China is putting its weight behind North Korea by censoring insults of Kim Jong Un

• Chinese tech companies are censoring phrases considered to be insulting to Kim Jong Un.
• The term "Fatty Kim the Third" appears to be blocked on Weibo and Baidu, while "Fatty on the Train," "Prosperous Fat," and "Kim the Third Pig" have been censored.
• Blocking the terms seems to have occurred days ahead of Kim's Tuesday summit with President Donald Trump.
• To get around regular censorship, Chinese internet users have gotten creative with the terms they use.

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China appears to be censoring searches of words and phrases insulting to Kim Jong Un ahead of the US-North Korea summit on Tuesday.

Business Insider discovered the term "Fatty Kim the Third" appears to have been censored on both microblogging site Weibo and Chinese search engine Baidu. When the characters 金三胖 (pronounced Jin San Pang) are searched on these platforms, no results come up, despite dozens of articles being listed earlier in the year.

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