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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.
1 posted on 01/20/2021 9:09:10 PM PST by cockroach_magoo
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To: cockroach_magoo

Took them two weeks to take action against CCP while when they were dealing with President Trump, it took them hours.


2 posted on 01/20/2021 9:11:53 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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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.

:-)


3 posted on 01/20/2021 9:12:26 PM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it.)
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To: cockroach_magoo

Guess they haven’t heard John Brennan’s recent proclamation, is he on Trotter?


4 posted on 01/20/2021 9:16:53 PM PST by madison10
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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.


5 posted on 01/20/2021 9:17:38 PM PST by Twitmo (@Tail_Whpper in Gab and the Twit swamp.)
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To: cockroach_magoo

I do wonder how much Twitter tracks me.

A Gab phone would rock!


6 posted on 01/20/2021 9:23:49 PM PST by Twitmo (@Tail_Whpper in Gab and the Twit swamp.)
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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.


7 posted on 01/20/2021 9:26:38 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Call on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: cockroach_magoo

Serves to hide ChiCom’s nature from the general populace.

Twitter acting as their press agent.


8 posted on 01/20/2021 9:29:31 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: cockroach_magoo

Twitter is all for promoting genocide of the Ulgurs


9 posted on 01/20/2021 9:36:23 PM PST by White Lives Matter
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To: MinorityRepublican

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Pro-Black Lives Matter Corporations
many are Using Chinese Slave Labor
in their factorys in that moslem province
using practices which Trump condemed
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Most of this is happening in the area where Turkmen (Uigurs) live
who are racially different


10 posted on 01/20/2021 9:37:29 PM PST by mosesdapoet (mosesdapoet aka L.J.Keslin posting here for the record hoping somebody might read and pass around)
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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.
11 posted on 01/20/2021 9:48:12 PM PST by Viking2002 (The revolution won't need to be televised. It'll be on your doorstep.)
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To: cockroach_magoo

Cue “Uighur Women”, sung to the tune of
“Evil Woman” by ELO.


12 posted on 01/20/2021 9:56:34 PM PST by lee martell
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Twitter versus China?


13 posted on 01/20/2021 10:27:12 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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I honestly don't understand: If a govt. praises itself for liberating women from a previous condition of servitude (wherein they had been viciously degraded to being "baby-making machines"), how does demean or dehumanize the women?!

I am no friend of the CCP, but I don't understand Twitter locking an account over that particular tweet.

Regards,

14 posted on 01/20/2021 10:33:48 PM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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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.


15 posted on 01/20/2021 11:02:58 PM PST by FreedomNotSafety
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To: MinorityRepublican

Took them two weeks to take action against CCP while when they were dealing with President Trump, it took them hours.

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.


16 posted on 01/20/2021 11:05:38 PM PST by Flick Lives (“ Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.”)
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To: cockroach_magoo

Token “Twitterism” action. Nothing more, nothing less. Red Fascism will not stand up to Red Communism in any serious manner.


17 posted on 01/20/2021 11:07:38 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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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?


18 posted on 01/20/2021 11:09:45 PM PST by zeestephen
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To: cockroach_magoo
Drug addled hippie trying to pretend to have a conscience?

Wait until Bite-me calls and tells him to lay off China. Too much income for Bite-me Boy and the Family.

19 posted on 01/20/2021 11:11:12 PM PST by colorado tanker
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We prohibit the dehumanization of a group of people based on their religion, caste, age, disability, serious disease, national origin, race, or ethnicity,”

Except for white evangelicals/aka conservatives whom we allow and foster degrading comment to be made.

20 posted on 01/21/2021 12:46:36 AM PST by daniel1212 (Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned + destitute sinner + trust Him to save + be baptized+follow Him!)
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