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Chinese Censors Crack Down on Time Travel

Posted by samzenpus on from the leaving-the-past-alone dept.

H_Fisher writes "Disrespect the Chinese government at your peril ... and this includes anything you do with the past. Time magazine's Techland blog reports that China is banning references to time travel which are disrespectful to the nation's culture and history. No word on whether this includes a travel ban on time lords."

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  1. Alternative history by Kell+Bengal · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It seems to me that their real fear is people latching on to the idea that things could ever have worked out differently. If people explore alternative histories and conjecture what would have happened if the ruling regime didn't come to power, how things might have been changed... perhaps for the better.

    Better to nip those flights of fancy in the bud and keep everyone's horizons nicely blinkered and focused on the factory assembly line.

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  2. In Capitalist China, Time Travel is Banned. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think I smell the birth of a new meme.

  3. No. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Their top researchers are too busy trying to figure out why ridiculous foreigners don't seem to comprehend that their language does, in fact, contain an 'L' sound.