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I hope this is just an automated mistake and they correct this and not filter against it.

If they don’t I feel they went down that slippery slope of beyond PC correctness and into prescriptive discourse. Truly lamentable given the nature of the medium. How are people supposed to have a “conversation” at all if something as innocuous as this gets flagged....

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This is absolutely not innocuous. China has seen many regimes fail over time. When a regime becomes corrupt and unfit to rule they are labeled as "bad men and bandits". Saying "Communist Bandit" indirectly through cultural reference characterizes Communists as unfit to rule and set to fall from power. Of course conversation and real speech has great value, but we are talking about an authoritarian regime experiencing a bout of paranoia.

Simple, talk only about things the CCP approves.

It's about time the West left China and focused on India. The Chinese society needs a generation or two to catch up politically, after three decades of insane economic and social changes.

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