Twitter locks Chinese embassy’s account over tweet about Uighur women
Twitter locks Chinese embassy’s account over tweet about Uighur women
CNBC ^ | 01/21/2021 | Saheli Roy Choudhury
Posted on 01/20/2021 9:09:10 PM PST by cockroach_magoo
Twitter said it locked the account of China’s embassy in the United States over a tweet about Uighur women that violated company policy against dehumanization.
The Chinese Embassy account, @ChineseEmbinUS, tweeted this month that Uighur women had been emancipated by government policy from being “baby making machines.” The tweet cited a study reported by state-controlled newspaper China Daily, Reuters reported.
“We’ve taken action on the Tweet … for violating our policy against dehumanization, where it states: We prohibit the dehumanization of a group of people based on their religion, caste, age, disability, serious disease, national origin, race, or ethnicity,” a Twitter spokesperson told CNBC in a statement.
The ethnic Uighurs, a Muslim minority living in western China, have been repressed by the Chinese government for years, according to the United Nations, United States and United Kingdom.
China has repeatedly denied mistreatment of the Uighurs, most recently on Wednesday when its Foreign Ministry angrily responded to former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s characterization of Uighur policy as “genocide.”
Twitter removed the tweet and replaced it with a label stating it was no longer available.
The social media giant’s terms of service states that tweets that violate its policies are hidden, and the accounts are either locked or some features are temporarily limited. Users have to manually delete the tweets in question if they want the account to be fully restored.
The account for the Chinese embassy in the U.S. last tweeted on Jan. 9.
The Chinese embassy in the U.S. did not immediately respond to CNBC’s emailed request for comments sent outside regular office hours.
Earlier this month, Twitter permanently suspended President Donald Trump’s account. The company said that decision was made “due to the risk of further incitement of violence.”
Twitter — along with Facebook and Google — is banned in China.
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bidenvoters; china; twitter; uighurs
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I still won’t visit Twitter, but I will follow relevant developments.
To: cockroach_magoo
Took them two weeks to take action against CCP while when they were dealing with President Trump, it took them hours.
To: cockroach_magoo
Big Tech is fighting a multi-front war for control of speech and thought—those never seem to end well….just ask Adolph.
:-)
To: cockroach_magoo
Guess they haven’t heard John Brennan’s recent proclamation, is he on Trotter?
To: cgbg
I suspect that Twit-land is tossing human beings a bone. They are either reptilians or misanthropic sellouts to the Green Globalist agenda.
To: cockroach_magoo
I do wonder how much Twitter tracks me.
A Gab phone would rock!
To: cockroach_magoo
There are plenty of Maoist Feminazis who voice the same hatred against womb parasites.
Twitter needs to face up to the dehumanizing rhetoric of the pro-abortion movement. Margaret Sanger herself was against women choosing life.
To: cockroach_magoo
Serves to hide ChiCom’s nature from the general populace.
Twitter acting as their press agent.
To: cockroach_magoo
Twitter is all for promoting genocide of the Ulgurs
To: MinorityRepublican
To: cockroach_magoo
How noble of them to show a sense of morality and ethics now. Not. Too late, Jack, you’ve sealed your legacy.
To: cockroach_magoo
Cue “Uighur Women”, sung to the tune of
“Evil Woman” by ELO.
To: cockroach_magoo
To: cockroach_magoo
I am no friend of the CCP, but I don’t understand Twitter locking an account over that particular tweet.
Regards,
To: cockroach_magoo
The Chicoms liberated Urighur women from being “baby making machines”. And that was censored?
Dorsey needs to be careful because the Democrats only want one side censored. Liberation from “baby making” sounds a whole lot like “women’s right to choose”. Progressives appreciate and respect China’s ability to liberate and educated the unwashed masses.
Dorsey should censor Christians protesting…oh that’s right China does that for Dorsey.
To: MinorityRepublican
Took them two weeks to take action against CCP while when they were dealing with President Trump, it took them hours.
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Exactly. This is some kind of half baked PR attempt by Twitter to cover for their ban of Pres. Trump and the subsequent tanking of their stock as site traffic collapses.
To: cockroach_magoo
Token “Twitterism” action. Nothing more, nothing less. Red Fascism will not stand up to Red Communism in any serious manner.
To: cockroach_magoo
I do not get it.
China says it has emancipated a group of ethnic women from the constraints of a traditional prejudice.
Then, Twitter locks down the Chinese account?
Is Twitter saying China lied?
To: cockroach_magoo
Wait until Bite-me calls and tells him to lay off China. Too much income for Bite-me Boy and the Family.
To: cockroach_magoo
Except for white evangelicals/aka conservatives whom we allow and foster degrading comment to be made.
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