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Twitter Suspends Professor Over Posts Mocking China’s Xi Jinping
New York Post ^ | July 7, 2021 | Mark Moore

Posted on 07/07/2021 12:06:44 PM PDT by nickcarraway

​Twitter temporarily suspended a New Zealand professor after she mocked the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party and President Xi Jingping.

Anne-Marie Brady, a professor at the University of Canterbury, wrote two tweets making fun of China and Xi celebrating the centennial of the Communist Party.

She posted a Sydney Morning Herald story headlined “Xi’s hollow 100th birthday celebration for the Chinese Communist Party” by adding “alternative headline: Xi: its my Party and I’ll cry if I want to,” referring to the Lesley Gore hit song from 1963.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bigtech; internet; socialmedia; technotyranny; twitter; xijinping

1 posted on 07/07/2021 12:06:44 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

These are pretty mild - I’d barely call them criticisms.


2 posted on 07/07/2021 12:07:51 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

CCP has already conquered the West by bribing all of our leaders (except for Trump).


3 posted on 07/07/2021 12:07:55 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: nickcarraway

Twitter’s staff are CCP agents. Time for arrests and firing squads. All legal of course.


4 posted on 07/07/2021 12:10:44 PM PDT by Seruzawa (The political Left is the Garden of Eden of Incompetence - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: nickcarraway

These tech companies are full of America hating losers.


5 posted on 07/07/2021 12:12:25 PM PDT by Vision (Elections are one day. Reject "Chicago" vote harvesting. Election Reform Now. Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: nickcarraway

New Zealand is a Chinese colony for all intents and purposes.


6 posted on 07/07/2021 12:12:54 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Yes. But ANYONE can post whatever they want about Trump.
I no longer use any of the platforms run by these idiot websites that control free speech.
Everyone needs to dump the big business thought police who are in cahoots with the CCP and are using cheap overseas laborers!
Talk about holding slaves- big business is using SLAVES right now.


7 posted on 07/07/2021 12:15:00 PM PDT by doc maverick
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To: Seruzawa

You think they should execute this professor?


8 posted on 07/07/2021 12:15:06 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Seruzawa

They all deserve fair trials by jury, which I presume you acknowledge with the your insistence that it be “all legal”.

I’m not sure however that firing squads are appropriate. The Nuremberg trials sentenced the worst actors to death by hanging.


9 posted on 07/07/2021 12:22:03 PM PDT by Skepolitic ( )
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To: nickcarraway

The social media giant also denied​ that​ it suspended the account due to pressure from the Chinese government.

“To set the record straight, the assertion that Twitter is in coordination with any government to suppress speech has no basis in fact whatsoever,” Twitter said. “We advocate for a free, global and open internet and remain a staunch defender of freedom of expression.”​


10 posted on 07/07/2021 12:22:17 PM PDT by Flick Lives (“Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.”)
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To: Flick Lives

They say that, and really believe it. They really do. But they are all Leftists, and therefore, mentally ill, so that isn’t surprising.


11 posted on 07/07/2021 12:24:46 PM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists are The Droplet of Sewage in a gallon of ultra-pure clean water.)
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To: nickcarraway

I don’t think that this professor is twitter staff.


12 posted on 07/07/2021 12:29:35 PM PDT by Seruzawa (The political Left is the Garden of Eden of Incompetence - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: nickcarraway

I’m sure they banned people who made jokes about Orange Man, didn’t they?


13 posted on 07/07/2021 12:34:05 PM PDT by seowulf (Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos...Will Durant)
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To: nickcarraway

Red China and The Democrat Party are both evil.

Twitter defends them both.


14 posted on 07/07/2021 12:51:08 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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15 posted on 07/07/2021 12:51:34 PM PDT by 4Liberty (Honest GOP can't use legal means because Dems use illegal ones (threats). The Robert Creamer Party! )
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To: Vision
These tech companies are full of America hating losers.

Yes, very destructive

16 posted on 07/07/2021 12:52:45 PM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: nickcarraway

Now we know who is making decisions at twatter. How much money do the chicoms give to twatter to ensure that it will continue to support chicom causes?

Twatter is not a social media site. It is a honey pot, designed to get you to express your opinion, and then they shoot you down when your head pops up. It’s how they identify the dissidents, putting their names into a database for later retribution.


17 posted on 07/07/2021 12:56:00 PM PDT by I want the USA back (To find out who really rules you, find out who you're not allowed to criticize. Voltaire. )
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To: nickcarraway

Twitter = Twaddle


18 posted on 07/07/2021 2:16:13 PM PDT by antidemoncrat (somRead more at: https://economicti)
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To: 4Liberty


19 posted on 07/07/2021 2:26:47 PM PDT by GraceG ("If I post an AWESOME MEME, STEAL IT! JUST RE-POST IT IN TWO PLACES PLEASE")
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