The animal kingdom used to question the Great Firewall of China

Who said Chinese bloggers are happy with the country’s insanely tight web censorship?

Famous amateur film-maker, Hu Ge, has recently made a new satirical piece on the Internet censorship in China. The 7-minute piece, ”˜Animal World: the Home-living Animal’ is styled as an animal-planet type of documentary and has attracted hundreds of thousands of views in a matter of a few days. The piece presents to the audience the so-called ”˜home-living animals’, who are in fact China’s tens of millions of netizens.

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