China has a long and proud history of banning anything that's even a little bit fun or cool. "Back to the Future," for instance, was banned in China. Why? Because time travel as a concept was deemed subversive enough that it might encourage citizens to reappraise the country's own history — I'm not kidding. China is so censorship happy that they even temporarily banned something as innocuous as "The Big Bang Theory," this time on the grounds that, well... the government never really clarified. Look, I'm not all that opposed to the idea of banning "The Big Bang Theory" outright, but it's the principle that matters here. China's government exerts control over art; you know, the thing that allows people to express their individuality and capture the imaginations of others, thereby bringing us all a little closer together? Yeah, China likes to ban that.

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