Buying Influence: How China manipulates Facebook and Twitter

Post by akomtu » Wed, Dec 22, 2021, 9:42 PM UTC

synergy20 wrote: post #104

gentleman11 wrote: post #21

Imagine living somewhere like China and not liking it. It would be hellish, you couldn’t even talk about it without a police visit or your boss passing trouble along to you. A giant human spirit grinder

This did not get to the bottom, the police will visit all your family members actually. You will simply give up and shut up as the cops will harass/threaten your family members. It's a common practice for many years and it's getting 10X worse under Xi, who is said to be the designer of "Culture Revolution 2.0" these days, who already painted every other countries(especially USA) to be enemies(except for North Korea,…

Post by dnautics » Wed, Dec 22, 2021, 9:43 PM UTC

88840-8855 wrote: post #151

fishtacos wrote: post #133

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You forgot the /s tag, methinks: "If i could vote for the CCP here in germany, i would." You could not vote for a system like that - if you did, you'd stop having a right to vote for a different system RIGHT after. 'nuff said. It's unfathomable someone in 2021, that is not a Xi-paid troll (precisely what this article is about) would advocate for more authoritarian control, rather than less. The people you spoke to (i…

"EVERYONE IS BRAINWASHED EXCEPT OF US BLESSED AMERICANS" F15 flyover bombing of some random civilians cool individualism that was build on exploitation of the planet and the 90% of the world KEK, sustainable, mate. China workd. I lived there for years and people were happier than here in Germany. I am just sooooooo sick and tired of those anti-China sentiment here in HN. EVERY SINGLE TIME a china article is posted, y…

Post by pphysch » Wed, Dec 22, 2021, 9:44 PM UTC

Jerrrry wrote: post #67

foverzar wrote: post #40

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The idea of "whataboutism" and attempting to present it as something inherently wrong awfully seems like a convenient way to dismiss uncomfortable points of the discussion and turn it into yet another two minutes hate. Comparing how different agents deal with similar problems is not a thoughtcrime, you know. It is quite a healthy way of understanding how such problems arise and how to deal with them.

whatboutism is whataboutism

Post by datavirtue » Wed, Dec 22, 2021, 9:46 PM UTC

zhoujianfu wrote: post #99

vmception wrote: post #23

So I actually paid for subscriptions to a couple of these news sites and they keep forgetting my session and lack a deeplinking feature to their app which doesnt forget my session I would rather they starve due to lack of revenue at this point so they actually do something competitive

I don’t understand why a site like a news site would EVER time out your session. Or at least not unless there’s been like 6+ months of inactivity. So crazy every time I visit nytimes.com (from the same phone) I have to sign in again.

Post by kwere » Wed, Dec 22, 2021, 9:48 PM UTC

akomtu wrote: post #171

synergy20 wrote: post #104

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This did not get to the bottom, the police will visit all your family members actually. You will simply give up and shut up as the cops will harass/threaten your family members. It's a common practice for many years and it's getting 10X worse under Xi, who is said to be the designer of "Culture Revolution 2.0" these days, who already painted every other countries(especially USA) to be enemies(except for North Korea,…

On a related note, we have here in the US a sudden wave of "culture revolution 3.0" with its proponents using the very same tactics. It's well known that Xi is preparing to enter the chip manufacturing business in 10 years, and since US is the only real opponent, Xi wisely chose to disarm us with the adapted version of "culture revolution". For this reason, I believe, he'll massively increase investments in pushing t…