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Twitter Suspends Account of Chinese Virologist
- phendrenad2 6y agoIt's interesting to see how one website can operate on entirely different principles based on who the user is. A user from the US has almost unlimited free speech, while users in China are subject to their tweets being nuked by their government censors. Must be a fun engineering challenge.
- NoOneNew 6y agoI'm curious if you need multiple admin accounts to verify suspending an account or hide a tweet, or is it just anyone with privileges can do it willy nilly without collective accountability.
- NoOneNew 6y agoDidn't something similar happen to the doctor who was telling the world that covid was a big deal and rampaging throughout China when their gov was saying otherwise? I remember the CCP silencing him over embarrassing info. Sigh... I wonder how many years it'll take until we really know what happened in background of this. Oh and prepare yourself for the HN accounts suddenly becoming active saying, "be careful angering China blah blah blah"
- gnusty_gnurc 6y agoFor companies that seem to think that virtue is important (ahem BLM...), apparently they're completely deferential to countries that aren't just unconsciously or structurally racist, but actually and obviously racist (look at the society that blatantly privileges Han Chinese).