4 ms·

Comment about not posting irrelevant inflammatory statements removed and turned into a submission here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17490716 https://ne

• reaperducer 8y ago
  Feels like that HN link a few weeks ago about how China employs tens of thousands of people to derail online discussions that are critical of China, often strawmanning the U.S., and the E.U. instead. Right now on HN two of the top five discussions have been derailed in this manner. Curious.
  • monocasa 8y ago
    "Everyone I don't like is a foreign shill."
  • paradite 8y ago
    I don't want to derail this even further, just want to offer a different point of view. I'm a Chinese citizen, and ever since I started reading HN a few years ago, it feels like the media and comments in general are mostly negative towards China, or specifically to Chinese government. In rare occasions you have people trying to offer some different perspectives from someone who lived in China (like 1 out of 10 comments), but a large percentage of them get downvoted. This has not changed at all. So really, if there were a propaganda effort, it had failed miserably. The audience on HN just don't buy pro-China propaganda (for better or worse). The ironic part about your argument is that whenever there is a positive news about China (like this one), it quickly derails into criticism of China.
    • rdlecler1 8y ago
      There’s some scary things going on in China. The fact you couldn’t have these discussions in China is one and so I see HN as erring I’m the side of skepticism.