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Perhaps to the dismay of the censorious, it is also instructional.

The West can be just as censorious as China, he said Tuesday.

Beauchamp portrays this as a fight between Christian conservatives and "Barstool conservatives," who he describes as dude-bros less interested in Jesus and more in hating "what they see as censorious political correctness."

"We cannot stress enough how these censorious efforts will not end with book bans," the open letter states.

Even as other spaces for public expression have shrunk under Mr Xi's increasingly censorious regime, stand-up comedy has thrived, allowing young people to take a light-hearted view of their joys and frustrations.