Scott Wiener is the California Senator representing San Francisco and northern San Mateo counties.
Just a day after Elon Musk reactivated Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Twitter account, she tweeted that I’m a “communist beautician,” presumably Because I’m a gay Jewish Democratic elected official from San Francisco.
In the past, I’ve gotten more and more abuse on social media when Greene has attacked me with homophobic or transphobic tropes, but the escalation was beyond what I’m used to. This escalation was especially evident in the aftermath of the Club Q massacre, not so much with Green, but with Twitter’s new owner, Elon Musk.
Since finally completing his acquisition of Twitter, Musk has brought back some of the platform’s most notoriously banned users. Restoring these accounts, including Donald Trump and Kanye West, would make Twitter even more toxic than before. Bringing them back not only excuses their past actions, but also validates and remembers their words as a pillar for the future growth of the Twitter platform. read more.
What Shanghai protesters want and fear
Nearly three years after the pandemic began, protests have erupted in towns and cities across China. People took to the streets to mourn the lives lost in the Urumqi apartment fire and to demand that the government roll back its strict epidemic policies, which many blame for keeping the dead inside.
It is the largest grassroots protest in China in decades, and it comes at a time when the Chinese government is better than ever at monitoring and suppressing dissent. Yet while discussions among foreigners often reduce the protests to the most lurid episodes, the reality is more complex. While all protesters are opposed to zero-coronavirus containment measures, their reasons and motivations for pushing for change vary widely. read more.
——Yang Zeyi
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