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Even if it wasn't an accident -- even if he saw the Tweet, and on behalf of Marriott and in full intention of broadcasting such, he clicked "Like" on this tweet
by intopieces 9y ago
Even if it wasn't an accident -- even if he saw the Tweet, and on behalf of Marriott and in full intention of broadcasting such, he clicked "Like" on this tweet, it's completely insane he would be fired for it. The tweet exhibits a positive sentiment. I would not expect most people to know that this sentiment matters to China.
This is another example of China exerting influence on the open web, and it's shameful that we have ceded leadership to China like this.
- banned1 9y agoEmployees in social media teams should not be clicking LIKE in anything. It’s too risky to the business, and it conflates your personal preferences with corporate business goals. You cannot be yourself on social media anymore. You just have to be inactive, a fake, or pretend to be like what the echo chamber asks you to be.
- gowld 9y agoHe wasn't being "himself". He was an employee of Marriott Incorporated, doing the job he is paid to: publicize Twitter users who paint Marriott Incorporated in a good light.
- sib 9y agoJust a quick note that you probably mean "conflates" (combine two or more texts, ideas, etc. into one) rather than "conflagrates" (a conflagration is 'an extensive fire that destroys a great deal of land or property.') ;)
- banned1 9y agoYou are right! THANK YOU FOR TEACHING ME something. (Fixed it) Have a great weekend!
- tempestn 9y agoClicking 'like' on tweets positive toward the brand is a common job for employees in social media teams. Making connections around the brand is the whole job of those employees. (Not saying whether or not he should have liked this particular tweet, or whether it was an accident or whatever—just that it's common and part of the job to like a tweet.)
- tinza123 9y agoIt is not that hard to imagine being fired by "clicking" likes, let's not oversimplify like this. Official tweeter accounts carry weights. Plus this is not about China at all, what if this is a Nazi tweet? An ISIS tweet? An anti-LGBT tweet? It's either the company's way of dealing with PR problems, or the employee's misconduct, but not about China.
- YSFEJ4SWJUVU6 9y agoA dictatorship like China raising the issue over Tibet is the equivalent of (an alternative universe) powerful Nazi Germany getting someone fired in the U.S. over liking a tweet about Jewish rights issue.
- tinza123 9y agoWOW that escalates quickly. I thought the Americans liked capitalism.
- toomuchtodo 9y agoWe're currently having a nationalist/populist period.
- ronilan 9y ago> I thought the Americans liked capitalism. Depends from which account they accidently "liked" it.
- gameswithgo 9y agoAmerican here. Not often.
- philwelch 9y agoThat’s a terrible analogy. It’s more like the Nazis getting someone fired for liking a tweet about Austria or Czechoslovakia still being a country.
- exolymph 9y ago
- stupidgeek314 9y ago> The tweet exhibits a positive sentiment Not if you are the Chinese government... not at all. > This is another example of China exerting influse on the open web This has nothing to do with the open web, there is not censorship involved. This was Marriott's business relationship with China.
- jpttsn 9y agoThought experiment: a Russian multinational, Gazprom maybe, likes a campaign tweet for “Free Alaska.” How does it come across in America?
- Asooka 9y agoPresident Trump tweets "my big red shiny button bigger than Gazprom CEO's shiny bald head!", a thousand verified twitter accounts blast him for bad international relations. Across the American web many different opinions are raised, debated, trolled, and flamewars rage for a couple of days. Someone posts an image edit of President Trump swinging his tiny hands at a caricature of Putin. There are cats. Nobody at Gazprom gets bothered at all by this.
- exolymph 9y ago> Nobody at Gazprom gets bothered at all by this. Ahh, there's the unrealistic part. Unless by "bothered" you specifically mean "bothered by government personnel"?
- golemiprague 9y agoSo far the only person who has some balls to stand against China was Trump. Obama was grovelling to Chinese and Muslim brothers, he was a wimp and they treated him like a wimp. People in the west can lough as much as they want at Trump but he gets respect in the middle east and in Asia.
- nasredin 9y agoA more appropriate example would be the Crimean annexation, which only a handful of countries recognize. Also IIRC a lot of these companies are state-owned or owned by Kremlin-friendly oligarchs. Not really a private corporation.
- EchoAce 9y agoIt’s a completely different issue though; there’s already a lot of built up politics regarding Tibet in China.
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