The study was conducted on microblog networks in China. The people who use the networks have plenty to be angry about, and few other channels for expressing dis

The study was conducted on microblog networks in China. The people who use the networks have plenty to be angry about, and few other channels for expressing dissent. The fine article submitted here correctly notes that this is not a finding about the West, and so the first thing to do to find out how general this phenomenon is is to study the West directly. "Of course, it would be interesting to see whether the same effect can be observed in western networks such as Twitter. That should be relatively straightforward to find out given the growing interest in sentiment analysis and the increasingly effective tools available to carry it out." So, yes, let's see what we find out when other social networks are put to the same test. And let's see what is found in China someday when China has a free press and an open political system.