No Joke. April Fools' Day Has Been Banned In China (washingtonpost.com)

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No Joke. April Fools' Day Has Been Banned In China (washingtonpost.com)

Posted by msmash on Friday April 1, 2016 @02:00AM from the there-is-no-spoon dept.

Reader schwit1 quotes an article by Simon Denyer, who heads The Washington Post's China bureau: The ancient tradition of hoaxing and playing practical jokes on the first day of April has fallen victim to China's crackdown. Like democracy and free speech, it is a Western concept that simply isn't welcome here."'April Fools' Day' is not consistent with our cultural tradition, or socialist core values," state news agency Xinhua announced on social media Friday. "Hope nobody believes in rumors, makes rumors or spreads rumors." As part of a long-running effort to win control of the narrative on social media and deter dissent, China's Communist Party launched a campaign three years ago to criminalize the spreading of rumors. Xinhua's post suggests an April Fools' Day prank that mocked or undermined the Party could have potentially serious consequences.

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OMG Ponies 10th anniversary not observed by Anonymous Coward · 2016-04-01 02:05 · Score: 2, Funny

/. treating it like "June Fourth Incident", must not acknowledge it happened
1. Re:OMG Ponies 10th anniversary not observed by Anonymous Coward · 2016-04-01 02:39 · Score: 0
  
  You mean the "Bay of Ponies"
The Chinese are smarter than Americans by Anonymous Coward · 2016-04-01 02:06 · Score: 4, Insightful

They get how fucking stupid April 1 jokes are.
1. Re:The Chinese are smarter than Americans by jandersen · 2016-04-01 02:11 · Score: 2
  
  Apropos: https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...
2. Re:The Chinese are smarter than Americans by Kohath · 2016-04-01 02:50 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  April Fools jokers are assholes. We need a day dedicated to telling people to stop being an asshole.
3. Re:The Chinese are smarter than Americans by Anonymous Coward · 2016-04-01 03:27 · Score: 2, Insightful
  
  April Fools reminds people to skeptically evaluate what "official sources" tell them. It encourages people to question things. To not take them at face value. To wonder what the truth really is. Of course the government of China doesn't like that. It's the opposite of what they want. They want the public to blindly accept what the government or any other official source tells them, not to question it. Not on April 1, and not on any other day.
  April Fools jokers are not assholes. They're fighting for a world where people are skeptical and questioning. That's a good thing, because it means people will hopefully apply that all the other days of the year when they hear a headline or read a news article. "Is this for real?" is a question we should be asking all the time.
  Besides the Chinese government or any other oppressive government, I can also see why the gullible might not like that kind of demonstration.
4. Re:The Chinese are smarter than Americans by Anonymous Coward · 2016-04-01 03:55 · Score: 0
  
  April Fools jokers are assholes. We need a day dedicated to telling people to stop being an asshole.
  For all their talk of empty diversity, thus proving, not only that millennials are brain dead, but also that their souls are dead as well.
5. Re:The Chinese are smarter than Americans by Kohath · 2016-04-01 04:12 · Score: 1
  
  Many of us are already at maximum skeptical. What we need now is a reason to trust anyone about anything.
6. Re:The Chinese are smarter than Americans by fbobraga · 2016-04-01 05:48 · Score: 1
  
  In Soviet Russia, it may be true (or not...)
Genuine? by Coisiche · 2016-04-01 02:06 · Score: 1

How do we know this isn't The Washington Post's 1st April article? Every newspaper I know of runs at least one.
1. Re:Genuine? by Anonymous Coward · 2016-04-01 02:52 · Score: 1
  
  It sounds like China's sense of humor to me. Like, it is an April Fool's Joke, but the punchline is you get disappeared into an organ-harvesting van.
2. Re:Genuine? by TheDarkMaster · 2016-04-01 02:55 · Score: 2
  
  Every newspaper I know of runs at least one
  
  Sadly the Brazilian newspapers are too dumb to make 1st April jokes. Or thinking on the other hand, they spend so much time trying to lie to us Brazilians all year long that we should not be able to see the difference when is April 1.
  
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No dumb April Fools stories on Slashdot today by SeriousTube · 2016-04-01 02:12 · Score: 2

Thank goodness there are no stupid painfully obvious April Fool's stories on Slashdot today (yet). Some web sites make good April Fool's stories. Slashdot's always made me cringe.
1. Re:No dumb April Fools stories on Slashdot today by Anonymous Coward · 2016-04-01 02:17 · Score: 0
  
  This ^ +10 (apparently)
  Oh, and all hail the new owners of slashdot, bert and ernie koch
2. Re:No dumb April Fools stories on Slashdot today by danbert8 · 2016-04-01 02:39 · Score: 2
  
  I am actually rather enjoying the scores and UIDs in binary though. I think we should make it permanent.
  
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3. Re:No dumb April Fools stories on Slashdot today by Jason+Levine · 2016-04-01 02:47 · Score: 1
  
  Or at least a user-settable option. "I was rated 101 Insightful!"
  
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4. Re:No dumb April Fools stories on Slashdot today by dywolf · 2016-04-01 03:12 · Score: 1
  
  there were plenty at work today, from people who shouldn't be making jokes.
  Boss at weekly meeting: "and we're going home 5 hours early today....april fools!" .... NO. JUST NO. SHUT UP AND GET THIS STUPID MEETING OVER WITH.
  That's what they need to ban: bad workplace April Fools "jokes".
  
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5. Re:No dumb April Fools stories on Slashdot today by T0min · 2016-04-01 03:13 · Score: 1
  
  I'd prefer hexadecimal. These binary numbers are way too long for user IDs and comment numers.
6. Re:No dumb April Fools stories on Slashdot today by Anonymous Coward · 2016-04-01 04:30 · Score: 0
  
  Well, at least for today the scores go up to, and beyond, 11. *drops mic* (not on purpose)
7. Re:No dumb April Fools stories on Slashdot today by danbert8 · 2016-04-01 04:54 · Score: 1
  
  Pfft, this coming from a 22 digit UID? I am such a young'un with a mere 20 digits! If I had bothered registering earlier I might even have a coveted sub 10 digit UID...
  
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Stop using the term "crackdown" by Anonymous Coward · 2016-04-01 02:14 · Score: 0

Governments don't "crack down" on human rights; they oppress them. "Crackdown" makes it sound like what they are doing is moral and just, as if those free-reining humans had it coming, and government is just now getting around to putting them in their place. Is that what you mean by "crackdown"? Because that's sure what it sounds like.
1. Re:Stop using the term "crackdown" by KGIII · 2016-04-01 02:21 · Score: 2, Insightful
  
  I have never thought of it that way. The government almost always seems to think what they're doing is moral and just. But, the word crackdown means tyranny or oppression to me. For better or worse, every law is reducing someone's liberties - such as the liberty to own slaves. (It's probably a good idea to have that law. Don't get me wrong.)
  Anyhow, whenever I hear a government crackdown is going on - it usually means they're going trampling on someone's liberties or, worse, freedoms.
  
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2. Re:Stop using the term "crackdown" by Jason+Levine · 2016-04-01 02:51 · Score: 1
  
  Government, at it's best, is an intermediary to determine where one person's liberties end and another's begins. For example, I might insist that I have the liberty to take your property, but this infringes on your liberty to keep your own property. The government steps in and sets rules. It might limit some liberties but it's needed to ensure that society doesn't descend into anarchy.
  When government goes too far, though, it begins restricting liberties in the name of preserving government power or to protect some "ruling class" from "the rabble." This could come in the form of "protecting against terrorism" by limiting free speech and increasing government surveillance or it could come in overly restrictive voter registration laws that are actually intended to keep poor people from voting. In China's case, it's the politicians flexing their muscles and saying "We've decided we don't like X so now nobody can have X!"
  
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3. Re:Stop using the term "crackdown" by Kohath · 2016-04-01 03:09 · Score: 1
  
  Yeah, governments bully people. That's why people like me advocate government bullying should only be used when absolutely necessary - a lot less than it is now.
4. Re:Stop using the term "crackdown" by Anonymous Coward · 2016-04-01 03:29 · Score: 1
  
  Spotted the millenial. Your understanding of the term "crackdown" comes from recent pop-culture usage, although I can't blame you. The media has been using it that way (wrongly) for the past 5 or more years. But realize that the term "crackdown" means something very different to previous generations. It doesn't imply oppression at all -- rather just the opposite. It implies that the people being "cracked down upon" are truly guilty and deserving of the consequences. For example, "Jimmy's Mom finally cracked down on his staying out late". Clearly, Jimmy is guilty, and Mom is just now getting around to putting him in his place, and rightfully so. Furthermore, Mom only has Jimmy's best interest in mind, even though she's been pushed to the point of being stern.
  That's MY understanding of the term, and you can see now that it doesn't apply in any way to actual oppression, and that using the term to describe actual oppression is an insult to the victims.
5. Re:Stop using the term "crackdown" by roman_mir · 2016-04-01 03:41 · Score: 1
  
  such as the liberty to own slaves. (It's probably a good idea to have that law. Don't get me wrong
  - except that ability to own slaves was the law in itself, the law started slavery.
  
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6. Re:Stop using the term "crackdown" by Anonymous Coward · 2016-04-01 03:52 · Score: 0
  
  The only role of government in a free society to is to protect the individual's liberty.
7. Re:Stop using the term "crackdown" by Anonymous Coward · 2016-04-01 04:00 · Score: 0
  
  The government almost always seems to think what they're doing is moral and just.
  Almost everybody always seems to think that what they're doing is moral and just. Even if they cloak it under some idea of revenge for mistreatment, or dealing with the oppression of others. I've rarely seen anybody seriously go around cackling that they're doing something out of the wrongness of their heart, and when asked about some terrible act, you will usually find some reasoning behind it that puts them on the side of angels.
  Even those who would proclaim themselves libertine anarchists.
8. Re:Stop using the term "crackdown" by Ravaldy · 2016-04-01 04:16 · Score: 1
  
  Government, at it's best, is an intermediary to determine where one person's liberties end and another's begins
  It's about time someone said it.
  People tend to forget that we are all government and that the crazies in power come and go. We as voter hardly practice our rights to fight decisions made at our government that we in majority disagree with. There is no doubt our officials are trying to pull the rug from under us on some issues but until it's significant enough that the majority feels oppressed, the majority will remain inactive on the issues.
9. Re:Stop using the term "crackdown" by Anonymous Coward · 2016-04-01 05:04 · Score: 0
  
  The only role of government in a free society to is to protect the individual's liberty.
  that government won't have to worry about defending its borders or maintaining its infrastructure because the country will be a barren wasteland with no commerce, no roads, no bridges, no internet, no nuthin
10. Re:Stop using the term "crackdown" by KGIII · 2016-04-01 06:36 · Score: 1
  
  Umm... You know that there's more to history than America, right? It certainly predates the 1600s. I'm pretty sure we've been enslaving people for a lot longer than that. I'm gonna guess that we've been enslaving people since long before there was a concept of a central authority on a scale large enough to warrant calling it a lawful entity.
  You're usually a bit sharper than this.
  
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11. Re:Stop using the term "crackdown" by KGIII · 2016-04-01 06:38 · Score: 1
  
  LMFAO
  Umm... I'm 58. I think you can safely be ignored now. I should know better than to interact with ACs. Per capita, they're generally more stupid than the regular users. As such, you're dismissed. Have a nice day.
  
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12. Re:Stop using the term "crackdown" by roman_mir · 2016-04-01 06:43 · Score: 1
  
  I am precisely on point. You have had laws that were pro slavery. You had 'slave codes' no less. Without these laws in the American Republic you couldn't justify slavery. Slavery in the USA was 'justified' by using the Bible no less, a Christian could not enslave a Christian, so all that had to be worked around.
  Blacks in the America also owned property prior to 1600s, they also owned slaves, do you realise that? My point stands, you were saying that you needed laws to abolish slavery, I pointed out that you had laws that made slavery legal in the first place.
  Sure sure, slavery existed before laws existed on this planet and it wasn't America that started slavery obviously, slavery existed since we invented the first weapons I bet. However for whatever reason there was always a government involved in promoting and making slavery legal ever since governments existed on this planet as well.
  Making laws about abolishing slavery by governments that were the principle drivers of slavery since governments existed is a very dubious argument. I argue that governments have to treat people as equal under law and the criminal code, and criminal code can simply deal with slavery as with any other case of kidnapping and torture.
  
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13. Re:Stop using the term "crackdown" by KGIII · 2016-04-01 07:24 · Score: 1
  
  I concur which, oddly enough, gets me labeled as a ultra-conservative. I've yet to really figure that one out. I'm not even an anarchist, or even a minarchist. I'm actually pretty damned left on the spectrum and don't even mind reasonable taxation in return for reasonable services.
  
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14. Re:Stop using the term "crackdown" by KGIII · 2016-04-01 09:34 · Score: 1
  
  No, I'm pretty sure we've had slavery since Ogg was able to beat Ook into submission and then Ook gave half of his kill to Ogg to make sure Ogg didn't beat him any more. Of course, sometimes Ogg would still beat him, but that was just to prove a point and make sure Ook didn't forget who the boss was.
  The laws that exist, those that prohibit slavery, take away Ogg's liberty to take the output of Ook's labor. They're an example of a good law but also a good example of how almost every law (I am unable to think of exceptions) take away someone's liberties. This may, or may not, be a good thing but that doesn't change what laws do.
  
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I'm actually envious of the chinese by Karmashock · 2016-04-01 02:14 · Score: 2

... April fools.

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Re:coming soon to the USA by Anonymous Coward · 2016-04-01 02:16 · Score: 0

President Obama uses the IRS.
Finally something I can agree with by Anonymous Coward · 2016-04-01 02:16 · Score: 1

No Joke. April Fools' Day Has Been Banned In China
Finally the Chinese government does something I can get behind. Kudos China, for getting rid of the single stupidest, most annoying, and non-productive non-holiday of the year. May others follow.
1. Re:Finally something I can agree with by tsqr · 2016-04-01 09:11 · Score: 1
  
  No Joke. April Fools' Day Has Been Banned In China
  Finally the Chinese government does something I can get behind. Kudos China, for getting rid of the single stupidest, most annoying, and non-productive non-holiday of the year. May others follow.
  Yes, because we all want a government telling us when and where any attempt at humor is permitted.
Dr. Klahn is building an great army by NotDrWho · 2016-04-01 02:17 · Score: 3, Funny

His opposition to April Fool's Day is admirable. He has our gratitude.
Let's all give Dr. Klahn a big hand!

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1. Re:Dr. Klahn is building an great army by Progman3K · 2016-04-01 02:21 · Score: 1
  
  KLAHN!!!
  
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2. Re:Dr. Klahn is building an great army by Anonymous Coward · 2016-04-01 02:42 · Score: 0
  
  Just a note-
  If you can't speak Korean, watch the film with someone who does. There is a bunch of chatter in the background that adds to the film (including the fact most of the actors are Korean).
3. Re:Dr. Klahn is building an great army by GLMDesigns · 2016-04-01 03:25 · Score: 1
  
  Only a socialist would think that more government power would lead to individual freedom.
  
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4. Re:Dr. Klahn is building an great army by Anonymous Coward · 2016-04-01 03:40 · Score: 0
  
  Mod +101 Insightful!
5. Re:Dr. Klahn is building an great army by Anonymous Coward · 2016-04-01 04:07 · Score: 0
  
  Bong Soo Han (played Klahn) was an impressive martial artist. He visited my instructor (a Korean TKD master), who he had worked with during the Vietnam conflict training US special forces) in the 80's. It was funny and scary to see two people of that caliber palling around and joking about the good old days.
  Later when I read the Thomas Covenant books, it seemed that the Haruchai were drawn from these guys
6. Re:Dr. Klahn is building an great army by Anonymous Coward · 2016-04-01 05:42 · Score: 0
  
  Send you to... DETROIT!
7. Re:Dr. Klahn is building an great army by GLMDesigns · 2016-04-03 03:08 · Score: 1
  
  well said.
  
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They Weren't thinking about April Fools by tinkerton · 2016-04-01 02:20 · Score: 1

From the article it appears they just want to suppress any form of social activism. April Fools' day is the last thing on their mind. Now if they have such a tradition then it could become an accidental collateral victim if it's done through a website, but who says such a tradition exists?
1. Re:They Weren't thinking about April Fools by fbobraga · 2016-04-01 05:53 · Score: 1
  
  You believed it? Missed the "Mon Sep 9, 2013 6:02am EDT" from de linked article date?
2. Re:They Weren't thinking about April Fools by fbobraga · 2016-04-01 05:59 · Score: 1
  
  Sorry: I miss read your post :/
No joke, should be banned everywhere. by Anonymous Coward · 2016-04-01 02:24 · Score: 1

I'm tired of a whole day wasted trying to figure out the better jokes as to avoid unnecessary work after the stupid 1st of April jokes. It's old, and it's not fun, it's childish this is what children do and it's fun. How the fuck did media and adults start doing these childish things? Her on after I will call all people I know who do 1st of april jokes for old-children as calling them retards would be degrading to retards.
1. Re:No joke, should be banned everywhere. by halivar · 2016-04-01 03:21 · Score: 1
  
  You should put a sign on your yard to keep the kids off while you enjoy your Metamucil.
Re:coming soon to the USA by Feral+Nerd · 2016-04-01 02:26 · Score: 2

Donald Trump has already signaled his intentions to execute those who disagree with him
Calm yourself, CNN just reported that Donald Trump and his entire presidential campaign is the climax of a meticulously crafted and brilliantly planned April fools joke that has been 69 year in the making.
Online april fools jokes are lame by mark-t · 2016-04-01 02:40 · Score: 2

All of the fun of April fools' jokes is in getting one over on someone that you personally know. Duping people on the internet is like shooting fish in a barrel, and has no enjoyment factor, either for the joker or the person being deceived.

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Double standards by wonkey_monkey · 2016-04-01 02:41 · Score: 4, Funny

Xinhua announced on social media Friday
So they ban April Fools' Day but still celebrate Social Media Friday? What a country.

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1. Re:Double standards by Anonymous Coward · 2016-04-01 05:38 · Score: 0
  
  This tops my list annoying things Americans have done to the English language. Second is their apparent inability to distinguish between 'bring' and 'take'. Third is the always fun 'could care less'. Fourth is the array of annoying words they've added like 'doozy'. Fifth is that they call the toilet the bathroom, even when talking about public toilets which contain no bath!
  I've managed to work myself into a rage just thinking about things like, "President Obama said Tuesday..." He didn't say Tuesday, he said it on Tuesday! Stop butchering the English language!
2. Re:Double standards by the_povinator · 2016-04-01 05:44 · Score: 1
  
  Score:11. WTF? Your post wasn't that funny. Or has Slashdot made the scores binary today? Oh yes, I see they have. Ha ha.
  
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3. Re:Double standards by wonkey_monkey · 2016-04-01 09:17 · Score: 1
  
  Fourth is the array of annoying words they've added like 'doozy'.
  What about "lookit"?
  
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Ancient? by Anonymous Coward · 2016-04-01 02:43 · Score: 0

What Moses did this stupid shit too?
Banned on Slashdot too. by Anonymous Coward · 2016-04-01 02:45 · Score: 0

Thanks to all the anti-AF curmudgeons who want to remain in the comfort zone (probably the same folk who rant about DST, but only for the spring forward part).
I wish it was banned here too by The-Ixian · 2016-04-01 03:02 · Score: 2

China has the right idea.
"April Fool's Day" is an obnoxious tradition that I would not miss at all.

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1. Re:I wish it was banned here too by Anonymous Coward · 2016-04-01 03:15 · Score: 1
  
  It's one day a year to remind people to skeptically evaluate what they hear, especially in the news or on-line or wherever else people normally get their information. It makes an important point: it's much too easy to fool people with a plausible-sounding story when they aren't skeptical enough.
  I can see why a controlling government like China's wouldn't like the idea of setting aside one day a year when people are expected and encouraged to question what is said. I do not understand why anybody would think "China has the right idea". The real protection against rumors and falsehoods spreading easily is to have a skeptical, questioning public who doesn't immediately believe what they are told.
2. Re:I wish it was banned here too by Anonymous Coward · 2016-04-01 03:22 · Score: 0
  
  It doesn't teach anyone anything.
  The rest of the year they believe every fucking thing they read anyway.
3. Re:I wish it was banned here too by tsqr · 2016-04-01 09:23 · Score: 1
  
  China has the right idea.
  "April Fool's Day" is an obnoxious tradition that I would not miss at all.
  Tell me, do you want the government to outlaw practical jokes in general, or only the practice of performing them a particular day? Maybe you'd like the government to outlaw other things you find annoying as well, such as spelling and grammar errors? You should also let your Congressman know which end of an egg you think should be legal to open.
4. Re:I wish it was banned here too by cwsumner · 2016-04-01 11:03 · Score: 1
  
  There ought to be a law against people who say: There ought to be a law! 8-)
5. Re:I wish it was banned here too by Anonymous Coward · 2016-04-01 15:38 · Score: 0
  
  Publishing fake news is a hoax, not a practical joke.
Re:coming soon to the USA by Anonymous Coward · 2016-04-01 03:14 · Score: 0

He started it!
- The President of the United States of America
Best lirpa loof ever! by sbaker · 2016-04-01 03:15 · Score: 1

Congrats Xinhua! Almost had us all believing that one! :-)

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In communist China by Anonymous Coward · 2016-04-01 03:21 · Score: 0

In communist China you're a fool every day.
Re:coming soon to the USA by GLMDesigns · 2016-04-01 03:22 · Score: 1

link please

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Re:coming soon to the USA by Anonymous Coward · 2016-04-01 04:44 · Score: 0

Take that koch out of your mouth when ranting
The gop vilifies and lies about Dems to much that everything your say along those lines sounds like mindless drivel, which it is
Re:coming soon to the USA by Anonymous Coward · 2016-04-01 04:59 · Score: 0

look under "gullible losers take statements seriously"
Mainland China: NO FUN ALLOWED, EVER! by kheldan · 2016-04-01 05:35 · Score: 1

Is there even a Chinese word for the concept of 'fun'? Or has the Communist government there outlawed the word, too? I can just imagine hearing whatever Chinese State official it was reading this edict; it would probably sound like Charlie Browns' teacher, except in Mandarin.

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SlashDot Banned on April Fools Day in China by neoRUR · 2016-04-01 07:44 · Score: 1

I think the title was Slashdot Banned on Aprils Fools Day in China.
1. Re:SlashDot Banned on April Fools Day in China by Anonymous Coward · 2016-04-01 10:11 · Score: 0
  
  "The problem with rumors in China is that people believe them anyway because most people know that the ‘state media’ is nothing but an enormous firehose of steaming donkey shit." - Jeremiah Jenne
So what they're saying is by thisisauniqueid · 2016-04-01 10:51 · Score: 1

So what they're saying is that satire is dangerous in China -- it might disrupt government-imposed harmony.
Send and Drop Mike stupidity at Google by Anonymous Coward · 2016-04-01 10:57 · Score: 0

Google's April Fools was to add a confusing button to email "Send and Drop Mike".

Wasn't funny: Sending important emails but it was annoying and distracting and constantly worried I was going to hit it by mistake.

Dumb, Google. Worse: Dumb and unfunny.
Government conspiracy by cwsumner · 2016-04-01 11:00 · Score: 1

The whole April Fools Day thing is a government conspiracy!
They used propaganda, to convince people, to persecute the people who celebrated new years day on the old calender, where it was on April First.
Discrimination against minoritys pushed by the government it's self! They could have caused a genocide!
Of course, it was the government of King Gregor. About the 11th century CE. (I think...) 8-)
But still...
You are all pauns of the King. Look up, thou sheep!
(look it up)
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