Posted on 01/16/2021 4:55:29 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Twitter has come under fire recently for refusing to ban the Chinese government for lying about not employing forced labor in the Xinjiang province.
“‘Forced labor’ is the biggest lie of the century aimed to restrict and suppress the relevant Chinese authorities and companies and contain China’s development,” Chinese spokesperson Hua Chunying tweeted.
Accompanying the tweet was a video of forced laborers smiling and saying how good everything is at the factory. Nauseating.
"Forced labor" is the biggest lie of the century aimed to restrict and suppress the relevant Chinese authorities and companies and contain China's development.
🔗https://t.co/olKiB2NxwM pic.twitter.com/SxzzxkrOja— Hua Chunying 华春莹 (@SpokespersonCHN) January 14, 2021
More than one million Uyghurs, an ethnic Muslim minority in China, are being held against their will in several camps in Xinjiang province. and are forced to work in factories — some of them making products for Western countries. The Chinese Communists also practice forced abortions on Uyghur women as well as forced sterilizations. The Communists claim that their policies “emancipate” women.
Claims of forced labor made by Western governments and human rights groups cannot be denied. So when the Chinese foreign ministry tweets out an obvious lie about forced labor camps. why isn’t the account suspended? They banned Donald Trump for “lies” about the election, why not ban China for even worse transgressions?
On Thursday, the Chinese spokesperson accused the U.S. of creating lies and taking egregious actions based on its lies to violate international trade rules and principles of the market economy. The spokesperson also claimed that the United States was trying to undermine global industrial and value chains, and damaging the interests of companies and consumers all over the world, including those in the United States.
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Additionally, the spokesperson drew attention to the fact that the account was labeled as a China government account.
“We believe this is an important step so that when people see an account discussing geopolitical issues from another country, they have context on its national affiliation and are better informed about who they represent,” according to Twitter’s guidance on such accounts.
Why does Amazon get to cancel Parler’s server for violence but
still sell all manner of deadly weapons, for profit, on their web site?
They’ve probably got investments in Chi-com-run businesses.
Oh c’mon. You can’t ban your boss.
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