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YouTube Suspends Account of Popular Chinese Dissident (freebeacon.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the watch-later dept.

schwit1 brings news about an exiled Chinese billionaire with 500,000 followers on YouTube. The Washington Free Beacon reports:YouTube has suspended the video account of popular Chinese dissident Guo Wengui amid a mounting pressure from the Beijing government to silence one of its critics. According to a person familiar with the action, YouTube issued what the company calls a 'strike' against Guo, who since the beginning of the year has created an online sensation by posting lengthy videos in which he reveals details of corruption by senior Chinese officials. The suspension involves a 90-day block on any new live-stream postings of videos and was the result of a complaint made against a recent Guo video for alleged harassment. The identity of the person or institution who issued the complaint could not be learned... Other videos by Guo posted prior to the suspension remain accessible.
The suspension coincides with this week's once-every-five-years congress of the Chinese Communist party to reveal which top officials will serve President Xi Jinping, according to Financial Times, adding that "China's choreographed politics is not designed for public participation or questioning."

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  1. Well... by BlueStrat · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...I, for one, welcome our Chinese internet overlords.

    Strat

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    Progressivism (aka US 'Liberalism'): Ideas so good they need a police/surveillance-state to enforce.
    1. Re:Well... by Stephen+Battleware · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I seriously might to have to re-evalutate how much YouTube watching I do.

      This is the problem with (de facto) monopolies, the few alternatives were long left out to dry and don't have the content.

      I hope Slashdot tracks the developments. Perhaps YouTube will reverse this darksided decision.

    2. Re:Well... by BlueStrat · · Score: 4, Insightful

      The dudeâ(TM)s a billionaire. Heâ(TM)s obviously not exactly suffering due to the persecution from the repressive Chinese government - sounds like heâ(TM)s more of a gadfly than a dissident.

      So if you're not poor and/or personally oppressed (maybe you were lucky enough/smart enough to escape?), then you have no right to oppose corruption/oppression occurring in your own birth-country?

      Can you break down the qualifiers for these various social classes and their respective rights/responsibilities/entitlements, please? We need a handy guide so we don't overstep our class privilege and speak out of turn, and thus possibly disrespect our class betters.

      TIA

      Strat

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  2. GOOGLE == EVIL by Tulsa_Time · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You knew it was only a matter of time.

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    1. Re:GOOGLE == EVIL by bobstreo · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Didn't take long from Do No Evil to Anything for a Buck. I blame the MBA mentality that is in charge now.

    2. Re:GOOGLE == EVIL by Dutch+Gun · · Score: 5, Insightful

      After reading the article, it's not just Google, but Facebook that's shutting him down as well. He claims he was never even contacted about this. Christ, how much influence over these tech giants does the Chinese government have? Obviously, this sort of subservience is the price you pay for access to the Chinese market.

      Where the hell are the social liberals running these companies when they blindly obey orders from the Chinese government? Fucking hypocrites, all of them.

      Using a Chinese security official who currently heads the international police organization Interpol, China succeeded in issuing an Interpol "red notice," or an international arrest warrant for alleged corruption.

      Ah, wonderful. The head of Interpol is a Chinese security officer? I didn't know that. I sort of wish I hadn't learned that. What the hell...

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    3. Re:GOOGLE == EVIL by careysub · · Score: 4, Funny

      There was a transcription error. The actual motto was "Do Know Evil".

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  3. Big brand thinks of making a profit in China by AHuxley · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Capitalism? Freedom of speech? Freedom after speech?
    All the best protections a nation like the USA can offer, protect and support...
    What does a US big brand do?
    Work extra hard to embrace and side with Communism and China.
    Is this what the internet and "social media" will look like? Communist parties tracking any content globally?
    US brands comply with removing free speech?
    What will be banned next?
    Tiananmen square? 4 June 1989?
    Tank Man https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    No more terms like Flower of Freedom? Goddess of Democracy? Operation Yellowbird https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., River elegy?

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    Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
  4. Re:Hint: by Vinegar+Joe · · Score: 4, Funny

    "our president.........is not equated to an emperor with the mandate of heaven"

    Where were you between 2008 and 2016?

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  5. Re:I'm not sure you can call him a "dissident" by ShanghaiBill · · Score: 4, Insightful

    His videos make specific allegations against specific people. Why don't you refute the allegations instead of attacking him personally?

    That he may have been corrupt himself makes his allegations more credible, not less, since it means he knows how the system works.