When China hides disasters in a memory hole

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Here’s the Wikipedia entry:

“China Eastern Airlines Flight 5735”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Eastern_Airlines_Flight_...

Probably the worst dam failure disaster you've never heard of, deaths probably exceeded 200,000:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Banqiao_Dam_failure#Cover...

https://archive.ph/8G9pI

Interesting, i got this: Your browser is attempting to reach an Internet site containing child pornography images and videos. Inhibition of access to this site is provided by law [redacted by me].

This Internet browsing protection service is prepared thanks to the collaboration between the "National Center for Combating Online Child Pornography" and the [local country] Internet Service Providers.

Intentional display, dissemination, possession, disposal, production and marketing of this type of material is punishable by law as a crime.

So i changed vpn location.

I certainly understand the desire to redact identifying information, but the most plausible explanation is some censorship middlebox mandated by the specific country, and thus the country and law in question are highly relevant to why this happened. Also the specificity of the message means its likely that someone could still figure out which country you're talking about.

Oh weird, they're not talking about covid

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