OUTRAGE - Before 30th Anniv of Tiananmen Square Massacre, US Social Media Giants Smother Critics

Twitter, Yaxue Cao ^ | June 3rd, 2019 | Author

[gaijin]

Tommorow, June 4th marks the 30th Anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre of 1989. With sharp trade disputes between the US and China, this year promises sharper public interest in the massacre.

In preparation for the Anniversary, San Francisco-based Twitter has shut down 32,000 accounts critical of the Chinese Communist Party, accounts originating both in and outside China.

Facebook is also said to have taken similar pre-June 4th action against 40,000 accounts. No explanation has been given.

Most accounts of the incident acknowledge hundreds of deaths in Tiananmen Square, but experts claim the actual figure runs into thousands, some even claim over 10,000 deaths from 48 hours of government shooting. At the height of the protests as many as one million citizens crowded the square and protesting spread to hundreds of cities. The PLA used 300,000 troops to put down the uprising. The brave Beijing man who alone stopped three tanks (photo, left) was later beaten to death.

The US media companies and executives who ordered the account purges are also in charge of the social media accounts of the readers of FreeRepublic in the USA and abroad.

Long time advocate of intellectual freedom, Princeton University and the US’s largest public pension plan are funding perfection of facial recognition in China, an important tool of political conformity by the Chinese authorities.

Spooling down the long Twitter thread at link shows a long but partial list of the accounts suddenly shut down.

If Silicon Valley is amenable to repression by Chinese dictators half a world away, why wouldn't they also accomodate repression by American dictators here at home..?

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But then the tanks arrive...

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And then the violent government response begins...

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So the question:

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THIS was the Google art submission on the 25th Anniversary.

Will be see something similar tomorrow..?

My guess is NO.

[Thank You Rush]

“”The US media companies and executives who ordered the account purges are also in charge of the social media accounts of the readers of FreeRepublic in the USA and abroad.””

What does that mean? I’m a reader of FR but no social media participation whatsoever.....How does anyone know who reads FR and also may be involved with social media?

Or is that a dumb question in this dumb time?

[econjack]

I don’t use twitter. I have a FB account, but don’t use it. I have quit using Google, mainly because of their tracking/selling policies. I find DuckDuckGo every bit as good and they don’t track or sell your information.

[AJFavish]

https://www.allanfavish.com/index.php/communist-china/118-tian-an-men-square-massacre

[Dilbert San Diego]

I remember the protests in the weeks before the massacre. It brought back memories to see the statue called “The Goddess of Democracy” in the picture here. People thought there was hope for some real lasting reforms in China at that time.

But then, the result was more in line with Hungary 1956, or Czechoslovakia 1968, as the Chinese massacred their own people to maintain firm communist dictatorial control.

[Kommodor]

Orwell was right.

[BenLurkin]

Twitter has shut down 32,000 accounts critical of the Chinese Communist Party, accounts originating both in and outside China.

Is this true? Not saying it isn't but.....if true wow!

[skinndogNN]

Watching the news yesterday.

A news reporter went to China, and was able to ask 30 year olds or younger if they have ever seen the famous picture of the guy in front of the tank.

None of them had ever seen it. They don’t teach about it in China schools. Completely ignored.

But then I think, would a 29 year old American millennial have recognized the same picture. I’m not sure they would.

[Tacrolimus1mg]

I’m 31. I recognized that picture immediately.

The world is slipping into a haze. History is either misrepresented or forgotten, and the parts to which this happens are usually the most important.

I had an openly Socialist history teacher in high school. Having been ill and as a result missing about half of high school, I had the opportunity to learn on my own from home, and it was a good thing that I did. My classmates retained that information as truth, and most don’t know how to define the things which they attempt to discuss. Even the history major, with a Master’s, neglects to see the political system which caused this massacre as something inherently negative. He didn’t effectively explain why last I saw him. At the time I was more of a Republican than the Libertarian I am now, and I think he was angered by that fact alone and said anything he could to make him feel like he was besting me.

I live in Chicagoland, so it’s not a surprise. Just depressing. Nothing can excuse what happened to those protesters in Tiananmen and make that the correct decision, but most my age have no clue.

[dfwgator]

I remember hearing this Radio Beijing Broadcast live as it happened on my Shortwave....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_Vp5YWbdAs

AFAIK, nobody knows whatever happened to this announcer.

[Forward the Light Brigade]

Remember Tibet—the Chinese Reds seized it and abused the peaceful inhabitants. We get mad at Russia for taking Cremia where most of the people are Russian—what of Tibet? China seized a whole nation. But we make money from China so we ignore their abuse. Mark my words—This will not end well.

[Reily]

Except Tibet was always under some form of Chinese hegemony. Through most of their history the Han Chinese didn’t interfere with Tibetan life. The Tibetans didn’t care anything about the outside world so Chinese hegemony wasn’t much of an issue to them. Of course communists being communist interference with your life is what they do best. So they had to go in and interfere & oppress the Tibetans. Force them to believe it was good for them!

[GOPJ]

The deep stand and tech companies work hand in glove... If they defeat Trump we'll be living in a police state with limited awareness of how we're being manipulated.

Years ago a friend (in the US) was on the phone with her mother (who lived in Russia when tanks were moving in Moscow) She told her mother what was happening on live TV... Her mother didn't believe her because social control was that perfect. In 30 years, few Chinese will know about protests at Tiananmen Square. It's sad.

A hallmark of totalitarians is they destroy history. ISIS blew up ancient Buddha statues, American leftist thugs/mobs tore down statues, and Chinese/American Tech Companies destroy the memory of Tiananmen Square... Our movement must be 'keeping truth alive'...