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@littleshebear @interventionistischelinke

"An attempt to flood social media platforms with spam in order to drown out coverage of the lockdown protests in China was probably backed by the Chinese government, according to analysis by a US cybersecurity firm."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/04/china-accused-of-flooding-social-media-spam-covid-protests

#ChinaRiots #chinacovidprotest #shanghai #Censorship #foxconnprotest

China accused of flooding social media with spam to crowd out protest news

US firm says network of bot accounts also hijacking hashtags in large-scale attempt to obscure coverage

The Guardian
Suswati Basu (巴苏) Nov 29, 2022

Looking at Weibo workarounds in this - the ingenious ways social media users in China are bypassing censors

https://www.nationalworld.com/news/world/china-covid-lockdown-protests-how-social-media-users-are-bypassing-censors-3935716

#china #COVID19 #北京 #白纸革命 #chinalockdown #广州 #富士山 #ChinaRiots

China Covid lockdown protests: how social media users are bypassing censors

Protests against China’s Covid-19 lockdown policy have led to a crackdown on national social media platforms

NationalWorld
Sean O’GradyNov 28, 2022
Are the #ChinaRiots and #ChinaProtests a pre-revolutionary moment? https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/editorials/protests-china-zero-covid-policy-shanghai-b2234717.html?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1669671743
#china人一周工作
Protests in China have a pre-revolutionary feel to them

Editorial: Xinjiang happens to be one of the many areas where the usual modest-sized (but noisy) protests about routine concerns have evolved into larger, less orderly and rather more politically charged protests

The Independent
Jim KingNov 28, 2022

#riots #IranianWomen #ChinaRiots

With all the protest riots against authoritarian regimes, you realize that people can only take it so long before saying ‘enough is enough’

Just finished Disney’s Andor & the citizens talk of ‘law & order’ but soon realize that overzealous ‘ORDER’ is just another term for prison

JimK; Humanity over Flag