"Dear Chinese Government," began a message sent from Twitter CEO Dick Costolo
"Dear Chinese Government," began a message sent from Twitter CEO Dick Costolo.
"Year-long detentions for sending a sarcastic tweet are neither the way forward nor the future of your great people," he wrote on his Twitter profile.
Costolo's edict is no doubt a response to the Chinese woman who had been sentenced to a year in a labour camp for retweeting a message that officials in China disapproved of.
The tweet mocked Chinese people who were protesting Japanese products.
In an hour, Costolo's message had well surpassed a hundred retweets. A Chinese government official could not be reached for comment on the tweet.
Chinese leaders have not been keen on information-sharing services like Twitter in the past.u00a0 China has censored or blocked access to the website during major events, along with other blogs and social networks.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg used his own website as a platform for talking about China recently, though his message was decidedly less controversial.
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