This is so typical of communism.
A top leader of Vietnam’s Communist Party is being blasted after he was captured on video dining on a gold-flecked steak cooked up by a celebrity chef in London.
The video was originally posted on celebrity chef Nusret Gokce's official TikTok account.
It showed Vietnam's Minister of Public Security, To Lam, being fed a gold leaf encrusted steak by the Instagram-famous chef at his London restaurant, where a steak sells for up to 1,450 pounds ($1,960).
Lam was traveling to the UN Climate Change conference in Glasgow, but stopped off in Britain to visit Karl Marx’s grave.
No joke, after visiting Marx’s grave he dined on a $2,000 steak. Sounds like a true revolutionary and man of the people.
What makes the matter even worse is that Facebook tried to suppress the video as it went viral by blocking the hashtag #SaltBae which is associated with the celebrity chef Nusret Gokce.
It wasn’t until news outlets started asking Facebook question, that the tech giant unblocked the hashtag.
“Facebook's parent company said on Tuesday it had unblocked the hashtag for celebrity chef Nusret Gokce's nickname '#saltbae', having found the tag had been blocked globally days after a video was posted online of Gokce feeding a gold-encrusted steak to a senior Vietnamese Communist Party official in London.
"We've unblocked this hashtag on Facebook and we're investigating why this happened," a spokesperson for Facebook operator Meta (FB.O) told Reuters, confirming the tag had been blocked for all Facebook users around the world, not just in Vietnam.
It wasn't immediately clear why the tag had been blocked, and the spokesperson declined to comment on potential reasons. While it was blocked, a search for the hashtag generated a message saying community standards had been violated.”
The video, originally posted on Gokce's official TikTok account, showed Vietnam's Minister of Public Security, To Lam, filmed last week being fed a gold leaf encrusted steak by the Instagram-famous chef - often pictured theatrically seasoning and slicing cuts of meat - at his London restaurant, where a steak sells for up to 1,450 pounds ($1,960).
Lam, 64, was in Britain during a visit by senior Vietnamese officials to the U.N. climate conference, COP26, in Glasgow. But images of him chewing on the gilded beef caused a stir both on and offline in Vietnam, with many questioning how such a high-ranking Party official allowed himself to be caught on camera indulging in food carrying such a high price tag amid a state crackdown on corruption.”
Sounds like Facebook wanted to protect a Communist official and thus sought to suppress dissemination of the video.