On December 17, Reuters reported that Amazon CN (China's Amazon domain) was forced to disable the reviews on Xi Jinping's 'The Governance of China', citing 2 anonymous sources.
https://archive.md/LRd27

:reddit-logo: interpreted the article to say that China has forced American Amazon to delete any reviews of the book that are less than 5 stars, only keeping the 5 star reviews.
https://archive.md/ah4Wn
https://archive.md/teepA

Since the publication of the article, there have been dozens of fake 1 star reviews posted on 'The Governance of China' on American Amazon.
https://archive.md/tcsWu
https://archive.md/T0Waa

  • CTHlurker [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Most internet activism is pure cringe. Honestly don't think the Mei thing would have happened if not for Blizzard absolutely panicking and punishing that dweeb at the Heathstone Tournament. Don't even know if Blizzard would have been punished by China for allowing him to announce his support for the protests.

    • WeedReference420 [he/him, they/them]
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      3 years ago

      Yeah, it did seem like a bit of a knee-jerk thing on Blizzard's part. At least it led to the hilarity of a bunch of nerds deleting their Blizzard accounts and then immediately regretting it :data-laughing:

      • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Also one of their largest markets is the Chinese market and it turns out a lot of mainland Chinese people actually agree with the government positions and upsetting them would lose Blizzard way more users than upsetting a few terminally online Americans with zero political or historical literacy.