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mathematics","Historical",{"path":32,"title":33,"description":34,"keywords":35,"field":43,"order":18},"\u002Fevidence\u002Forigin-of-life","Origin of Life","What chemistry, geology and genomics currently tell us about how non-living matter became the first living cells.",[36,37,38,39,40,41,42],"abiogenesis","RNA world","Miller-Urey experiment","prebiotic chemistry","hydrothermal vents","protocells","LUCA","Biological",{"path":45,"title":46,"description":47,"keywords":48,"field":57,"order":18},"\u002Fevidence\u002Fsuffering","Suffering","How Siddhartha Gautama tested both luxury and severe self-denial, and what his diagnosis of suffering became.",[49,50,51,52,53,54,55,56],"Buddhism","Buddha","Siddhartha Gautama","dukkha","Four Noble Truths","Middle Way","Eightfold Path","craving","Cultural",{"path":59,"title":60,"description":61,"keywords":62,"field":70,"order":18},"\u002Fevidence\u002Fthe-evolution-of-trust","The Evolution of Trust","How the prisoner's dilemma, Axelrod's tournaments, 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Pan","adulthood",{"path":96,"title":97,"description":98,"keywords":99,"field":57,"order":83},"\u002Fevidence\u002Ftaoism","Taoism","What the Dao, wu wei and naturalness mean, and why Daoist texts separate caring for something from clinging to it.",[100,101,102,103,104,105,106,107],"Daoism","Laozi","Zhuangzi","Daodejing","Tao Te Ching","wu wei","yin and yang","attachment",{"path":109,"title":110,"description":111,"keywords":112,"field":17,"order":83},"\u002Fevidence\u002Ftime-dilation","Time Dilation","Why moving clocks and clocks deeper in gravity tick slower, and how the twin paradox resolves.",[113,114,115,116,117,118,119],"special relativity","general relativity","twin paradox","Lorentz factor","proper time","atomic clocks","GPS",{"path":121,"title":122,"description":123,"keywords":124,"field":17,"order":131},"\u002Fevidence\u002Fhiggs-field","Higgs Field","How an invisible field filling all of space gives mass to fundamental particles, and how it was found in 2012.",[125,126,127,128,129,130],"Higgs boson","particle physics","Standard Model","CERN","Large Hadron Collider","symmetry breaking",3,{"path":133,"title":134,"description":135,"keywords":136,"field":43,"order":131},"\u002Fevidence\u002Fmeditation","Meditation","What meditation trains, how it seems to work in the brain, and how strong the evidence really is.",[137,138,139,140,141,142],"mindfulness","attention","neuroscience","brain","stress","contemplative practice",{"path":144,"title":145,"description":146,"keywords":147,"field":57,"order":131},"\u002Fevidence\u002Fthe-god-of-the-gaps","The God of the Gaps","Why explaining unknowns by appeal to God keeps losing ground, and why many theologians reject the move themselves.",[148,149,150,151,152,153],"theology","religion and science","argument from ignorance","naturalism","cosmological argument","fine-tuning",{"path":155,"title":156,"description":157,"keywords":158,"field":43,"order":167},"\u002Fevidence\u002Fif-the-world-was-vegan","If the World Was Vegan","A scenario analysis of whether global agriculture could feed everyone without animals, and what it would mean for land, soil and ecosystems.",[159,160,161,162,163,164,165,166],"veganism","plant-based diet","agriculture","livestock","food security","soil fertility","biodiversity","nutrition",4,{"path":169,"title":170,"description":171,"keywords":172,"field":17,"order":167},"\u002Fevidence\u002Fkaluza-klein-reduction","Kaluza–Klein Reduction","How one extra, curled-up dimension turns Einstein's gravity into gravity plus electromagnetism, and why we have not seen it.",[173,174,175,9,176,177],"extra dimensions","compactification","gravity","unification","charge quantization",{"path":179,"title":180,"description":181,"keywords":182,"field":17,"order":188},"\u002Fevidence\u002F13-dimensional-models","13-Dimensional Models","Where the number 13 comes from in theoretical physics, why a universe with two time dimensions is mathematically possible, and why none of it is confirmed.",[183,184,185,186,173,187,174],"string theory","M-theory","F-theory","S-theory","two-time physics",5,{"path":190,"title":191,"description":192,"keywords":193,"field":57,"order":188},"\u002Fevidence\u002F1984","1984","What Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is about, why he wrote it, and why rival governments have banned or challenged it as propaganda for the other side.",[194,195,196,197,198,199,200,201],"George Orwell","Nineteen Eighty-Four","dystopia","totalitarianism","surveillance","Big Brother","Newspeak","censorship",{"path":203,"title":204,"description":205,"keywords":206,"field":17,"order":212},"\u002Fevidence\u002Ftachyons","Tachyons","Hypothetical particles that always move faster than light, why they would carry messages into the past, and why modern physics reads them as a sign of instability instead.",[207,208,209,210,211,113],"faster than light","superluminal","causality","imaginary mass","instability",6,{"path":214,"title":215,"description":216,"keywords":217,"field":17,"order":222},"\u002Fevidence\u002Fclosed-timelike-curves","Closed Timelike Curves","How Einstein's equations permit paths through spacetime that return to their own past, and why no one has ever found one.",[218,114,209,219,220,221],"time travel","wormholes","Godel","chronology protection",7,{"path":224,"title":225,"description":226,"keywords":227,"field":17,"order":232},"\u002Fevidence\u002Fnovikov-self-consistency-principle","Novikov Self-Consistency Principle","Why a journey into the past might never change it, and why that need not require any force preventing change.",[218,228,229,230,209,231],"grandfather paradox","causal loops","closed timelike curves","consistency",8,{"path":234,"title":235,"description":236,"keywords":237,"field":17,"order":242},"\u002Fevidence\u002Fbootstrap-paradox","Bootstrap Paradox","Causal loops in which an object or idea exists only because it was carried into its 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not from nothing but from the collapse of a previous one, and what physics can and cannot say about it.",[271,272,273,274,240,275],"cosmology","Big Bang","cyclic universe","loop quantum cosmology","eternal return",12,{"path":278,"title":279,"description":280,"keywords":281,"field":17,"order":288},"\u002Fevidence\u002Fgolden-ratio","Golden Ratio","Why one number, the golden ratio, keeps turning up in sunflowers, and why many famous claims about it are myths.",[282,283,284,285,286,287],"phi","Fibonacci","phyllotaxis","spirals","irrational numbers","geometry",13,{"path":290,"title":291,"description":292,"keywords":293,"field":17,"order":302},"\u002Fevidence\u002Fsha-256-encryption","SHA-256 Hashing","How the SHA-256 hash function works, why it cannot be run backwards, and what reversing it would actually require.",[294,295,296,297,298,299,300,301],"cryptography","hash function","SHA256","encryption","preimage resistance","collisions","Bitcoin","brute 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amplification","oracle",15,{"id":315,"title":191,"body":316,"description":192,"extension":1108,"field":57,"keywords":1109,"meta":1110,"navigation":1111,"order":188,"path":190,"seo":1112,"stem":1113,"__hash__":1114},"evidence\u002Fevidence\u002F1984.md",{"type":317,"value":318,"toc":1084},"minimark",[319,323,338,345,348,353,362,365,368,373,376,411,414,418,421,424,428,435,438,445,449,453,460,471,475,485,489,496,503,507,525,531,535,538,565,572,576,579,675,679,689,699,703,713,717,733,737,761,765,779,782,786,792,826,830,835,838,841,845,864,879,894,907,920,936,959,979,993,1009,1024,1039,1054,1069],[320,321,191],"h1",{"id":322},"_1984",[324,325,326,327,333,334],"p",{},"In 1981, a novel was challenged in Jackson County, Florida, on the grounds that it was \"pro-communist\" and contained explicit sexual material. ",[328,329,332],"sup",{"className":330},[331],"c-cite","[1]"," At the same time, the same novel could not legally be printed in the Soviet Union. Readers there passed around smuggled copies and typed duplicates, and could be prosecuted for owning them. ",[328,335,337],{"className":336},[331],"[2]",[324,339,340,341,344],{},"The book was George Orwell's ",[342,343,195],"em",{},". In one country it was accused of promoting communism; in another it was suppressed as an attack on it. The charges point in opposite directions. That contradiction is the most revealing part of the book's history.",[324,346,347],{},"To understand it, we need the story, Orwell's own politics, and the documented record of bans and challenges.",[349,350,352],"h2",{"id":351},"the-story","The Story",[324,354,355,357,358],{},[342,356,195],{}," was published in June 1949. Orwell wrote much of it on the Scottish island of Jura while seriously ill with tuberculosis. He died in January 1950. ",[328,359,361],{"className":360},[331],"[3,15]",[324,363,364],{},"The novel is set in Airstrip One, the former Britain, now a province of a superstate called Oceania. The world is divided among three permanently warring blocs: Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia. Oceania is ruled by the Party, whose ideology is called Ingsoc. At the top stands Big Brother, a face on every poster, who may or may not exist as a real person.",[324,366,367],{},"Society has three layers. The Inner Party rules. The Outer Party carries out its work and is watched most closely. The \"proles\", the large majority, are kept poor, distracted, and largely ignored.",[369,370,372],"h3",{"id":371},"the-machinery-of-control","The machinery of control",[324,374,375],{},"The Party controls people through several connected systems:",[377,378,379,387,393,399,405],"ul",{},[380,381,382,386],"li",{},[383,384,385],"strong",{},"Surveillance."," Two-way \"telescreens\" in homes and workplaces both broadcast and watch. The Thought Police look for any sign of disloyalty, including a wrong facial expression.",[380,388,389,392],{},[383,390,391],{},"Control of the past."," The protagonist, Winston Smith, works at the Ministry of Truth, where his job is to rewrite old newspaper articles so that the record always agrees with the Party's current line. When the enemy changes, the records are changed to show that the enemy was always the same.",[380,394,395,398],{},[383,396,397],{},"Newspeak."," The Party is developing a new official language designed to shrink vocabulary until rebellious thoughts become difficult to express. If there is no word for a thought, the reasoning goes, the thought becomes harder to think.",[380,400,401,404],{},[383,402,403],{},"Doublethink."," Party members are trained to hold two contradictory beliefs at the same time and accept both, and to forget that they have done so. The Party's slogans, such as \"War is Peace\", are built on this skill.",[380,406,407,410],{},[383,408,409],{},"Ritual hatred."," Daily sessions called the Two Minutes Hate direct anger at the enemy and at Emmanuel Goldstein, a supposed traitor who leads a shadowy resistance.",[324,412,413],{},"The four government ministries carry ironic names. The Ministry of Truth handles propaganda, the Ministry of Peace handles war, the Ministry of Plenty manages scarcity, and the Ministry of Love runs torture and interrogation.",[369,415,417],{"id":416},"winston-and-julia","Winston and Julia",[324,419,420],{},"Winston keeps a secret diary, which is itself a crime. He begins an affair with Julia, a young woman who rebels in more practical ways: she breaks the rules for pleasure and does not much care about politics. Their relationship is an act of resistance in a society that tries to turn all loyalty toward the Party.",[324,422,423],{},"They are drawn in by O'Brien, a member of the Inner Party who seems to belong to the resistance. He gives them a book said to be written by Goldstein, which explains how the system works. O'Brien turns out to be a loyal agent of the Party.",[369,425,427],{"id":426},"the-ministry-of-love-and-room-101","The Ministry of Love and Room 101",[324,429,430,431],{},"Winston and Julia are arrested. In the Ministry of Love, O'Brien tortures Winston over a long period. The goal is not a confession but a complete change of mind: Winston must come to believe whatever the Party says, even that two plus two can make five. O'Brien explains that the Party seeks power as an end in itself, not as a means to anything else. ",[328,432,434],{"className":433},[331],"[3]",[324,436,437],{},"The final stage is Room 101, which contains whatever each prisoner fears most. For Winston, it is rats. Faced with them, he begs that the punishment be given to Julia instead. That betrayal breaks the last private loyalty he had. In the final pages Winston, now released and empty, sits in a café and discovers that he loves Big Brother.",[324,439,440,441,444],{},"The novel ends with an appendix explaining the principles of Newspeak. It is written in standard English and in the past tense, and some readers take this as a hint that the regime eventually fell. That reading is an ",[383,442,443],{},"interpretation","; the book does not say so directly.",[349,446,448],{"id":447},"orwells-context","Orwell's Context",[369,450,452],{"id":451},"spain","Spain",[324,454,455,456],{},"The book makes more sense once you know what Orwell had seen. In late 1936 Orwell (born Eric Arthur Blair, and earlier a colonial police officer in Burma) went to Spain to fight against Franco in the Civil War. He joined the militia of the POUM, a small anti-Stalinist Marxist party. He was shot through the throat on the front. Soon afterward, the Soviet-backed Communists inside the Republican government suppressed the POUM, and Orwell had to flee Spain. ",[328,457,459],{"className":458},[331],"[4,15]",[324,461,462,463,466,467],{},"Orwell saw two things there that shaped the rest of his work. First, he saw people on his own side imprisoned and killed by their supposed allies. Second, he saw newspapers abroad report events he had witnessed in ways that were plainly false. His account, ",[342,464,465],{},"Homage to Catalonia"," (1938), was refused by his usual publisher, Victor Gollancz, because of its criticism of the Communists. ",[328,468,470],{"className":469},[331],"[4]",[369,472,474],{"id":473},"animal-farm","Animal Farm",[324,476,477,478,480,481],{},"His next major attack on Stalinism was ",[342,479,474],{},", written in 1943–44 and published in 1945. It is an allegory of the Russian Revolution and its betrayal under Stalin. It was rejected by several publishers, one rejection reportedly influenced by a Soviet agent, because Britain and the USSR were wartime allies. ",[328,482,484],{"className":483},[331],"[5]",[369,486,488],{"id":487},"why-i-write","\"Why I Write\"",[324,490,491,492],{},"In his 1946 essay \"Why I Write\", Orwell stated his position directly. He wrote that every line of serious work he had written since 1936 had been \"against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it.\" ",[328,493,495],{"className":494},[331],"[6]",[324,497,498,499,502],{},"This matters for the later history. Orwell was not a conservative, and he was not a capitalist ideologue. He was a man of the left who had become an enemy of Soviet communism ",[342,500,501],{},"because"," of what he had seen it do to the left.",[369,504,506],{"id":505},"the-1949-statement","The 1949 statement",[324,508,509,510,512,513,516,517,520,521],{},"When ",[342,511,195],{}," appeared, some American reviewers treated it as an attack on the British Labour government, which Orwell supported. In a letter of June 1949 to Francis A. Henson of the United Auto Workers, parts of which were published in the American press, Orwell said the novel was ",[383,514,515],{},"not"," intended as an attack on socialism or on the Labour Party. He described it instead as a warning about the perversions to which a centralized economy is liable, which he said had already been partly realized under Communism and Fascism. He also stressed that he was describing something that ",[342,518,519],{},"could"," happen, including in Britain, if it was not resisted. ",[328,522,524],{"className":523},[331],"[7]",[324,526,527,530],{},[383,528,529],{},"Certainty note."," Orwell's stated intentions are established by his own writing. What the novel \"really\" targets remains open to interpretation, as with any work of literature.",[349,532,534],{"id":533},"why-both-sides-found-it-dangerous","Why Both Sides Found It Dangerous",[324,536,537],{},"A reader in 1950 could look at the Party and see either of two things.",[377,539,540,554],{},[380,541,542,545,546,550,551],{},[383,543,544],{},"The anti-communist reading."," Oceania's purges, show trials, cult of the leader, rewritten history, and informers look like Stalin's Soviet Union. Goldstein resembles Trotsky. Scholars such as Masha Karp have argued that Orwell's picture of totalitarianism drew closely on Soviet reality. ",[328,547,549],{"className":548},[331],"[8]"," In the West the book quickly became a Cold War text. Orwell's own publisher, Fred Warburg, expected it to be worth \"a cool million votes to the Conservative Party.\" ",[328,552,524],{"className":553},[331],[380,555,556,559,560,564],{},[383,557,558],{},"The contradictory political readings."," In the West, the Party's name, Ingsoc (\"English Socialism\"), helped readers treat the novel as an attack on socialism. Soviet authorities made the opposite claim: that it exposed the future of capitalist societies rather than communism. ",[328,561,563],{"className":562},[331],"[9]"," The same book was therefore made anti-socialist and anti-capitalist at once, depending on which system was doing the reading.",[324,566,567,568,571],{},"Because the novel describes the ",[342,569,570],{},"methods"," of total control rather than any single named country, readers on each side could recognize their opponents in it, and censors on each side could fear that readers would recognize their own government.",[349,573,575],{"id":574},"the-documented-bans-and-challenges","The Documented Bans and Challenges",[324,577,578],{},"The claims below are limited to those that could be verified in reliable sources. Popular lists of \"countries that banned 1984\" often include cases that are hard to document; these are left out.",[580,581,582,598],"table",{},[583,584,585],"thead",{},[586,587,588,592,595],"tr",{},[589,590,591],"th",{},"Place and date",[589,593,594],{},"What happened",[589,596,597],{},"Status",[599,600,601,617,631,646,661],"tbody",{},[586,602,603,607,610],{},[604,605,606],"td",{},"Soviet Union, until 1988",[604,608,609],{},"Banned. Circulated in samizdat and smuggled copies; first legal Soviet publication in 1988",[604,611,612,613],{},"Established ",[328,614,616],{"className":615},[331],"[2,9]",[586,618,619,622,625],{},[604,620,621],{},"United States, 1981",[604,623,624],{},"Challenged in Jackson County, Florida, as \"pro-communist\" and sexually explicit",[604,626,627,628],{},"Established (challenge, not national ban) ",[328,629,332],{"className":630},[331],[586,632,633,636,639],{},[604,634,635],{},"China, 2018",[604,637,638],{},"Titles of Orwell's books were among terms blocked on social media during the term-limit debate",[604,640,641,642],{},"Reported; online keyword censorship, not a book ban ",[328,643,645],{"className":644},[331],"[10,11]",[586,647,648,651,654],{},[604,649,650],{},"Belarus, 2022",[604,652,653],{},"Order to withdraw all editions from sale; publisher detained",[604,655,656,657],{},"Reported by several outlets; officials denied a formal ban ",[328,658,660],{"className":659},[331],"[12,13,9]",[586,662,663,666,669],{},[604,664,665],{},"Russia, 2022",[604,667,668],{},"Not banned, but people handing out free copies were detained",[604,670,671,672],{},"Reported ",[328,673,563],{"className":674},[331],[369,676,678],{"id":677},"the-soviet-union","The Soviet Union",[324,680,681,682,685,686],{},"In the USSR the novel was banned until 1988. The first Russian translation was published abroad by the émigré publisher Possev in Frankfurt in 1957, after appearing in parts in the émigré magazine ",[342,683,684],{},"Grani",". Copies were smuggled in or retyped as samizdat. The dissident Valeria Novodvorskaya later described Orwell as a treasure of samizdat, and possession could lead to prosecution. ",[328,687,337],{"className":688},[331],[324,690,691,692,695,696],{},"Under Gorbachev's policy of glasnost, the ban was lifted. The first legal Soviet translation appeared in 1988 in ",[342,693,694],{},"Kodry",", a literary journal in Soviet Moldavia, and a Moscow edition of Viktor Golyshev's translation followed in 1989. ",[328,697,337],{"className":698},[331],[369,700,702],{"id":701},"the-united-states","The United States",[324,704,705,706,709,710,712],{},"In the United States, the book was never banned nationally. The recorded cases are local challenges, usually to its use in schools. The American Library Association records the 1981 Jackson County challenge on the grounds that the novel was \"pro-communist\" and sexually explicit. ",[328,707,332],{"className":708},[331]," That a book written by an anti-Stalinist to warn against totalitarianism could be challenged as communist propaganda suggests that, for some readers, the Party's name (Ingsoc) and the book's sexual content outweighed its argument. That is an ",[383,711,443],{},"; the challenge record gives only the stated grounds.",[369,714,716],{"id":715},"china","China",[324,718,719,720,722,723,727,728,732],{},"In February 2018, as China's leadership moved to remove presidential term limits, censors blocked many terms on the social media platform Weibo. The linguist Victor Mair of the University of Pennsylvania documented reports that the title ",[342,721,474],{}," was among them. ",[328,724,726],{"className":725},[331],"[10]"," News reports at the time said the term \"1984\" was also blocked. ",[328,729,731],{"className":730},[331],"[11]"," This was keyword censorship of online posts during a political event, not a documented ban on selling the book, and it should not be described as a national book ban.",[369,734,736],{"id":735},"belarus","Belarus",[324,738,739,740,743,744,746,747,751,752,756,757,760],{},"In May 2022, the Belarusian newspaper ",[342,741,742],{},"Nasha Niva"," published what it said was an official order to withdraw all editions of ",[342,745,191],{}," from sale. ",[328,748,750],{"className":749},[331],"[12]"," Around the same time, police in Minsk detained the publisher Andrei Yanushkevich, whose house had published a Belarusian translation, and his associate after their new bookstore was targeted by pro-government journalists. ",[328,753,755],{"className":754},[331],"[13]"," The novel reportedly disappeared from the state distributor's shelves, though officials denied that a formal ban existed. ",[328,758,563],{"className":759},[331]," The practical effect was a withdrawal from sale; the precise legal form remains unclear.",[369,762,764],{"id":763},"russia","Russia",[324,766,767,768,770,771,774,775],{},"After the invasion of Ukraine in 2022, sales of ",[342,769,191],{}," rose sharply in Russia. In Ivanovo, two people who handed out around 500 free copies were detained and charged with discrediting the Russian army. ",[328,772,563],{"className":773},[331]," In the same period, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova argued that the book was not about totalitarianism but about the dead end to which Western liberalism would lead. Viktor Golyshev, the novel's best-known Russian translator, publicly disagreed, calling it a novel about a totalitarian state. ",[328,776,778],{"className":777},[331],"[14]",[324,780,781],{},"That exchange is a precise modern example of the pattern this article describes: a government reframes the novel as a warning about its rivals.",[349,783,785],{"id":784},"what-the-book-does-and-does-not-establish","What the Book Does and Does Not Establish",[324,787,788,789,791],{},"It is worth being careful here, because ",[342,790,191],{}," is often used as if it were evidence.",[377,793,794,800,810,820],{},[380,795,796,799],{},[383,797,798],{},"It is a work of fiction."," It does not prove that any particular government is totalitarian. Comparing a policy to \"Orwellian\" methods is an argument, not a finding.",[380,801,802,805,806],{},[383,803,804],{},"Orwell's intentions are documented."," He wrote as a democratic socialist against totalitarianism of any kind, and he said so. ",[328,807,809],{"className":808},[331],"[6,7]",[380,811,812,815,816,819],{},[383,813,814],{},"Its targets are debated."," Scholars disagree about how much the book is about Stalin's USSR, about tendencies in Britain, or about intellectuals attracted to power. These are ",[383,817,818],{},"interpretations",", and reasonable ones can coexist.",[380,821,822,825],{},[383,823,824],{},"The ban history is uneven."," Some famous claims are well documented (the Soviet ban). Others are local challenges often exaggerated into \"bans\" (the United States). Others involve online censorship rather than book bans (China).",[349,827,829],{"id":828},"why-the-contradiction-lasts","Why the Contradiction Lasts",[324,831,832,834],{},[342,833,195],{}," lasted because it describes the machinery of control in general terms: surveillance, the rewriting of records, the corruption of language, and the demand that people deny what they see. Those mechanisms do not belong to one ideology. That is exactly why each side of the Cold War could recognize its enemy in the book, and why some governments feared their own citizens would recognize them.",[324,836,837],{},"The history of its bans follows from this. Soviet censors presented it as an attack on capitalism. American challengers called it communist propaganda. More recent authorities have reframed it as a warning about liberalism. Each reading turns the book outward, toward an enemy, even while the act of restricting it repeats one of the methods the book describes: controlling what people may read and how they may name events.",[324,839,840],{},"Orwell described the book as a warning, not a prophecy. What is known is that its vocabulary, from Big Brother to doublethink to Room 101, has become one of the standard ways people talk about power. What remains unresolved, and probably always will, is whose government it describes best.",[320,842,844],{"id":843},"references","References",[324,846,847,850,851,854,855,858],{},[383,848,332,849],{}," American Library Association. 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(2018, February 26)."," \"The letter * has bee* ba**ed in Chi*a.\" ",[342,1000,1001],{},"Language Log",", University of Pennsylvania.",[856,1004],{},[859,1006,1007],{"href":1007,"rel":1008},"https:\u002F\u002Flanguagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\u002Fnll\u002F?p=36939",[863],[324,1010,1011,1014,1015,854,1018,1020],{},[383,1012,731,1013],{}," INQUIRER.net. (2018, March 5)."," \"Chinese president Xi Jinping bans words 'Animal Farm,' 'disagree,' 'I oppose,' among others.\" ",[342,1016,1017],{},"Philippine Daily Inquirer",[856,1019],{},[859,1021,1022],{"href":1022,"rel":1023},"https:\u002F\u002Fnewsinfo.inquirer.net\u002F972994\u002Fchinese-president-xi-jinping-bans-words-animal-farm-disagree-i-oppose-among-others",[863],[324,1025,1026,1029,1030,854,1033,1035],{},[383,1027,750,1028],{}," Literary Hub. 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