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Re:Tokyo University Used "Tiananmen Square" Keyword to Block... by throwaway290 on Sunday December 08, 2024 @02:17PM (#42359554)
Think again what's happening.

If this whole thing is true then this is not evidence that anyone at Tokyo uni stops Chinese students from applying. But it is evidence that CCP stops them. By not loading Tokyo uni's site.

Re:Tokyo University Used "Tiananmen Square" Keyword to Block... by layer8 on Sunday December 08, 2024 @02:25PM (#42359642)
It is very well known that China blocks access to sites containing that term, there has been overwhelming evidence for many years.

What reason could there conceivably be for including that term into a meta tag of a thematically unrelated website, other than to trigger the well-known blocking of access from China?

Re:Tokyo University Used "Tiananmen Square" Keyword to Block... by gopher_space on Sunday December 08, 2024 @03:41PM (#42360240)
The fact that you can eliminate an entire country from the conversation due to their politics, just by including a place name on a website, is *hilarious*. This is something that would be amusing to just do, no matter the target.

To be clear, if you could remove someone's internet connection by emailing them a picture of Winnie the Pooh, that's all every junior would be doing with their free time. It's too stupid of a situation to leave alone.

I'm not about to be burdened by the ramifications of other people living under that much control. Part of being inside a shitty system is that it's going to suck for you.

Re:Tokyo University Used "Tiananmen Square" Keyword to Block... by throwaway290 on Sunday December 08, 2024 @07:59PM (#42362153)
People were inserting "Ukraine" or "BLM" or whatever on tons of thematically unrelated sites

Some would say not doing something to combat a problem is supporting a problem. Maybe some people think that state-induced amnesia is a problem. "nothing interesting happened in 1989"

> well-known blocking of access from China

it is not well known even for me who been to China a few times that China defeated HTTPS required to read the text of a website to determine whether it contains forbidden terms. I only knew that their censors maintained a blocklist

Re:Tokyo University Used "Tiananmen Square" Keyword to Block... by zaik on Sunday December 08, 2024 @03:21PM (#42360072)
It's about the intention of who inserted that keyword into the page.
Re:Tokyo University Used "Tiananmen Square" Keyword to Block... by throwaway290 on Sunday December 08, 2024 @07:49PM (#42362113)
"remembering the victims of Tiananmen massacre" is an intention that has nothing to do with student admissions
Re:Tokyo University Used "Tiananmen Square" Keyword to Block... by zaik on Sunday December 08, 2024 @09:05PM (#42362465)
Yes, I'm sure the intention was remembering the victims of the Tiananmen massacre when they put it in a non-visible part of the HTML of a student admission webpage.
Re:Tokyo University Used "Tiananmen Square" Keyword to Block... by throwaway290 on Monday December 09, 2024 @03:20AM (#42364034)
Yes?