I wonder if these researchers ever visited the Chinese internet? They dissect their heirarchy and composition, yet not their effectiveness or reputation? The C

I wonder if these researchers ever visited the Chinese internet? They dissect their heirarchy and composition, yet not their effectiveness or reputation? The Chinese people see 50 mao bots from 10 miles away. The very nature of the internet makes humanity question truth and authority. So many sources to visit, so many opinions and so angles to reflect upon. Themes and patterns don’t go so quietly unnoticed on the internet. It seems that even many, many of these sources are far behind, though it is a new policy that US researchers are encouraged to dissect Chinese institutions publicly. This paper would have been groundbreaking in 2010-pre Snowden. Sadly, it is a hay in the growing stack of a US-engineered lashing at Chinese domestic policies.