There is also a Reddit thread that lists all the words banned on the Taiwanese server. The word 'Uyghur' in both English and Mandarin has been uncensored.
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He posted a screen record of his findings to Twitter, which shows him trying to set a status using the word ‘Uyghur’ and the screen resetting itself after.Īs of today, a series of tests by Hansen show that the words mentioned above, as well as "falun gong" (the name of a banned religion/cult in China) and "RFA" (Radio Free Asia, a United States government-funded news organisation in Asia) are also blocked when written in English. “I logged in myself and attempted to set my user status to ‘Uyghur,’ it reset itself to being empty within a few seconds,” he told VICE. Peter Hansen, who goes by on Twitter, investigated the censorship of words on the game himself. “I just tried this and interestingly enough uyghurs isn't filtered but uyghur is,” user yuj808 said. Other "League of Legends" gamers on the subreddit thread checked themselves and reported that they experienced the same thing. Over the past two years, the Chinese government has come under international scrutiny for placing an estimated 1 million Muslim Uighurs in so-called "re-education camps." VICE undercover investigations released in June found that the Chinese government uses surveillance technology to spy on the Muslim minority in Xinjiang, as well as taking children separated from their families to be raised by the state. It's a legitimate word of a legitimate ethnic group, but Tencent-owned League is so sensitive about covering up the ongoing genocide of the Uyghur people that they won't even let you use the word.” “Try changing your status message to Uyghur. In the since removed thread from yesterday (archive can be found here), the user said: The spotlight on the issue started after Reddit user ResplendentShade posted about the censorship on the r/leagueoflegends subreddit.
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