Re:How the Chinese Government Fakes Social Media Posts for S...
by splittingTimes on Thursday November 16, 2017 @04:14AM
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Exactely. China is playing the same game as the West has for at least decade now. Examples that come to mind [1,2].
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[1] https://www.theguardian.com/media/2006/nov/20/mondaymediasec...
[2] HBGary was contracted by the USG to build a tool that is "creating an army of sockpuppets, with sophisticated "persona management" software that allows a small team of only a few people to appear to be many, while keeping the personas from accidentally cross-contaminating each other. Then, to top it off, the team can actually automate some functions so one persona can appear to be an entire Brooks Brothers riot online."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2231471
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-op...
I dislike the way much of our media talks about “bad” things China does without discussing how the US does similar things. “Hacking” is the one I hear about China doing all the time, despite it being well known that the US government is heavily involved in global hacking efforts and is in fact the strongest player in the field. Yet I hear little about that and too much about China and Russias efforts there.
Perhaps if we acknowledged that all nations do these things, we’d have a different outlook on the issue than we would if we imagined this was a problem with “them”.