It's strange to me how much emphasis they're putting on the tweet. Wasn't the spark that incensed China so much their decision to list Tibet as a country in the survey?
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#12Firing the employee seems counterproductive. It hurts morale, and doesn't actually solve the problem.
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#15If you suggested Nebraska was independent, nobody would flip out, because it's nonsense. Unfortunately large industrial empires need space and resources and so it's necessary to expand beyond what might be the "real" border of your country. But who's to complain? Everyone likes the Dali Lama, but capitalism doesn't allow you to choose karma over cash.
Western China is a combination of agriculture, and completely barren, unused land. They have plenty, without Tibet and Taiwan. There's another reason, here.
> Tibet has huge reserves of copper, lithium, gold and silver. Most of it has never been touched, because the Tibetans didn't mine the land: it's against their religious practices to disturb the ground. But China has begun mining on an enormous scale.
from https://www.pri.org/stories/2014-11-24/new-book-documents-ch...
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#16Sounds like the script of a Black Mirror episode to me.
Came here to say this, and cant even really connect the dots on how a hotel chain recognizing a country or not is not the bigger deal than liking a twitter post. Shoot, if I were in the same position I would think I was promoting the chain by liking posts related to it. Complete insanity.
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#17If Marriott were really serious, they should have fired the survey writer instead. They again, maybe that person was fired too.
But as to appeasing China, well... I'm not sympathetic.
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#18Surprised no one asks the obvious question: why doesn’t Twitter (“can’t make any money”) charge for running a tweet competition and fix their bot problem.
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#19Well, I certainly won't be staying at any Marriott hotels any more. That's an abysmal way of handling things.
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#20Surprised no one asks the obvious question: why doesn’t Twitter (“can’t make any money”) charge for running a tweet competition and fix their bot problem.
Because they don’t want to fix their bots; it boosts their. numbers