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.
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?
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.
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
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.
Sure Chinese Japanophiles maybe got in this crossfire but that's life. ordinary Russians like me get affected by sanctions even though we hate Putler and sometimes we get hurt in ways that cannot be worked around by just using VPN. If everything was just business as usual for ordinary people many of them probably would not even think about the war but now it is an issue impossible to hide
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.