Siwon cancelled by China over liking a tweet (1 Viewer)

[Abeamus]

Super Junior’s Choi Siwon has now apologized following an uproar among Chinese fans after he “liked” a tweet about the pro-democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong.

On November 24, Choi Siwon “liked” a Korean news outlet’s tweet with a link to a translated CNN interview with Patrick Chow (also known as Choi Pak Kwan), a 21-year-old unarmed protestor who was shot and critically injured by a police officer in Hong Kong. The interview includes comments such as, “People can be killed by bullets. But beliefs can’t be killed.”

Choi Siwon’s action drew large criticism from Chinese netizens as a screenshot of his Twitter page was shared on the Chinese social media site Weibo.

Choi Siwon later wrote on his Weibo, “I have checked what happened on Twitter. I was simply expressing my interest with just the hope that the situation of chaos and violence will come to an end soon.” He went on to say, “I sincerely apologize that my action has caused you to have ill feelings and feel disappointment.”

Despite this, Choi Siwon’s fan club on Weibo (which has over 90,000 followers) announced their decision to close.

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[RandAlThor]

Super Junior’s Choi Siwon has now apologized following an uproar among Chinese fans after he “liked” a tweet about the pro-democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong.

On November 24, Choi Siwon “liked” a Korean news outlet’s tweet with a link to a translated CNN interview with Patrick Chow (also known as Choi Pak Kwan), a 21-year-old unarmed protestor who was shot and critically injured by a police officer in Hong Kong. The interview includes comments such as, “People can be killed by bullets. But beliefs can’t be killed.”

Choi Siwon’s action drew large criticism from Chinese netizens as a screenshot of his Twitter page was shared on the Chinese social media site Weibo.

Choi Siwon later wrote on his Weibo, “I have checked what happened on Twitter. I was simply expressing my interest with just the hope that the situation of chaos and violence will come to an end soon.” He went on to say, “I sincerely apologize that my action has caused you to have ill feelings and feel disappointment.”

Despite this, Choi Siwon’s fan club on Weibo (which has over 90,000 followers) announced their decision to close.

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Social media is a multi edged weapon.

Its foolish to court china money. just because it is so big does not gloss over the fact it is a totalitarian regime.
Hell bent on retaking Hong Kong and Taiwan.
If we had any balls as nations we would cut off all trade with them expel all national students ect, but we do not.
And they are bleeding the west dry of info and tech.
young man is not wrong though.

This kid was never heard from again.
He was killed yet lives on.
This is the what we support with those glitzy Nike shoes ect.

 

[jasque]

It's so sad what is happening in Hong Kong, I can see how it must be difficult for idols to pretend they don't care or that they are pro China government...

The protesters can only count on themselves :/

 

[Mayday]

if idols do not want to be hated they should stay out of something they do not understand. even if you have a view point you don't understand this enviornment, it's not... obviously you are going to lose support when you agree to that and like a post like that

I'm pretty sure he understands it. It's pretty hot news globally. A new ounce of information everyday...

 

[Mayday]

not misunderstanding the issue, you are righ, that is very global.

I meant more understanding response or thinking enough about response, thats why I said even if you know your view point you aren't in the same environment we are in , everyone's going to react a certain way and if you aren't prepared for that I wouldn't be liking comments and publicly taking sides.
sorry if I did not make that clear , I left some things out accidentally that could have clarified that more

Agreed. It's a very risky subject to speak about. I, myself, don't even speak about it.

 

[yeji]

that went by fast.....

 

[maruberry]

I would honestly say for an idol it is the safest to not take any sides in politics. If they are Chinese just post the mandatory political spiel and stop at that. No need to show any personal opinion, unless you want to be cancelled by one side of the things.

 

[blueberries]

I think it's opposite. It's really important to call out this behavior worldwide, being silent is acceptance of it and letting it continue. Big nations keep doing this elsewise, they twist the truth and try to get their people to believe their false agenda. They do this so they can justify attacking smaller nations and goverments, to take over their land and resources, to dominate over this. Russia has been doing same for ages here in Europe.

Siwon did not even express strong opinion towards it himself, he liked a tweet about news article on CNN which is very known newspaper internationally. No matter what "side" u are on, you should be agreeing that the violence has gone too far. These Chinese who attack Siwon over such small thing seem brainwashed to me.

 

[blueberries]

It's also not morally right to be silent about these things- and even less to support them- because of monetary gain. Like when Blizzard supported China by banning Hong Kong player from their tournament, that inspired Blizzard Boycot and even american politicians wrote to Blizzard to express their distaste of selling freedom of speech for Chinese money. I do somewhat get it more with idols, their whole livelihood might be based in China, but still that doesn't make it alright to support totalitarian regime and human rights violations. And besides disliking goverment and it's policies doesn't mean you hate the people anyways.

 

[Abeamus]

It's also not morally right to be silent about these things- and even less to support them- because of monetary gain. Like when Blizzard supported China by banning Hong Kong player from their tournament, that inspired Blizzard Boycot and even american politicians wrote to Blizzard to express their distaste of selling freedom of speech for Chinese money. I do somewhat get it more with idols, their whole livelihood might be based in China, but still that doesn't make it alright to support totalitarian regime and human rights violations. And besides disliking goverment and it's policies doesn't mean you hate the people anyways.

I think most cases pressure from other countries does work however when it comes China at least the people there trust their government which is going to make it harder to provoke people to want change there as they believe their government is doing the right thing.

China will probably play just ball as long as they need to till they can get the world leadership power they want then try something again.

 

[blueberries]

I think most cases pressure from other countries does work however when it comes China at least the people there trust their government which is going to make it harder to provoke people to want change there as they believe their government is doing the right thing.

China will probably play just ball as long as they need to till they can get the world leadership power they want then try something again.

Yea, but also because eyes of whole world is on them right now they cannot use military force in HK. They have had their army parked right next to HK a while now, but they cannot make another Tiananmen square massacre happen, it would be bad for their economy cause other countries wouldn't stay idle. China is currently negotiating trade deals with USA that are pretty important and they don't want to put those in jeopardy.

 

[Abeamus]

Yea, but also because eyes of whole world is on them right now they cannot use military force in HK. They have had their army parked right next to HK a while now, but they cannot make another Tiananmen square massacre happen, it would be bad for their economy cause other countries wouldn't stay idle. China is currently negotiating trade deals with USA that are pretty important and they don't want to put those in jeopardy.

It is definitely the best solution for now since at the moment they are in a position where they'd take the bigger hit from the loss of trading with other countries that their actions could cause them but if they did get into a position where other countries would be losing more then there is nothing to say they wouldn't try it again.

 

[blueberries]

@blueberries

Did so. Sorry for quoting you about it.

 

[blueberries]

It is definitely the best solution for now since at the moment they are in a position where they'd take the bigger hit from the loss of trading with other countries that their actions could cause them but if they did get into a position where other countries would be losing more then there is nothing to say they wouldn't try it again.

Yes definitely, money is pretty much ruling to world and it is also being used as political power in both sides. Europe and US used it against Russia when Russia attacked Ukraine. China is using it against businesses that speak against it's policies and don't follow it's views, and countries as well that's why they aren't more vocal in goverment level about human rights violations.