@barray on Sat Aug 07 06:05:27 UTC 2021 said: &eFor example, I remember a #phd #student in #nz that shared "stories" with an #administrator - they were pretty weird. It wasn't malicious or threatening in any way, just weird. The Administrator then requested that they not go near them, an almost #injunction against the student which was enforced by the #university . And this literally had no #politics attached.Something about this story still doesn't make sense: https://www.nzz.ch/english/swiss-phd-stu.. Don't get me wrong, I'm one of the first to get #critical about #china 's #ccp - but something about this #swiss #phd student getting removed from their PhD seems strange. Also I highly suspect that the #supervisor had something to do with the #termination ... I'm still waiting to see actual emails before making judgement.
You know something bad has happened when the #university pre-emptively email you offering #student #care ... Zero details so far, but this seems like it will be difficult for them to avoid talking about. Whatever it is was serious enough to email about on the *same day* as the incident and just before end of day. I'll be looking out in the news...
#twitter restricted the account of #nz 's #university of #canterbury academic staff member #annemariebrady for mocking #china 's #ccp leader #xijinping https://www.lotuseaters.com/twitter-rest.. And this is ultimately the problem with #nz and its dependence on #china for trade - such scenarios will continue to happen.