6.4. Twitter (推特)
Particularly interesting ones:
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After Trump was unfairly banned from Twitter, his social media team created an amazing "Chongald Xrump" account pretending ridiculously to be a CCP PR person, it had really good posts.
But that amazing account was banned: https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-sneaks-back-on-twitter-by-disguising-self-as-pr-rep-for-chinese-communist-party Twitter is trying really hard to beat the CCP at its own game.
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News:
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2021-07 https://apnews.com/article/china-business-technology-3741dcfb1c2eb11f17280c9ed8c06fc4 "Twitter restricts account of expert who mocked China leader" Anne-Marie Brady https://twitter.com/Anne_MarieBrady
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2021-04-08: publicly supported the Milk Tea Alliance (奶茶联盟)
Unfair censorship:
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2021-08-12 https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/11/twitter-locks-account-of-india-congress-largest-opposition-party/ Twitter locks account of India’s largest opposition party (Indian National Congress)
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2021-08-10 https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/10/marjorie-taylor-greene-mjt-twitter-suspension/ Twitter suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene temporarily for spreading vaccine misinformation
Figure 86. Cartoon showing Donald Trump’s mouth sewn shut in a "Twitter" shape by Kuang Biao (邝飚) (2021) after Trump was banned from Twitter. You know it’s bad when the artists who normally criticize the CCP start to criticize you. Rebel Pepper (变态辣椒, RFA cartoonist)'s "I can’t Tweet" comes to mind, although it was about The West is racist against black people (西方人对黑人有种族主义) instad. Source.
Particularly interesting ones:
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After Trump was unfairly banned from Twitter, his social media team created an amazing "Chongald Xrump" account pretending ridiculously to be a CCP PR person, it had really good posts.
But that amazing account was banned: https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-sneaks-back-on-twitter-by-disguising-self-as-pr-rep-for-chinese-communist-party Twitter is trying really hard to beat the CCP at its own game.
News:
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2021-07 https://apnews.com/article/china-business-technology-3741dcfb1c2eb11f17280c9ed8c06fc4 "Twitter restricts account of expert who mocked China leader" Anne-Marie Brady https://twitter.com/Anne_MarieBrady
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2021-04-08: publicly supported the Milk Tea Alliance (奶茶联盟)
Unfair censorship:
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2021-08-12 https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/11/twitter-locks-account-of-india-congress-largest-opposition-party/ Twitter locks account of India’s largest opposition party (Indian National Congress)
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2021-08-10 https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/10/marjorie-taylor-greene-mjt-twitter-suspension/ Twitter suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene temporarily for spreading vaccine misinformation