Just days away, June 4th will be the 30th Anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre of 1989. With sharp trade disputes between the US and China, this year promises sharper public interest in the incident. Posted on 06/01/2019 7:38:36 AM PDT by gaijin
Just days away, June 4th will be the 30th Anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre of 1989. With sharp trade disputes between the US and China, this year promises sharper public interest in the incident.
In preparation for the Anniversary, Twitter has shut down 32,000 accounts critical of the Chinese Communist Party, accounts originating both in and outside China.
Facebook is also said to have taken similar pre-June 4th action against 40,000 accounts. No explanation has been given.
Most accounts of the incident acknowledge hundreds of deaths in Tiananmen Square, but some experts claim the actual figure runs into thousands. At the height of the protests as many as one million citizens crowded the square and protesting spread to 400 cities.
The companies and executives who ordered the account purges are also in charge of the social media accounts of the readers of FreeRepublic in the USA and abroad.
Princeton University and the US’s largest public pension plan are funding perfection of facial recognition in China, an important tool of enforcement by the Chinese authorities.
Spooling down the long Twitter thread shows a long but partial list of the accounts suddenly shut down.
If Silicon Valley is amenable to repression by Chinese dictators half a world away, why would they not be to that by American ones here at home..?
BEFORE the shooting.
So you’re saying the government acted appropriately and the protestors got what they deserved? Is that correct?
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That’s a pretty clever drawing.
Too bad the World will never see it, since Google has sold out their principles for Chinese geld.
"Goddess of Democracy" statue
If the Deep State takes out POTUS Trump and Patriots march on DC, that Will be a rebellion.
thanks! seems like no one responded to either. if there was some way to work “democrat” into it then there would be lots of comments. just like no one really cares it seems. easier to just move on and remember tank man ... the rest is in the weeds so to speak for most here
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Seriously f’d up.
Excellent post.
No, I was telling you what the Chinese government says. Why are people on FR so eager to kill the messenger?
Yeah, sure. Conservatives always blog angrily, but I actually doubt they will ever take any action for any reason.
Run by twits and buttpumps….
Why are so quick to judge? I was simply asking for clarification. I suspected that’s what you meant, but wasn’t sure because frankly you wrote the post in a way that could easily be misconstrued.
Sort of the same question I asked, isn't it? Did you look at the post to which I responded?
Yes I did. And your answer was not definitive whether your second sentence, “It was a rebellion, put down appropriately,” was what the Chinese government said, or what you believed. So I asked for clarification. Wasn’t trying to shoot the messenger. In fact, I made sure I understood you by asking exactly what you meant.
I was in Shanghai in 1991, not long after Tiananmen. When I asked about it, they would pretend not to hear. They simply ignored me. Eventually my interpreter told us to stay clear of that topic to avoid danger. She told us that we would be deported while our conversation partners would disappear.
China was very unsettling during that first visit. In 1993, the ambient was much better.
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