Twitter Blocks Tweets On China Human Rights Abuses Story As AG Barr Decries Silicon Valley 'Collaboration' With CCP
Twitter Blocks Tweets On China Human Rights
Abuses Story As AG Barr Decries Silicon Valley 'Collaboration' With CCP
by Tyler Durden Thu,
07/16/2020 - 13:25
After repudiating China's
claim to the South China Sea, ending an Obama-era policy of
indifference that critics slammed as tantamount to appeasement, and
moving to strip Hong Kong of its special status (while punishing CCP
officials responsible for enforcing the new HK national security law), the
Trump Administration unleashed its latest rhetorical assault on the Communist
Party and its monstrous human rights abuses.
As the Trump
Administration weighs
a travel ban on CCP officials, AG Bill Barr delivered a speech warning
about the complicity of Silicon Valley and Hollywood in helping to perpetuate
the CCP's growing influence over American culture.
Criticizing China for
resisting political liberalization that Americans once believed would
eventually follow along with the economic liberalization agenda, Beijing
is now embarking on a mission to elevate itself as a locus of geopolitical
power to rival the US.
Barr complained that
Hollywood has become too willing to kowtow to Beijing, censoring not just
versions of movies that are shown in China, but also those that are released in
the US.
Many Hollywood films have
been "altered one way or another to please the CCP" and many other
scripts never see the light of day due to self-censorship. Barr added that it's
tantamount to a "massive propaganda coup".
He also invoked the memory of
Walt Disney, saying the found would be "ashamed" of what happened to
his company.
I suspect Walt Disney would
be disheartened to see how the company he founded deals with the foreign
dictatorships of our day,” Barr said in a speech at the Gerald R. Ford
Presidential Museum.
As an example, Barr cited
"World War Z", which reportedly contained a scene where the
protagonists speculated that the virus originated in China. Examples of this
type of censorship have grown increasingly common Barr said.
He also accused the American
tech behemoths from Google to Facebook and Twitter of doing the CCP's bidding.
"Appeasing the PRC may
bring short term relief...but in the end, PRC's goal is to replace
you," Barr warned.
The fundamental character of
the regime has never changed...as its ruthless crackdown of Hong Kong shows
once again, China is no closer to democracy today than it was in 1989."
Over the years, Google,
Microsoft, Yahoo and Apple "have shown themselves all too willing to
collaborate" with the Communist Party of China, Barr added.
As if to underscore his
point, just as Barr was speaking, one of the NYT reporters who was recently
booted out of Beijing by the CCP complained that Twitter had censored one of
his tweets about a horrifying forced sterilization campaign in Uygur women.
Another Twitter user
purported to find a mistake in the code to which this 'arbitrary' censorship
might be attributable.
But the company hasn't
commented on what's going on.
Watch the speech below:
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