Kodak has deleted pictures of Xianjiang Uyghurs from their Instagram after pressure from Chinese media & commentors

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Wow I saw that post without any of the original context and assumed that the photog had posted something racist/offensive. To see why they actually removed it….that’s super disappointing.

Edit: The number of people responding to this and claiming it’s American propaganda is also super fucking disappointing.

If you are horrified by the US locking immigrants up in “detention facilities”, you should be horrified by what is happening to the Uyghurs. Full stop.

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Yeah, Chinese people believe it's both racist and offensive (to their reality, to their facts, to their culture, to their politics, to their patriotism). What matters in dealing with China is perspective.

That all said, it's hard for me to believe that the Chinese government would actually sanction them in any way over a few weak online protests, given how small Kodak is and secondarily, just how unknown they are there. Whatever initial 'netizen' criticism there was in Chinese social media has probably already been censored because the people can't even have a hint of truth that there may be some kind of controversy over Xinjiang related to human rights.

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That’s not necessarily true, since Kodak Alaris is owned by a Chinese company, so the higher ups in Alaris probably have a good amount of information and sway over the social media presence

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Not entirely but there is truth in what you say and it seems the chemicals and paper are made there.

According to a document lodged with the UK’s Company House on November 23, the Board of the Pension Protection Fund holds ’75 percent or more’ of the shares of Kodak Alaris, ’75 percent or more’ of the voting rights of Kodak Alaris, and can appoint or remove the majority of the Board of Directors of the company. (The PPF in fact holds 100 percent of the shares in Kodak Alaris.)