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How Western Social Media Can Do More Than Just Pay Lip Service to Uphold Freedom of Speech

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How Western Social Media Can Do More Than Just Pay Lip Service to Uphold Freedom of Speech
Logos of the Big Tech giants are displayed on a tablet on Oct. 1, 2019. Denis Charlet/AFP via Getty Images
Peter Dahlin
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Twitter’s recent banning of accounts critical of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is deplorable. But it also forces us to really start considering how Western social media and Big Tech companies can defend freedom of speech, instead of being used as tools against us by authoritarian states such as the Chinese regime.
Peter Dahlin
Peter Dahlin
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Peter Dahlin is the founder of the NGO Safeguard Defenders and the co-founder of the Beijing-based Chinese NGO China Action (2007–2016). He is the author of “Trial By Media,” and contributor to “The People’s Republic of the Disappeared.” He lived in Beijing from 2007, until detained and placed in a secret jail in 2016, subsequently deported and banned. Prior to living in China, he worked for the Swedish government with gender equality issues, and now lives in Madrid, Spain.
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