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The censored one is probably Niger

UPDATE - special thanks to @[email protected] for making a map showing the countries without access to PSN:

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[–] [email protected] 52 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

[–] [email protected] 26 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"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

probably fair lmao

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

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