<story><title>The NBA Feels a Backlash in China After a Tweet Supporting Hong Kong</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-nba-feels-a-backlash-in-china-after-a-tweet-supporting-hong-kong-11570396236?mod=rsswn</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>khc</author><text>This is more representing the power of social media mob justice than what &amp;quot;China&amp;quot; wants. It&amp;#x27;s really not that different from how the left or the right boycott a business after any other tweet</text></item><item><author>reaperducer</author><text>China is offended by him offering an opinion on something.  So, that makes them right?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m offended by his backpedaling.  That makes me right, right?&lt;p&gt;China really needs to get a grip and understand that with seven billion people in the world, not everyone is going to agree with everything it wants.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alisonatwork</author><text>This is only superficially true.&lt;p&gt;In China the CPC exercises strict control over what topics are allowed to trend on social media, so what appears to be &amp;quot;mob justice&amp;quot; is actually a carefully curated event. The state media chose to report on this rather than ignore it. The Cyberspace Administration chose to allow this outrage to gain momentum while topics that do not toe the party line are squashed.&lt;p&gt;You cannot really compare the kind of social media &amp;quot;mob justice&amp;quot; people speak of in the west to how things are managed on the Chinese internet.</text></comment>
<story><title>The NBA Feels a Backlash in China After a Tweet Supporting Hong Kong</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-nba-feels-a-backlash-in-china-after-a-tweet-supporting-hong-kong-11570396236?mod=rsswn</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>khc</author><text>This is more representing the power of social media mob justice than what &amp;quot;China&amp;quot; wants. It&amp;#x27;s really not that different from how the left or the right boycott a business after any other tweet</text></item><item><author>reaperducer</author><text>China is offended by him offering an opinion on something.  So, that makes them right?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m offended by his backpedaling.  That makes me right, right?&lt;p&gt;China really needs to get a grip and understand that with seven billion people in the world, not everyone is going to agree with everything it wants.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>supercanuck</author><text>Sure it is. One represents free speech in response to market participants making decisions.&lt;p&gt;The other is an authoritarian government shutting down business ties based on one employee opinion.&lt;p&gt;How do people not see the difference in this? On twitter, people are to speak whatever they want and can choose to buy whatever they want.&lt;p&gt;In China. Not so much.</text></comment>