July 1 was the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the 24th anniversary of Hong Kong’s handover to China from the United Kingdom.
It was a moment of celebration for the regime and its supporters, including Chinese Students and Scholars Association (CSSA) chapters at British Columbia universities, who competed for prizes from the Vancouver Chinese consulate for showing their ” devotion to the Party .”
Anne-Marie Brady had a different reaction. Using the CCP’s official anniversary hashtag, the China scholar at New Zealand’s University of Canterbury mocked President Xi Jinping on Twitter , noting the paltry international recognition for the anniversaries.
Within three days, Twitter had marked the tweets “unavailable,” locked her out and hid Brady’s account from searches, as documented by a British journalist, Edward Lucas, who pressed Twitter communications for an explanation.The public scrutiny apparently worked. “Seems like @Twitter may have briefly forgotten they don’t work for […]
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