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Re:China sows disinformation on Hong Kong using porn account... by throwawaywego on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @12:30PM (#20868238)
It is a restate of the conspiratorial claim in my first post. One is justified to say anything one pleases, but it could still be a detraction or pointless speculation: "News flash: Alice Zhang has long hair. Women frequently have long hair. But, Bobby Joe is a surfer dude, and surfer dudes like long hair and frequently have long hair too. I haven't seen Bobby yet, or saw a photo of him, but I relevantly pose that I am justified in saying -- using my a priori knowledge of surfer dudes -- that Bobby, a man, likely has long hair too. My evidence is that Bobby, being a surfer dude, has an incentive to like long hair. I am not contradicting that Alice does not have long hair, just complementing the discussion with extensively documented history of surfer dudes and the likelihood of Bobby's hair length."
Re:China sows disinformation on Hong Kong using porn account... by guerrilla on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @12:48PM (#20868453)
> One is justified to say anything one pleases

One is not justified in belieiving anything one pleases. There are things which are justified and things which are not and a coherent epistemology distinguishes between the two.

Re:China sows disinformation on Hong Kong using porn account... by elefanten on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @05:26PM (#20871357)
Can you describe your coherent epistemology? The one that leads you to believe a throughly context-free, slapdash list of low-quality wiki text spanning hundreds of topics over hundreds of years counts as a citable piece of evidence for... anything really?
Re:China sows disinformation on Hong Kong using porn account... by guerrilla on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @11:34PM (#20873782)
> that leads you to believe

It doesn't. It's just a summary, akin to a comment.

> evidence for

It wasn't intended to be evidnence for anything but a reminder of the pattern of behavior that the US is throughoughly documented (elsewhere) to have engaged in over the years.