[andrewflnr]

Actually, the timeline indicates to me that it was automatic. Considering that they wouldn't assign someone solely to watch one journalist's account for infrequent changes, I think it's unlikely that any human saw it in the first few seconds after it happened and took it on themselves to take irrevocable action in the next second after that. My feeling is that queueing delays of various sorts took up most of the 45 seconds, but I would love to hear better ideas on that point.

Would a native Chinese speaker even have that visceral emotional reaction to English profanity? I'm curious about how that impact translates.

[BluePen7]

They don't need to have a visceral emotional reaction, they just need to know it's a strong anti-CCP sentiment. Given how frequently we use Fuck ____ in English for things we don't like (Fuck Cancer, Fuck the police, etc), it's a pretty obvious one.

I'd also assume they'd assign the english speaking North American dissidents to a monitoring person who speaks good english.