> Most people won't support your opinion - because they are paid trolls (a large fraction of app posts, because a comparatively small - 'only' hundreds of thous

> Most people won't support your opinion - because they are paid trolls (a large fraction of app posts, because a comparatively small - 'only' hundreds of thousands - trolls post in insane quantities) and because many online spaces are shaped by trolls and by people who are too afraid of expressing their opinion freely. I wonder if that situation is exclusively true in China, or if similar situations exist where it is covert, rather than overt.