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

  • 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: