[wodenokoto]

> At this time the public opinion control system warning was triggered, and manual intervention began. ... manual intervention could not keep up with the speed of retweeting and posting. All available staff were called up to support the suppression effort.

How does the authors know all this? This sounds like super detailed insider information.

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>> At this time the public opinion control system warning was triggered, and manual intervention began. ... manual intervention could not keep up with the speed of retweeting and posting. All available staff were called up to support the suppression effort.

> How does the authors know all this? This sounds like super detailed insider information.

My guess is it's made up: it reads like sci-fi (take an idea, and hang some plausible-sounding narrative on it), and I doubt someone actually privy to the inner workings of the Chinese censorship apparatus probably not say "retweeting."

Also:

>> View from China with an Austrian School of Economics Perspective

This (and a few other things) give me the impression of someone who thinks their ideology lets them see through walls, so to speak.

[robocat]

> All available staff were called up to support the suppression effort.

  The orders already issuing from the telescreen, recalling them to their posts, were hardly necessary. Oceania was at war with Eastasia: Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia. A large part of the political literature of five years was now completely obsolete. Reports and records of all kinds, newspapers, books, pamphlets, films, sound−tracks, photographs all had to be rectified at lightning speed. Although no directive was ever issued, it was known that the chiefs of the Department intended that within one week no reference to the war with Eurasia, or the alliance with Eastasia, should remain in existence anywhere. The work was overwhelming, all the more so because the processes that it involved could not be called by their true names. Everyone in the Records Department worked eighteen hours in the twenty−four, with two three−hour snatches of sleep.

  - excerpt from 1984

https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100021h.html#ch17

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Quotes from 1984 are cliche, and they tend to obscure more than they elucidate.

[visarga]

After this I bet they will create mechanisms to automatically ban videos if they didn't already have one.