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Rumor has it 56 simply burned through their funding and is using the government as a nice excuse to close shop. Someone wise once said something to the effect of: Don't attribute to malice what can be attributed to stupidity.


Surely when you're dealing with the Chinese censorship authorities, attributing everything to malice is usually a pretty reasonable approach?


Paraphrasing Grey's Law... sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice.




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