WIRED SLAMS Chinese Online Censorship, Ignores Same Tactics Used by Big Tech in US

“As it turns out, remembering the politically inconvenient is a risky thing. To help others to remember is even more dangerous.” Leftist WIRED published these words as part of a report on Chinese online censorship. Ironically, WIRED has condemned China for similar censorship tactics that American social media platforms use here.

Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai seemingly disappeared — at least temporarily — after accusing Chinese Communist Party (CCP) former Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli of a forced sexual relationship. Wired reports that Shuai, along with her story, were heavily censored in China by the state via Chinese social media. WIRED also reported that Zhou Xiaoxuan (scriptwriter) and her friends were subject to a CCP social-media crackdown. They had been accused by Zhou of sexual harassment. Zhu Jun was state-sponsored media anchor.  The outlet reportedly quoted novelist Hao Qun about CCP’s online targeting of independent voices: “They want to sever those relationships and make the relationship on Weibo atomized, just like relations in Chinese society, where everyone is just a solitary atom.”

WIRED described CCP censorship in terms of undermining communities, or more specifically specific unapproved groups. What the left-leaning outlet did not add was that social media companies in America also engage in seemingly targeted, biased censorship of independent voices and certain communities — in particular, those who disagree with the liberal or leftist narrative on a given topic. 

Indeed, anyone saying “politically inconvenient” (to use WIRED’s phrase) things in the U.S. can be censored.

According to the Media Research Center, congressional Republicans were censored by Big Tech at 54 times that of congressional Democrats in October. Big Tech suppressed evidence that Joe Biden was involved in corrupt financial transactions with China through Hunter. A MRC poll found that 13.1 per cent of Biden voters would vote differently if they knew the story. Big Tech censorship of politically inconvenient stories is so blatant that a poll commissioned by MRC with McLaughlin & Associates from October found that 51.8 percent of voters believe Big Tech is guilty of 2020 “election interference.” Former President Donald Trump was banned from Twitter, but Chinese and Iranian government officials and entities continue to spread violent, threatening rhetoric on Twitter.

MRC Free Speech America’s CensorTrack database currently has logged 3,068 censorship cases. Although the CCP has been accused of censoring people who accuse members of power structures, American social media firms are guilty as well. WIRED is correct to point out that Chinese censorship is intended to silence independent voices and weaken community. Big Tech does the exact same thing in America.

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