Ordinary Chinese have gotten so fed up with the endless Flu Manchu lockdowns that they’ve started mass protests in multiple cities, even going so far as to demand the CCP and Xi Jinping step down.
Some commenters have even suggested that a revolution is the offing. I’ve seen too many hopeful shoots of Democracy crushed in not only China, but also Iran, Russia, Venezuela, etc. to have much optimism on this front. It would be nice to be proved wrong.
So how are Chinese communist authorities fighting the movement? Would you believe with pornbots?
As Chinese citizens take to the streets to protest the county’s “Zero Covid” policies and President Xi Jinping’s lockdowns, searches for names of cities and hashtags regarding the protests on Twitter have been filled with sexually explicit posts and ads for escorts to reportedly block out news of the massive protests.
Searches for the names of major Chinese cities have resulted in a massive spike in content for porn, escorts, and gambling, “drowning out legitimate search results,” wrote Twitter user Air-Moving Device. The account shared a chart showing a massive spike in the number of accounts posting such content on November 28. “Data analysis in this thread suggests that there has been a significantuptick in these spam tweets.”
For example, searching for the Chinese characters for Shanghai (上海) brings up the following on Twitter:
their white cords and scarlet coats gleaming in the sun. Ladies were chiefly pic.twitter.com/ZS1TDDzpqZ
— 处女 学生 北京 上海 杭州 广州 空姐 南京 成都 (@Ilse50595071) November 29, 2022
Iusto quasi eos repellat doloribus soluta odio. #太原 #南通 pic.twitter.com/PRr6FIo8qW
— 杭州 深圳 上海 天津 惠州 宁波 盐城 郑州 大连 烟台 山东 武汉 佛山 泉州 (@Valenti23411381) November 29, 2022
And hundreds of duplicates of those and others, all of which seem to be pretty tame by Western twitter standards.
So just like in so many other areas, Chinese pornbots are clearly inferior to American pornbots…
Tags: China, Communism, coronavirus, Foreign Policy, video, Xi Jinping
Ray Bradbury once wrote a story about a culture war tactic. The East (I don’t remember if it was the Soviets or the ChiComs, or some stand-in) had started broadcasting porn on public wavelengths as a tool to undermine the West and Western values/morality. Disrupt the moral fiber of the enemy and watch said enemy destroy itself via decadence.
_I Remember Babylon_.
I need to track down, and re-read, that story.
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