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> they've already got him banning chinese journalists and pushing the state position Mind elaborating on this? Would be a shame if something so important got l

• paulmd 4y ago
  This is what I was thinking of. China was suppressing information about the protests online by having Twitter ban activists, arresting (and beating) journalists, and running a spam campaign at the same time to push the results out of the feed. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/11/elon-musk-slashed-twitters-safety-team-then-a-chinese-spam-campaign-ran-rampant https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/11/elon-musk-slashed-tw... https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/28/chinese-bots-flood-twitter-in-attempt-to-obscure-covid-protests https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/28/chinese-b... https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/twitter-elon-musk-china-dissidents-1234643726/ https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/twitte... HRW points out the general problem here, predictably it came to pass less than a month later lol. https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/11/02/why-twitter-under-elon-musk-good-news-chinas-rulers https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/11/02/why-twitter-under-elon-m...