Posted on 01/22/2020 7:06:28 PM PST by ameribbean expat
A University of Minnesota student has been arrested in China and sentenced to six months in prison for tweets he posted while in the United States, according to a Chinese court document viewed by Axios. Some of the tweets contained images deemed to be unflattering portrayals of a "national leader."
Why it matters: The case represents a dramatic escalation of the Chinese government's attempts to shut down free speech abroad, and a global expansion of a Chinese police campaign a year ago to track down Twitter users in China who posted content critical of the Chinese government.
Details: According to an official court document dated Nov. 5, 2019, Chinese police detained 20-year-old Luo Daiqing in July 2019 in Wuhan, his hometown, where the liberal arts major had returned after the end of the spring semester.
The court document says that "in September and October 2018, while he was studying at the University of Minnesota," Luo "used his Twitter account to post more than 40 comments denigrating a national leader's image and indecent pictures," which "created a negative social impact."
But I thought “Red” was the Conservative GOP color ? That’s what the media has been telling us since November 2000.
Which is why my friends in Taiwan would say nothing about China to me in private messages. Ever.
The Va legislature is studying these ideas for their state.
Before his six month prison term is complete, he might be termed “Obsolete”.
The kid grew up in China. How the heck could he forget it?
Liberal Arts major in MN. He drank the American commie Kool-Aid, failed to exercise common sense— you know, the CCP could be monitoring your online and offline activities here...
Chance to make hay with other Chinese nationals studying in the US, but US will miss the opportunity.
Potent hallucinogen, that Kool-Aid!
We don’t buy it, but they keep forcing it on us.
My solution is just not to watch them. Ever.
Even though they killed or helped to kill tens of thousands of our citizens. At least we trade with their wonderful country, they must be swell.
He came to the West and got caught up in our freedom. He shouldn’t have forgotten, but we take it for granted. He did, and is paying the price.
This is illustrative because of the Americans (and I have heard them voice this from celebrity, media, and even political pulpits) who say “We should be more like the Chinese”
Well, they have that velvet glove over the iron fist. As long as things are going well and people keep their heads down, they don’t see the fist. They just see the glove and think that is hunky-dory.
At heart, they are still the same people that killed 60-100 million of their fellow Chinese for political purposes.
The media changing up the color scheme in 2000 still annoys me greatly.
THIS is what the American left WANTS.
That bothers this Conservative, and I suspect the Dems/Marxists/progressives as well.
I propose some sort of meeting of the minds in advance of November elections in which we exchange colors. The Dems/Marxists/progressives can have their traditional red back, and we Conservative/GOPers/and associates can have Blue. It makes sense, n'est ce pas?
What is hilarious is that you can post to FR while in China but they go after this guy for what he posted while in the U.S.
No?
Ok then.
Chi-coms do as Chi-coms do.
Wait, is this China or Virginia?
Well, coming from people who worship evil, expect nothing but lies.
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter ! - Isaiah 5:20
It should annoy all those of conscience. I refuse to use the slanderous, Orwellian newspeak mislabeling.
The left was fine with the change, as they made it.
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