Comment on Resignation of OTW Directors

  1. switchwitchbitch Fri 28 Jul 2023 01:00AM UTC

    They were voicing concerns in Chinese in protest of how OTW was ignoring their safety, and Alex responded in German that they needed a lingua franca to do anything. When they had articulated the same concerns in English and been ignored. This is my understanding of how part of that went down. Caveat that I'm just nobody lol and could be wrong.

    It's related to the "standing up to the Chinese government" comments because the Weibo team, all from mainland China, was asked to promote the rollout of new dialects/languages including Taiwanese. This put them at way more risk than they signed up for when volunteering

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    1. impertinence Fri 28 Jul 2023 01:01AM UTC

      Thank you for the added details!

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    2. foxgloveincense Fri 28 Jul 2023 01:22AM UTC

      Thank you for adding this.

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    3. azarias Fri 28 Jul 2023 03:04AM UTC

      Correction: the safety protest was in 2020 and not conducted in Chinese. The decision to communicate in Chinese as a form of protest was this year, in response to the Org deciding to shut down the Weibo account without consulting any Chinese-speaking volunteers, including the ones responsible for running the Weibo.

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      1. switchwitchbitch Fri 28 Jul 2023 05:31AM UTC

        Thank you very much for the correction!

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