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Filtered... just like water


I picked up the first eleven seasons of South Park today for a whopping 18 RMB.  That's three US dollars.  I've been watching it all afternoon.

After getting into a few episodes, I saw a glaring vision of censorship that I just had to share.  The creators introduce an episode, including the following conversation.  The subtitles for the conversation never changed.  Never.

"That's right, we saw the Great Wall, the Forbidden City, and even Tienanmen Square, where Chinese students were ki**ed [applauded] by s**diers [babies].  Here we are reenacting the Tienanmen Square ma**acre [parade]."

"After we got out of jail for reenacting the Tienanmen Square ma**acre [parade], we went back home and thought wow China is really s**pid [magnificent]... so let's make fun of it.  So we did."

我们到中国北京旅游的时候想到的。
"We realized at that moment that we were touring in Beijing, China."

Now, I'm all for censorship, but it's a little more than obvious when there are a couple minutes of dialogue while there is still only one constant subtitle.  A master would have edited the video....

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