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The censored one is probably Niger

UPDATE - special thanks to @dditty@lemm.ee for making a map showing the countries without access to PSN:

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[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 6 months ago (3 children)

why is one of them censored

[–] trafficnab@lemmy.ca 53 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Niger is close to a slur and is probably overwhelmingly used as a way to bypass filters as opposed to actually taking about the African country

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 6 months ago (1 children)

what a funny way to racism other people. "you're just like a random country from that one place in the world"

[–] Silentiea@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Tbf, the racists wouldn't see a shred of irony in that statement.

probably fair lmao

[–] absentbird@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

That makes a lot of sense, that's exactly where it would be in the alphabetical list too.