The Solomon Islands is moving step by step towards autocracy. Now it has announced it will ban foreign journalists based on what they write.

"Racial profiling" means applying laws to people in a prejudiced way based on their race. A central part of that unjust practice is that the person acting has real, direct power over others. To apply the term to journalists' writing, even racist writing, is twisting its meaning.

Racial profiling can't be seen directly in one instance; it takes a set of instances to see such a pattern, and then it's a judgment call. To use this as a criterion to admit or exclude a journalist makes no sense — unless it's simply an excuse for arbitrary censorship.

The movement towards autocracy began when the government made a "security" deal with China. I suspect that is no coincidence.