British professor / Shakespearean 'protest' cut by Chinese censors
anecdote · personal/autobiographical ·
retold in 3 talks
A British literature professor in China was flirting by phone using 'I protest my love for you' (Shakespearean usage of 'protest' = declare). Chinese censors' keyword system flagged 'protest' near the Tiananmen anniversary and cut the call, missing sexual content but catching Shakespeare.
As told 2
“he said I protest my love for you... the control thought protest reference to Tiananmen the conversation was immediately cut off”
“He wrote to her using a phrase in Shakespeare... 'I protest my love for you.' His message was blocked. If he were to say, 'I want to screw the brain out of you'... it would have been okay.”
What it carries
one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)
contents · one story, 2 jobsuses
surveillance capitalism
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non-freedom experienced as radical freedom
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Its cast and sources
populated by
Pippa Malmgren1Aung San Suu Kyi1Laura Poitras1Roger Waters1Christopher Lasch1Carlo Ginzburg1Otto F. Kernberg1James Harvey1
alongside works
Every retelling 2
A British literature professor in China was flirting by phone using 'I protest my love for you' (Shakespearean usage of 'protest' = declare). Chinese censors' keyword system flagged 'protest' near the Tiananmen anniversary and cut the call, missing sexual content but catching Shakespeare., illustrating stupidity of control,surveillance capitalism
An English professor in China, flirting with a woman using the Elizabethan sense of 'protest' ('I protest my love for you'), had his message blocked by automated Tiananmen censorship, while explicit sexual language would have passed., illustrating censorship by keyword,ideology,non-freedom experienced as radical freedom