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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: [...]"
Sources:
China's web censors go into overdrive as President Xi Jinping consolidates power
China censorship after Xi Jinping presidency extension proposal
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 28 2018, @07:33PM
Both Japan's modernization, and Japan's intervention in WW2 were both thanks to US attacks on their autonomy.
First during the Opening of Japan by forcing them to open trade with the US, then again during WW2 by cutting off the oil shipments they needed for their war effort against the surrounding Asian States and Russia. One could daresay the modernized Japan capable of its conflicts between the 1860s and WW2 were directly spurred by the US Opening, because prior to it their xenophobia and travel restrictions kept Japanese from travelling to America for education. Go read up on it, the big surge in American based education in Japan was directly a result of American intervention in Japan, leading up to Admiral Yamamoto's warning about coming into conflict with them during WW2... himself an American collegiate graduate.
American Foreign Policy has been responsible for a *LOT* more damage than most people are aware of, and almost as much comparatively as the rest of European expeditionary activities from the 1400s to 1900s.