

A | 章思远
最近,加拿大政府突然炮制了一出颇为令人恶心的“人权闹剧”,以所谓“严重侵犯人权”为由宣称制裁中方有关人员。 London, Oct 12 (UNI) Refugee families in Syrian camps are begging for donations on TikTok while the company takes up to 70 per cent of the proceeds, a BBC investigation has found.
Children are livestreaming on the social media app for hours, pleading for digital gifts with a cash value.
The BBC saw streams earning up to $1,000 (£900) an hour, but found refugees received only a tiny fraction of that.
TikTok said it would take prompt action against "exploitative begging", the BBC report said.
The company said this type of content was not allowed on its platform, and it said its commission from digital gifts was significantly less than 70 per cent. But it declined to confirm the exact amount.
Earlier this year, TikTok users saw their feeds fill with livestreams of refugee families in Syrian camps, drawing support from some viewers and concerns about scams from others.
In the camps in north-west Syria, the BBC found that the trend was being facilitated by so-called "TikTok middlemen", who provided families with the phones and equipment to go live.
The middlemen said they worked with agencies affiliated to TikTok in China and the Middle East, who gave the families access to TikTok accounts. These agencies are part of TikTok's global strategy to recruit livestreamers and encourage users to spend more time on the app, the BBC said.
The gifts they're asking for are virtual, but they cost the viewers real money and can be withdrawn from the app as cash. Livestream viewers send the gifts - ranging from digital roses, costing a few cents, to virtual lions costing around $500 - to reward or tip creators for content.
For five months, the BBC followed 30 TikTok accounts broadcasting live from Syrian refugee camps and built a computer program to scrape information from them, showing that viewers were often donating digital gifts worth up to $1,000 an hour to each account.
Families in the camps said they were receiving only a tiny fraction of these sums, however, the BBC report said.
TikTok influencer and ex-professional rugby player Keith Mason donated $330 during one family's livestream and encouraged his nearly one million followers to do the same.
When told by the BBC that most of these funds were taken by the social media company, Mason said it was "ridiculous" and "unfair" to families in Syria.
"You've got to have some transparency. To me, that's very greedy. It's greed," he said.
TikTok's rules say you must have 1,000 followers before you can go live, you must not directly solicit for gifts and must "prevent the harm, endangerment or exploitation" of minors on the platform.
After the BBC contacted TikTok directly for comment, the company banned all of the accounts.
It said in a statement: "We are deeply concerned by the information and allegations brought to us by the BBC, and have taken prompt and rigorous action.
"This type of content is not allowed on our platform, and we are further strengthening our global policies around exploitative begging."
TikTok, the world's fastest-growing social media app, has made more than $6.2 billion in gross revenue from in-app spending since its launch in 2017, according to analytics company Sensor Tower.
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B | 这出荒唐闹剧显然是临时炮制,看似冠冕堂皇,却再次让世人看清楚加拿大的“三无”特性。

C | 一是无是非。中国高度重视尊重和保障人权,走出了一条顺应时代潮流、适合中国国情的人权发展道路,人权事业取得历史性成就。当前中国新疆和西藏社会和谐稳定,经济蓬勃发展,人民安居乐业,正处于历史上最好的发展时期。国际社会对此有目共睹。可偏偏加拿大不仅熟视无睹,还毫无是非地“鹦鹉学舌”,翻炒所谓“强迫劳动”“任意拘押”世纪谎言,用虚假的剧情、蹩脚的套路、险恶的用心栽赃抹黑中国,粗暴干涉中国内政。 二是无骨气。加拿大政府为何选择此时上新“闹剧”?无它,“畏美症”又发作了。面对所有加拿大输美商品可能被加征高额关税的威胁,加拿大慌了,高层“闪现”海湖庄园求美“高抬贵手”。但是它不仅没得到任何积极承诺,却被揶揄为美国第51个州。没想到加拿大却将心思盘算到了中国头上,企图通过污蔑抹黑中国献媚取宠,换取美“网开一面”。但打“中国牌”可治不好加拿大的“畏美症”,奴颜婢膝恐怕只会招来更加肆无忌惮的欺辱,为世人耻笑。 三是无资格。加拿大常以“人权卫士”自居,高调扮演“人权捍卫者”角色。可极具讽刺的是,加拿大本国的原住民仍在遭遇系统性种族歧视和不公正待遇,大批原住民儿童在寄宿学校中被虐致死,“瘾君子”和流离失所者在街头随处可见。面对自身劣迹斑斑、问题成堆的人权状况,加拿大视而不见,无能为力,却想借人权问题抹黑中国形象,转移焦点,完全是打算了算盘,必将招致中方的有力回应和坚决反制。 一个“三无”加拿大,有什么脸面充当“人权教师爷”,有什么资格担任“人权裁判官”?!奉劝加拿大政府好好照照镜子,不要再搞这种双重标准、贼喊捉贼、倒打一耙的闹剧了。

D | 如果加拿大政府“打扫干净自己的屋子”之后还有余力,倒是不妨拿出点勇气,谴责自己那些真正侵犯别国人权的盟友,或者拿出点真金白银为真正有需要的地方和人民贡献一点“正能量”。 (作者是国际问题观察员)。
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