>The bureaucracy runs all the way to the district level. Local officials scrub the internet of local scandal, pull on snitches in closed chat groups to find loudmouths, call the internet police to harass them, and command troll armies. All these efforts are methodically tracked. скоро в рашке, осталось только snitches доделать, их ещё не видел. >during the outbreak each district in Hangzhou sent back forms at 4:30pm and 5pm summing up their activity for the day. How many harmful posts they deleted, how many accounts they shut. How much traffic gov’t commenters got. >Officials in one district reported that workers in their employ had posted online comments that were read more than 40,000 times, “effectively eliminating city residents’ panic.” Workers in another county boasted of their “severe crackdown” on what they called rumors: 16 people had been investigated by the police, 14 given warnings and two detained. One district said it had 1,500 “cybersoldiers” monitoring closed chat groups on WeChat >Another system to train online commenters allows officials to put trainees onto two teams, and then let them compete to be the most influential with whatever message they are ordered to spread. https://nitter.net/pic/media%2FEpmLOp6U0AMENyV.jpg хорошо придумали! >Larger numbers of online memorials began to disappear. The police detained several people who formed groups to archive deleted posts. >As democracies struggle with the reality distortions of social media, Beijing has weaponized the internet’s power to inflate filter bubbles that help it rule. It’s a key part of its governance system, and something officials want to export. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wnKNKfcal0 >2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bATLEMoi_h0 >2020