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>“Post around 8:20”? Ho had goofed. The movie star uploaded not only his sharply critical posting at 8:26 P.M., but he also posted the instructions he receive

>“Post around 8:20”? Ho had goofed. The movie star uploaded not only his sharply critical posting at 8:26 P.M., but he also posted the instructions he received from some other party. He is a Samsung Galaxy spokesman, but no one is fingering the Korean brand as the culprit. So who told Ho to post “around 8:20”? For China’s noisy netizens, there was only one suspect: CCTV. Weibo users immediately pounced, noting that there were other anti-Apple postings around that time. By 8:45 P.M. comments criticizing the inattentive Mr. Ho were overwhelming the anti-Apple postings. Ho, at 10:08 P.M., deleted his original posting and then denied he authored the attack on Apple, claiming that someone had “hacked” his Weibo account. Just about nobody believed the denial. Users began posting acerbic comments with the #PostAround8:20 hashtag. Weibo censors later deleted tens of thousands of postings with that hashtag. Surreal.

axusgrad 14y ago
Maybe CCTV came up with the idea on their own, to sell a story. I wonder what the process for getting government approval is like for them? Is there a government office that takes applications for public propaganda campaigns? Do they just call Hu Jintao's cell phone?
Evbn 14y ago
Consider: if a movie star is a puppet of the government, and he posts statements that they demand, or if he is coerced into sharing his password, that is effectively the same as being hacked, via social engineering / state force.
anywhichway 14y ago
Seems to me that it is more likely that Samsung, who he is an official spokesman for, told him to post that as part of his duties as spokesman. Also it seems more likely that Samsung is behind the CCTV campaign as they are the ones that would gain from such a message, so I'm not sure why people are putting it on CCTV as the orchestrator. In my opinion the worst violation of this story is the weibo censorship following the incident.

axusgrad 14y ago

Maybe CCTV came up with the idea on their own, to sell a story. I wonder what the process for getting government approval is like for them? Is there a government office that takes applications for public propaganda campaigns? Do they just call Hu Jintao's cell phone?

Evbn 14y ago

Consider: if a movie star is a puppet of the government, and he posts statements that they demand, or if he is coerced into sharing his password, that is effectively the same as being hacked, via social engineering / state force.

anywhichway 14y ago

Seems to me that it is more likely that Samsung, who he is an official spokesman for, told him to post that as part of his duties as spokesman. Also it seems more likely that Samsung is behind the CCTV campaign as they are the ones that would gain from such a message, so I'm not sure why people are putting it on CCTV as the orchestrator. In my opinion the worst violation of this story is the weibo censorship following the incident.