It very clearly sets it to display = block the line after, if you ran a normal browser.
It's... certainly one way to make sure your site only works with JS enabled.
China's Xinjiang surveillance is the dystopian future nobody wants
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#12It very clearly sets it to display = block the line after, if you ran a normal browser.
Yes, but in a flippin tag. Is this to weed out the readers who don't have JavaScript enabled?
Luckily Links2 supports neither JavaScript nor CSS. People in China should start using that, as to not take part in The Great Cannon.
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#13I'm pretty sure that's exactly what the Chinese authorities want. What everyone else wants isn't their concern.
they actually have a very tense, tenuous relationship with their citeznry and its propensity for public demonstrations that keep the government in line. there is a breaking point they know they have to avoid.
> The number of annual protests has grown steadily since the early 1990s, from approximately 8700 “mass group incidents” in 1993[1] to over 87,000 in 2005.[2] In 2006, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences estimated the number of annual mass incidents to exceed 90,000, and Chinese sociology professor Sun Liping estimated 180,000 incidents in 2010.[3][4] Mass incidents are defined broadly as "planned or impromptu gathering that forms because of internal contradictions", and can include public speeches or demonstrations, physical clashes, public airings of grievances, and other group behaviors that are seen as disrupting social stability.
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#14>> For the next 10 months, web access would be almost nonexistent in Xinjiang, a vast region larger than Texas with a population of more than 20 million. It was one of the most widespread, longest internet shutdowns ever. SpaceX's plans to launch their first set of satellites for their Starlink broadband constellation[1]. Uighers may be the first population to sign up for satellite subscriptions, although the Chinese…
I can already see the antennas being harmonized into scrap metal.
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#15>> For the next 10 months, web access would be almost nonexistent in Xinjiang, a vast region larger than Texas with a population of more than 20 million. It was one of the most widespread, longest internet shutdowns ever. SpaceX's plans to launch their first set of satellites for their Starlink broadband constellation[1]. Uighers may be the first population to sign up for satellite subscriptions, although the Chinese…
>Uighers may be the first population to sign up for satellite subscriptions
I doubt most people there are willing to pay a significant premium for uncensored internet. And this is assuming that the government doesn't ban/crack down on "illegal" satellite internet.
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#16It very clearly sets it to display = block the line after, if you ran a normal browser.
While logfromblammo's response is kind of immature (and this probably isn't the right thread to voice that concern in), I sort of agree. It sets it to display: block in javascript, meaning the page is unusable if you're blocking scripts for performance/tracking reasons.
I tested the page with javascript disabled and manually set the html element back to display: block and it renders just fine.
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#18How on earth can this be flagged on "hacker" news?
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#19Unrelated, but I'm always amazed when I hear about these massive Chinese cities for the first time. Apparently Urumqi has a population of 3.5 million.
Re: China's Xinjiang surveillance is the dystopian future nobody wants
#20>> For the next 10 months, web access would be almost nonexistent in Xinjiang, a vast region larger than Texas with a population of more than 20 million. It was one of the most widespread, longest internet shutdowns ever. SpaceX's plans to launch their first set of satellites for their Starlink broadband constellation[1]. Uighers may be the first population to sign up for satellite subscriptions, although the Chinese…
> Uighers may be the first population to sign up for satellite subscriptions If they can at all. Uighers can't even buy a knife without it being engraved with a QR code of their national ID number.
I recently traveled to China and went to a fairly remote area dominated by Uyghurs and didn't see anything that would indicate that level of oppression.
They seemed quite free to do what they wanted to between themselves (such as buying a knife) although I imagine their political rights wouldn't be very strong.