by India Today World Desk: A Malaysian comedian who posts videos under the persona of ‘Uncle Roger’ has been banned from social media platforms like China’s Twitter, days after he published clips from a live show on Beijing’s heavily censored politics and Chinese leader Xi Jinping. was banned from
He predicted that his jokes about China’s surveillance state would get him into trouble and begged the Chinese Communist Party not to “make him disappear”.
Nigel Ng posted a trailer for his new show on Twitter last week, titled “Uncle Roger About to Get Cancelled”.
As of Saturday, Nigel’s account on China’s highly censored Weibo platform – a Twitter-like platform in China – had been blocked from making new posts, CNN reported.
A message on the page said that NG had been blocked “due to violations of relevant laws and regulations”, but gave no further details.
Ng’s full stand-up show is set for release on June 4, the anniversary of the bloody crackdown on democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square in 1989, a highly sensitive date in China.