| > That's just silly. China hasn't infiltrated HN. This kind of assumption is naive (no offense) and reminds me of the denialism regarding Russian disinformation. You do not need to "infiltrate" the site with "agents". It's fairly easy to write a script checking the front page for mentions of China and manually checking the thread to possibly respond with a comment. Before dismissing concerns like this as conspiratorial or silly, you should do some research on the topic: [1] https://gking.harvard.edu/files/gking/files/50c.pdf?m=146479... [2] https://www.info-res.org/post/revealed-coordinated-attempt-t... [3] https://www.techdirt.com/2021/12/15/how-china-uses-western-i... [4] https://www.state.gov/prc-efforts-to-manipulate-global-publi... [5] https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/05/dozens-of-fake-news-websites... [6] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/28/china-m... [7] https://www.lawfareblog.com/understanding-pro-china-propagan... [8] https://mediamanipulation.org/case-studies/astroturfing-how-... > the general implication here on HN is that China is the current Big Bad and everything they do is uniquely bad The CCP is hostile to many Western values (e.g. free speech) and they are a primary geopolitical antagonist to the U.S. It's not unreasonable for a mostly U.S. user base to see the worst in CCP behavior or be biased against the CCP. |
> The CCP is hostile to many Western values (e.g. free speech) and they are a primary geopolitical antagonist to the U.S. It's not unreasonable for a mostly U.S. user base to see the worst in CCP behavior or be biased against the CCP.
That's neither here nor there. This is what I'm actually replying to:
> Did the article imply somewhere that China is unique in it's censorship?
And my answer is: maybe not the article itself, but everything that gets said here on HN (where the article got quoted) has that implication. In fact, your very answer has that explicit implication! So you are proving my point.