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Tsinghua law professor who criticized Xi Jinping barred from leaving China

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Re: Tsinghua law professor who criticized Xi Jinping barred from leaving China

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Post by superkuh »

theandrewbailey wrote: post #7
superkuh wrote: post #5

Anyone have a copy of the text of the article? The page itself doesn't include the article and only shows empty gray bars to tease the reader. I'm unable to get the javascript to execute and fill it in no matter what browser I use.

Maybe try the AMP version? https://amp.inkstonenews.com/politics/law-professor-xu-zhang...

Thanks. That did it once I disabled CSS to clear their page blocking div. Here's a copy of the article text that doesn't require even that for anyone that is having trouble like I did: https://write.as/uiejj79fq4vxv.md

Re: Tsinghua law professor who criticized Xi Jinping barred from leaving China

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Post by 0815test »

duxup wrote: post #4

>But online, Xu himself has been virtually erased. >Searches for his name return no result on the Twitter-like Weibo. Any mention of him in the past year has been scrubbed from Baidu, a popular search engine. The speed that they can digitally make someone's name unusable is pretty scary. And this is just for being publicly critical.

How do you say "de-platform" in Chinese?

Re: Tsinghua law professor who criticized Xi Jinping barred from leaving China

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Post by NicoJuicy »

ausjke wrote: post #8

this is truly an embarrassment

Euh, Xi is probably more educated than a lot of Western leaders. Considering the books on his shelve about machine learning/A.I. and his actions ( I do not condone/like them, but I don't underestimate him).

At least he's not spending halve of the day watching Fox and being mad on Twitter.

Edit: OP claimed things about Xi not being educated. Changed his comment without appropriate edit text...

Re: Tsinghua law professor who criticized Xi Jinping barred from leaving China

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Post by 2bitencryption »

duxup wrote: post #4

>But online, Xu himself has been virtually erased. >Searches for his name return no result on the Twitter-like Weibo. Any mention of him in the past year has been scrubbed from Baidu, a popular search engine. The speed that they can digitally make someone's name unusable is pretty scary. And this is just for being publicly critical.

Europe: "Citizens have the right to be forgotten."

China: "We can and will make you forgotten."

Re: Tsinghua law professor who criticized Xi Jinping barred from leaving China

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Post by Consultant32452 »

0815test wrote: post #12
duxup wrote: post #4

>But online, Xu himself has been virtually erased. >Searches for his name return no result on the Twitter-like Weibo. Any mention of him in the past year has been scrubbed from Baidu, a popular search engine. The speed that they can digitally make someone's name unusable is pretty scary. And this is just for being publicly critical.

How do you say "de-platform" in Chinese?

You'd better not.

Re: Tsinghua law professor who criticized Xi Jinping barred from leaving China

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Post by Bayart »

debt wrote: post #10

This is alarming. I think these kind of one-off things can feel somewhat boring or unimportant if it were some very underdeveloped tiny country with a small population. But we're talking about a country with 1.5B people and a very sophisticated technology sector, a powerful military and a modern economy starting to act like a dictatorship.

Starting ? China has always been a dictatorship. Now it's also a technologically driven one. Although you could say that materialistic ideologies have always been acutely aware of technical means. See Curzio Malaparte's Technique Of Revolution .
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