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Or, to put it another way, average commenters are fighting against coordinated groups of state actors just to have genuine discussions. And it would shock me if Vietnam was a leader in this space. It's like how ads pit big bags of mostly water against billions of dollars worth of psychological manipulation. Us mere mortals have no chance.
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Does Facebook have rules that are consistently applied to every country? AFAIK, Facebook complies with the local governments' requirements everywhere it operates even though they will occasionally publicize some resistance.
There is no local law in Vietnam that says "you must allow the state's army of troll bots to harass anyone in the world that speaks Vietnamese". Facebook isn't complying with any local law here, and the behaviour in question isn't isolated to users in Vietnam. They are turning a blind eye to avoid retaliation for applying the same rules they'd apply elsewhere.
The UK has the 77th Brigade for this: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/inside-the-77th-brigade-brit... It has allegedly targeted Covid policy dissenters like Peter Hitchens.
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Does Facebook have rules that are consistently applied to every country? AFAIK, Facebook complies with the local governments' requirements everywhere it operates even though they will occasionally publicize some resistance.
There is no local law in Vietnam that says "you must allow the state's army of troll bots to harass anyone in the world that speaks Vietnamese". Facebook isn't complying with any local law here, and the behaviour in question isn't isolated to users in Vietnam. They are turning a blind eye to avoid retaliation for applying the same rules they'd apply elsewhere.
Or, to put it another way, average commenters are fighting against coordinated groups of state actors just to have genuine discussions. And it would shock me if Vietnam was a leader in this space. It's like how ads pit big bags of mostly water against billions of dollars worth of psychological manipulation. Us mere mortals have no chance.
I once read is that if an activist movement rises they prop a flawed individual, find as much as info as they can, and at an opportune moment they ‘out’ the leader.
Apparently this happened with the Occupy movement.
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I thought Prez in Vietname is more or less powerless position. Real power lies in the Central Military Commision and Party General Secretary just like China.
Party Secretary is #1 (always). Prime Minister and President is #2 and #3, with exact power ordering depends on the specific person in the role. Head of Congress is #4 with some distance with the other 3 roles. Supposedly, the top 3 role has almost the same power and that was how we keep dictator in check. All three positions are in the Central Military Commission. China uses a different system, they have a designate…
So Facebook is complicit in allowing its platform to be weaponized by the state against all speakers of Vietnamese (in and outside of the country). When questioned, they simply shrug their shoulders and say "if we did anything to stop this, our platform would be banned in Vietnam." I'm beyond the point of expecting anything more from Facebook, but I would think the US government should have some leverage here. Vietna…
It's taken me years but I think he's a 'bad guy'.
I think he'll err always on the side of money and really strongly look the other way.
I think it might have a lot to do with isolation.
Also, weirdly, I think Zuck, Musk get 'attacked' for their actions, and knowing that most of their actions are not really bad, they get defensive and reactionary. I think they lose their grounding and get deluded.
As far as I know the definition of a troll is "someone who posts inflammatory, irrelevant, offensive or other disruptive content to get a (bad) reaction from others". Are they doing that?
Or, to put it another way, average commenters are fighting against coordinated groups of state actors just to have genuine discussions. And it would shock me if Vietnam was a leader in this space. It's like how ads pit big bags of mostly water against billions of dollars worth of psychological manipulation. Us mere mortals have no chance.
Russia is known to have loads of trolls on the government payroll. I am under the impression that western governments don't do this but who knows...