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# How Chinese citizens use puns on Weibo to talk about MeToo and zero-Covid without being censored
- URL: https://werd.io/how-chinese-citizens-use-puns-on-weibo-to-talk-about/
- Published: 2022-10-11T22:01:33.000Z
- Updated: 2022-10-11T22:01:33.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-13 09:22

“This particular approach to internet speak — substituting words that sound like or are spelled like others — has been an essential part of being online in China for decades, allowing netizens to use the humor and cleverness of spoken Mandarin to dodge censorship.” [#Culture](https://werd.io/tag/Culture)

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