‘Uncle Roger’ jokes about China’s surveillance state, Beijing makes him ‘disappear’
1 min readBy India Today World Desk: A Malaysian comedian, who posts motion pictures beneath the persona ‘Uncle Roger,’ was banned from China’s Twitter-like social media platform only a few days after he printed clips from a dwell current on Beijing’s carefully censored politics and Chinese chief Xi Jinping.
He predicted his jokes about China’s surveillance state would land him in problem and begged the Chinese Communist Party to not “make him disappear.”
Nigel Ng posted a trailer of his new current on Twitter last week with the caption “Uncle Roger about to get canceled”.
By Saturday, Nigel’s account on China’s extraordinarily censored Weibo platform — a Twitter-like platform in China — had been barred from creating new posts, CNN reported.
A message on the internet web page acknowledged Ng was blocked “due to the violation of relevant laws and regulations,” nonetheless gave no further particulars.
Ng’s full stand-up current is scheduled for a launch on June 4, which is the anniversary of the bloody 1989 crackdown on democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square, which is a extraordinarily delicate date in China.
