[abjKT26nO8]

> I think this is just a case of fighting low-quality comments rather than deliberate censoring of anti-CCP political speech.

As opposed to what comments? I've never seen a non-low-quality comment on YouTube.

[dylz]

High-effort spam. I've seen URLs advertised by combining 3 accounts worth of ascii-art.

It's almost an art form in itself, like when World of Warcraft trials didn't allow chat and spammers would just sign in to a hundred accounts and die in the shape of the domain name with all the corpses.

[FooBarWidget]

I have. Ironically, in non-anti-CCP videos, which tend to attract people who are tired of western narratives of China.

Their comments still aren't Hacker News quality, but they are far above the Youtube average.

For example, check the comments at https://youtu.be/ufxfSJgQuSI