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The whole “chinese government censored skeletons” shit is false. It’s self censorship by the companies because chinese culture includes a lot of superstitions, and it would be unprofitable to offend your market. Western gamers got upset at Ubisoft for removing blood from China’s Rainbow 6 release, but the government never mandated it and it was Ubisoft’s decision lol.
You can see examples of superstitions having some influence on government decisions, though. In one video about pharmaceutical drug price negotiations, the government official insists that the company lowers the offered price because the number references death which is bad luck which may lead to people avoiding an otherwise life saving drug.
I saw that video of the drug price negotiation and it seemed to me more like he was just a really good negotiator than actually superstitious