audience in westworld from a fair and objective perspective

Lots of this is true, but some stuff here is allowed, such as ASMR videos, movies with time travel, and the Big Bang Theory. All of these are allowed on well known Chinese platforms such as bilibili and movie/tv show platforms like Youku and IQIYI.

Great documentary.

that holocaust jokee caught me so offguard I scared my cats with how much I was laughing.

I spoke to a Chinese foreign student once on his first year, he said "democracy sounds great but if it causes so many problems I don't think it's worth it". They know what is happening, but as long as the economy / lifestyle keeps improving most will not act against it

Props to the editor for making the coordinates shown at 6:30 actually point to the dead center of China.

Gonna need an updated version now.

Just wanted to correct two mistakes regarding the banned things: 1) While Winnie the Pooh is not banned by itself, itis banned when it’s mentioned together with Xi, any searches containing the two names will not return any results on the Chinese internet. 2) Time travel AFAIK is allowed in movies/media as I’ve watched a couple of mainstream Chinese shows/movies with it as a theme.

Something about the June 4th censorship: I play genshin, food fantasy, demon cultivation....something, but they're run by chinese companies and every year, for more than a month before and after June 4th, they disable the change nickname or bio option. The global and guild chats are disabled too, and in food fantasy at least, the mail notifications only show the rewards to claim, no text. On some obscure chinese rpg games, they completely disable the friend and private chat system as well as everything mentioned above, probably because they're from small companies and one June 4th language transgression could get their games removed from downloads.

That conclusion was insane

points for using birth of a new day for the outro music

I remember my college writing class, and how the two lovely Chinese exchange students didn’t have a clue what the Tiananmen Square Massacre was. Never heard of it. To say it was difficult to watch them have it explained to them in detail in front of the entire class by fellow classmates and the instructor was… yeah…

"Hey look! they're even building the copy of the holocaust-"

Actually many Chinese know about that,but we don’t have the ability to change it.😢

Liked the conclusion

“Social credit isn’t real” Should’ve put a yet at the end.

I was expecting this video to come from a channel with 1000 times the size. Well done, keep at it.

Chinese here. Mostly true. But VPN is way more popular than I thought actually, not very difficult for younger generations to access the international Internet.

Outstanding video.

I love how "they're even making a copy of the holocaust" is your most replayed segment. Good. Don't forget it.

7:24 LMFAOOOOOOOO

I live in China, so I must need a VPN to watch RU-vid, X, Facebook, and other sites……🙃

This will need to be updated every two and a half weeks

I have a friend who lives in beijing and i've asked about the credit score, and apparently it is kind of a thing, just in select regions for select people.

I was learning chinese at a Confucius Institute in Mexico City. We had an author visiting the school, Mai Jia. He was presenting his newest book, which was about espionage. The audience was given the word. I asked him what he thought about the Tian An Men massacre... I didn't know where I was until I saw the audience's reaction that I understood where I was, I was at a place where everyone was on the CCP's side... Saw a bunch of facepalming and just shunning in general... That's when I got scared at how big is the CCP's influence

Well done video. Thank you

HKE at the ending tripped me out

As an actual Chinese ladder user getting to see this video, I’d say it’s 99% true, the last bit is that the connection of Wikipedia site from China kept getting worse since the year 2015, as for now it's impossible for us like reddit or twitter if without a ladder.

My dad was at Tiananmen Square. When we talked about the massacre, he apologized to me and my brother, for failing to earn the freedom that we deserved for us. I still cry every time I think of his face when he was saying that.

1:30 my friend was born on 4th of June. She'd have a hard time over there inviting anyone to her birthday party.

Australia has a great firewall as well, and Freedom House bizarrely rates it as "Free" -- with a score of 76/100.

3:29 China really banned the word "disagree". What has this world come to

I've lived in China and left in 2019. While some of what you said is correct a couple things stand out as being very wrong. The English wikipedia article of Tiananmen square IS blocked in China. Why? Because the entirety of wikipedia as a website itself is blocked in China. Another claim that is very wrong is that China doesn't have a social credit system. Yes it absolutely has it. It just hasn't been rolled out in all of China and only about 40% of the Chinese population (Still more than a half billion people) live under some level of the social credit system. It's been active in all big first tier cities and while the rule and point system is different based on local government tuning it's usually a system where everyone scores a 1000 points that can go up to 1400 for good behavior and down to 600 points for bad behavior. I personally had a score of 1138 at the time of leaving China in the city of Shenzhen.

What is worse is that this list will need a big update now.

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Technically correct is the best kind of correct. Just like the Chinese language, Chinese legislation does not operate based on rules but base on context. The goal of Chinese legislation is not to provide a guideline of operation but to provide a guideline on the desired outcome. Hence many Chinese laws and rules only state the desired result but not the process which to achieve said result or the situation in which the rule is applied. Which is the reason why there is much inconsistency in the examples provided in the video. The video provided a relatively accurate and comprehensive (compare to other videos of similar topic on RU-vid) description of the process but only briefly touched on the result of the desired process, and the relevant context which produced such process.