{"id":1291104,"date":"2022-02-11T10:22:30","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T15:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1291104"},"modified":"2022-02-11T10:22:43","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T15:22:43","slug":"genocide-barbie-eileen-gu-blasted-for-claiming-china-has-internet-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/genocide-barbie-eileen-gu-blasted-for-claiming-china-has-internet-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Genocide Barbie Eileen Gu Blasted for Claiming China Has Internet Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgenocide-barbie-eileen-gu-blasted-for-claiming-china-has-internet-freedom%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1291104&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Genocide Barbie Eileen Gu, the U.S.-born skier who competed for China in the Olympics, has been getting blasted on Chinese social media for claiming the governing Communist dictatorship tolerates internet freedom.<\/p>\n<p>While Chinese and American establishment media outlets have been celebrating Gu as a transcendent figure, the commoners of China appear to have discovered the athlete for what she is: an opportunist who blew off the United States to legitimize an oppressive regime.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>On Tuesday, prior to her winning the Gold for China in the women\u2019s freeski big air competion, an Instagram user scolded Gu for failing to see how China stifles freedom of speech.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy can you use Instagram and millions of Chinese people from mainland cannot,\u201d the user said. \u201cWhy you got such special treatment as a Chinese citizen. That\u2019s not fair, can you speak up for those millions of Chinese who don\u2019t have internet freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gu replied:&nbsp;\u201c[A]nyone can download a vpn its literally free on the App Store,\u201d Gu.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_19846082\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1238368447.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19846082\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1238368447-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>China\u2019s Gu Ailing Eileen takes part in a freestyle skiing freeski slopestyle training session during the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games at the Genting Snow Park in Zhangjiakou on February 11, 2022. (BEN STANSALL\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>China allows its citizens to use only its approved social media apps while Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and WhatsApp are blocked in the communist country. Despite that, a screenshot of her post began circulating on the Chinese social media app Weibo and sparked significant backlash, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.protocol.com\/china\/eileen-gu-olympics-vpn-china\">Protocol:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Many Weibo users marveled at Gu\u2019s unwavering ability to push back against \u201ckeyboard warriors\u201d and defend \u201cthe motherland.\u201d Others, however, were irked by Gu\u2019s comment, and invoked the phrase, \u201cWhy don\u2019t they eat minced meat?\u201d \u2014 a quote by a Chinese emperor taken to reflect his frivolous disregard for his famished citizens and his poor understanding of their plight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLiterally, I\u2019m not \u2018anyone.\u2019 Literally, it\u2019s illegal for me to use a VPN. Literally, it\u2019s not fxxking free at all,\u201d one Weibo user railed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Shortly after the Gu\u2019s Instagram screenshot went viral with over 3,000 shares on Weibo, the post was then censored to exclude her bit about the free VPN.<\/p>\n<p>As Breitbart News has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2019\/11\/05\/freedom-house-china-worlds-worst-abuser-internet-freedom-fourth-year\/\">profiled<\/a> numerous times, China has a stranglehold on internet freedom, frequently blocking VPN services and punishing those who try to bypass the censorship while constantly pushing out propaganda of its own.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">China&#8217;s state propaganda shared the effusive praise of American athletes for Chinese Communist Party &#8220;volunteers&#8221; at the Beijing Olympics. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WQ1LEuVbUr\">https:\/\/t.co\/WQ1LEuVbUr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1491921952763781120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 10, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The organization Freedom House has routinely labeled China one of the world\u2019s worst abusers of internet freedom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny athlete, regardless of their nationality, is free to express their political views or not to,\u201d one Chinese WeChat user said of Gu. \u201cBut as a member of the global elite, as a superstar athlete who has a big platform and has spoken out about racism against Asian Americans and aspires to inspire young women, her silence on certain topics and her \u2018Why not eat minced meat\u2019 attitude rubs people the wrong way. She\u2019s just an American guest who is maximizing her personal interests in this chaotic world. That\u2019s all.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genocide Barbie Eileen Gu, the U.S.-born skier who competed for China in the Olympics, has been getting blasted on Chinese social media for claiming the governing Communist dictatorship tolerates internet &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1291104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1291104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1291104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1291104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1291104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}