What China is doing is clear. If these peaceful, extremely self-disciplined protesters who enjoy the clear backing of the overwhelming majority of Hong Kongers can be discredited, it will be easier to crack down. What the fuck Twitter thinks it's doing is less clear.
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If you work at Twitter, I'm asking you on bended knee to make it stop. Don't be complicit in this.
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Xinhua, the agency buying these tweets, has literally referred to the Hong Kong protesters as 'cockroaches'. Today a 17 year old kid at a march insisted on holding his umbrella over my head for three miles because it was raining. I looked very carefully - no antennae, human eyes
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Please, if you're getting them too, post or describe your favorite paid Chinese propaganda tweet in this thread
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Here's the question: a bunch of young people in Hong Kong are standing up to their government, at terrific personal risk, to fight for basic human rights. Will a bunch of Twitter employees, at far less risk, stand up to their CEO and refuse to be used as a weapon against them?
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First thing I see on my Twitter feed this morning (even though
@thegrugq made an effort to get it off my front page) is more paid venom from Xinhuapic.twitter.com/MHXfBEEZS7
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I just came home from a completely peaceful march where possibly a million Hong Kong residents came out, with no police in sight, to call for basic democratic rights. What greets me is straight up lies from Xinhua about "bands of thugs", courtesy of Twitter advertising.pic.twitter.com/pUTsnqZ5oN
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It was tiny compared to the protest today. I was at both.
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Both protests were completely non-violent. Blocking you for blatant propaganda
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