Large number of Twitter accounts critical of China suspended
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""" In a statement, Twitter said that as a part of its routine efforts to stop spam and inauthentic behavior, it had inadvertently gone after a number of legitimate Chinese-language accounts.
“These accounts were not mass reported by the Chinese authorities — this was routine action on our part,” the company said in a statement on Twitter. “Sometimes our routine actions catch false positives or we make errors. We apologize.”
Online, many users said they did not believe Twitter’s statement told the whole story. """
people need to be reminded that China hasn't changed in the way they treat anyone critical of this regime. and there are far to many China apologists sitting in power in Silicon Valley (at YC Sam Altman is a prominent case)
The former would just mean Twitter needs to tweak their suspension procedures a bit. The latter would be quite worrisome due to the various implications (security breach, internal oversight and approval, rogue employee, etc.).
There used to be a loophole in Twitter where you could register accounts en masse (without phone verification), but they have since clamped down on this and now you have to go through rigorous verification steps to prove you're not some bot or trying to run a propaganda campaign.
sigh.
Note I'd prefer not to use the term greed above, it's just the most succinct for the situation but it is the reality.
Minus the invasion, we are pre ww2, concentration camps are happening and we are doing business with those practioners.
I and everyone I have an influence on, are refusing to buy Chinese goods, that's the limit of my power (which is fuck all honestly).
What device did you type this message on? Odds are very high it was assembled in China with a significant portion, if not majority, of Chinese-made components, and the company that sold it to you either has a significant presence in the Chinese market, or wishes it did.
I understand the concern here, but for better or worse, China is where pretty much anything that uses transistors is made, and it's just not practical to boycott everything that passes through there.
(Not to mention that it's not really fair to punish Chinese business-owners for the actions of their government when they have even less accountability over it than we do over ours. Is it fair for people of other countries to not buy from American companies because of our government's absurd incarceration rates?)