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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: [...]"
Sources:
China's web censors go into overdrive as President Xi Jinping consolidates power
China censorship after Xi Jinping presidency extension proposal
(Score: 2, Troll) by realDonaldTrump on Wednesday February 28 2018, @02:27PM (1 child)
There was a Radical Islamic Priest, this guy was American. But he left America, very foolish move. Because Obama "droned" him. And "droned" his family, the children. I always say, we need to go after the families. But not that way. Not that way. Obama "droned" so many folks in the Middle East. And ISIS loved it. They recruited so many people that way. From the Internet, from everywhere. But our alt-left, what did they do? For my Inauguration, they held a very big demonstration. The biggest demonstration in history. But they didn't celebrate. Obama stepped down, nobody thought he would really step down. And I was inaugurated, finally there was a leader who LISTENS to the American people. Who puts America First. They could have celebrated that, so many people celebrated. We set a record there, big celebration. You wouldn't know it, from the Fake News media. But so many protesters. Like they wanted Obama to stay. To be President for Life. Like they don't want the DULY ELECTED President to come in. Like they wanted ISIS to get more and more powerful. Like they didn't care about all the Americans that Obama "droned."
President Duterte, terrific guy, I read some terrific things about him. And I met him, he did not disappoint. He has a big problem with drugs. And so many drug dealers, he moved very strongly on them. And gave them VERY QUICK justice. And maybe it's Due Process, maybe it's not Due Process. But it's very quick. And they're very dead. It's quick and they're dead. Very smart! But our Fake News media hate him. They hate him because he's been VERY SUCCESSFUL.
It would be terrific if we did that, if we had something like that. With Due Process, 100%. But where we go after those drug dealers, we kill them. We have a death penalty, right? And we have a very big problem with drugs, I call it the opioid epidemic. It's not a national emergency. But it's very bad. We need to move very strongly, much more strongly. Maybe on the users. But on the dealers. Maybe, probably, the doctors, so many doctors are dealers. And our great pharma industry, people are saying they did some very crooked things to sell the opioids. So we round them up, we put them on trial. And if they're guilty, I want us to have the death penalty. For all the drug dealers. Due Process. But I want it very quick, I want to move very strongly and quickly on the drug dealers. Like President Duterte has. But with Due Process, very important. Not a witch hunt.
What China did, very smart move. They saw that President Xi is doing a great job. And they said, "let's REPEAL the Term Limits." Because Term Limits -- people don't know this -- it's the same rule for a good President or a bad one. The clock runs out, he has to leave office. Or he's breaking the rules. But China, they got a very good President, maybe the best they ever had. And they say, this is a VERY DUMB rule. Because there's no exceptions. So they got rid of the rule.
We have a rule like that, it's called the 22nd Amendment. And now that I've taken office, now that -- for the first time -- we have a President who puts America First, more and more people are saying, let's REPEAL that one. So I can serve a third term. I have some very big plans -- the biggest -- and 8 years isn't much time. @RepealThe22nd [twitter.com]
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 28 2018, @02:28PM
A gentle reminder of a line I heard in a movie once: "Out here, due process is a bullet."