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posted by janrinok on Tuesday February 27 2018, @06:39PM   Printer-friendly
from the the-truth-is-what-we-say-it-is dept.

TechCrunch:

"China's web scrubbers have been busy banning a collection of terms and dropping the hammer on user accounts after the Xi Jinping, the country's premier, got the all-clear to become 'President For Life' after the Communist Party moved to amend the constitution to remove an article that limits Presidential terms to two five-year terms."

BBC:

"The comments remaining on the popular Sina Weibo microblog are mostly monosyllabic statements from users simply say they "like" or "approve" the amendments.

They are likely to be from China's "50 Cent Party" - a nickname coined for internet commentators who are paid small amounts to post messages supporting the government's position.

Some posts have attracted thousands of comments - but only a few are available to view. This is traditionally indicative of online censorship by government administrators. "

China Digital Times:

"Following state media's announcement, censorship authorities began work to limit online discussion. CDT Chinese editors found the following terms blocked from being posted on Weibo: [...]"

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 27 2018, @06:54PM (7 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 27 2018, @06:54PM (#644720)

    But I am much more interested in hearing how the circumvention efforts are panning out. I want to hear politicians expressing frustration, not propaganda.

  • (Score: 1) by Sulla on Tuesday February 27 2018, @06:55PM

    by Sulla (5173) on Tuesday February 27 2018, @06:55PM (#644721) Journal

    Follow the China Digital Times link and check out the site, it tends to have some pretty interesting articles on that subject.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by bob_super on Tuesday February 27 2018, @07:06PM (4 children)

    by bob_super (1357) on Tuesday February 27 2018, @07:06PM (#644728)

    > more interested in hearing how the circumvention efforts are panning out

    Result of those efforts: Xi will be president for as long as he wants.

    Oh, you meant the censorship? Grumblers will be kept near the noise floor, and time and human nature will conspire to make the change into the new normal.
    Very few people's lives are actually affected by which bureaucrat is at the top, as long as the decisions he makes are sensible.

    • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 27 2018, @08:20PM (3 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 27 2018, @08:20PM (#644766)

      Very few people's lives are actually affected by which bureaucrat is at the top, as long as the decisions he makes are sensible.

      Which is exactly the problem; no sensible bureaucrat would want to sit at the top till death claimed him. In every case known to history, sense was first to depart. While the body stayed behind to do the damage.

      • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 27 2018, @08:56PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 27 2018, @08:56PM (#644794)

        ...or was that all just an act? [google.com]

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      • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday February 27 2018, @11:18PM (1 child)

        by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday February 27 2018, @11:18PM (#644859) Journal

        sensible bureaucrat

        Ha!

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        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 28 2018, @12:51AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 28 2018, @12:51AM (#644899)

          Oxymoron [google.com]

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 27 2018, @07:16PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 27 2018, @07:16PM (#644739)
    In my limited dealings in China, they have been cracking down hard on VPN for about the last year. But the restriction was only for individuals so business was a valid excuse as far as I have seen, thus it didn't effect us other than warnings that if they were for personal use they were verboten. The weirder one was they shut down our internet connection entirely because we have domains that resolved to our IP which they hadn't approved, and were happy to turn us back on once we removed the offending DNS entries.

    In other words, it looks like despite more pressure on visible and obvious enforcement, they are so focused on the ignorant masses, it looks like intelligent users won't be much slowed still.