China erases Celtics media after Enes Kanter criticizes government’s repression The NBA’s Chinese broadcast partner abruptly erased Boston Celtics highlights and live streams from its website and app on Thursday, not long after Celtics center Enes Kanter called China’s leader, Xi Jinping, a "brutal dictator.” Kanter, in multiple social media posts on Wednesday, spoke out against “cultural genocide” in Tibet, an autonomous region to the west of China where the Chinese government has cracked down on freedoms and exerted control. The swift response of Tencent, a Chinese internet technology company that in 2019 agreed to a five-year, $1.5 billion expansion…
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