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China Censors Online Discussion About Panama Papers (bbc.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from BBC: China appears to be censoring social media posts on the Panama Papers document leak which has named several members of China's elite, including President Xi Jinping's brother-in-law. Hundreds of posts on networks such as Sina Weibo and Wechat on the topic have been deleted since Monday morning. According to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), the Panama Papers show that Mr. Deng acquired two offshore companies in 2009, at a time when Mr. Xi was rising in politics. State media appeared to black out the news. But many on microblogging network Sina Weibo and mobile chat network Wechat were discussing the topic on Monday morning, sharing Chinese translations of details of the story, including information on Mr. Deng. A hashtag created on the topic quickly trended. Checks by the BBC found that by the end of the day many of those posts had disappeared, with at least 481 discussions deleted from the hashtag's Weibo topic page, and other posts shared on Wechat also deleted. The website Freeweibo.com, which actively tracks censorship on Weibo, listed "Panama" as the second-most censored term on the network.
LOL.
Obama lectures us like a pious college professor about inequality/Islam and yet he stashes his loot in off shore banks. I bet Hillary does the same shit, and /,'ers will vote for her none the less.
This is precisely why shit never changes. You poseurs vote for the same D / R people in ever election.
Vote for Sanders or Jill Stein or the communist person or whatever. Anyone other than D / R.
No, it won't. China will simply call the papers a handiwork of western forces to undermine China. It will call the papers as baseless and fabricated. Nevertheless they will promise to investigate the issue further. Pause for a few months. The issue will be forgotten. Things will be as they were. Things like 'blowing up' happen in the west. Not so in the east. The west tries to advocate and follow democracy. The east tries to advocate and follow corruption. Corruption can buy corruption.
"Blowing up" doesn't happen in the West anymore, either. Have you seen any reaction to the Wikileaks Cable affair? The Snowden files? Nothing. No riots. No boycotts. No calls for resignations. People are too busy worrying about their next meal - not what it will be but IF it will be - to protest. And protesting would only jeopardize what little they have to hold on to. It's over. They could release a video on corporate CEOs and heads of state feasting on human babies' ribs and nobody would do anything. It's not that people do not care: they just understand they're powerless and acting (or rather, not-acting) accordingly.
You do understand that using violence to impose freedom defeats the values protected by the very freedom?
>China has been surprisingly open WRT to the Panama Papers
What are you talking about? This is an article about China censoring those papers. That is kind of the opposite of being "surprisingly open".
Very simple, they have their money in Delaware, and because when they put your money there, they didn't have to go through some Panama based company, and hence, they are not on the list.