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Re:President Daniels responds to Chinese student's harassment by oceanghost on Friday December 17, 2021 @01:31PM (#29596226)
> Would China tolerate US "students" on their land spying, attempting to project US power, or abusing others on their land?

China is the worlds weird abusive ex-boyfriend.

Re:President Daniels responds to Chinese student's harassment by toss1 on Friday December 17, 2021 @01:58PM (#29596701)
yup, abusive, and stalking. Including on HN - every single HN post that opposed CCP actions gets resistance from the handful of guaranteed downvotes to verbose advocacy. Russia has been the undisputed world champion of dezinformatsyia for over a century, but it looks like CCP is coming for their title , especially with their push into the US academic-military realm (and they are shameless about copying US tech, surprising for a culture that values face-saving).
Re:President Daniels responds to Chinese student's harassment by dang on Friday December 17, 2021 @03:48PM (#29598143)
> every single HN post that opposed CCP actions gets resistance from the handful of guaranteed downvotes to verbose advocacy

That is so extremely far from the case that I think it may be a classic example of the notice-dislike bias (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...).

Re:President Daniels responds to Chinese student's harassment by toss1 on Friday December 17, 2021 @06:37PM (#29599646)
Perhaps. Indeed, I haven't done a controlled study.

It has just jumped out at me how consistently and reliably items on that topic generate those responses. It's also consistent with available open-source info on ops of the CCP and Russian govt. which include social media trolling to promote their POV, undermine rival POVs, and/or sow discord (and considering the ROI on such ops, they'd be negligent to not do them considering there's no resistance).

In any case, I'll take a closer look before commenting.

Re:President Daniels responds to Chinese student's harassment by dang on Friday December 17, 2021 @11:23PM (#29601625)
> It has just jumped out at me

I don't mean to pile on, but this is exactly the point: what jumps out at each of us is precisely the stuff that we find most disagreeable. If you had the opposite preference, opposite stuff would jump out. The effect that this has is very strong, and the conclusions it produces are completely unreliable. (I'm talking about all of us here, not you personally!)

Re:President Daniels responds to Chinese student's harassment by toss1 on Saturday December 18, 2021 @10:47AM (#29605288)
>>I don't mean to pile on, I definitely don't see a good rebuttal as piling on, and this is a kinder way to start the rebuttal

>>but this is exactly the point, what jumps out at each of us is precisely the stuff that we find most disagreeable.

Yup, that is a good point, so I should be looking more strongly for that effect and contrary indicators as well.

Thx for being persistent enough to clarify.

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Re:President Daniels responds to Chinese student's harassment by toss1 on Friday December 17, 2021 @07:34PM (#29600145)
I'm not expressing an opinion or any information on US-originated psyops as it applies to foreign social media.

As you, I'd expect that it exists, but I have little information on the extent. I'd assume it is competent, but it isn't relevant here, since the overall topic is about CCP operations on the grounds of a US university and operations here in a US-based online forum.

If you have information of interest on US ops in foreign (to the US) social media, please post it!

Re:President Daniels responds to Chinese student's harassment by FpUser on Friday December 17, 2021 @08:08PM (#29600383)
>"since the overall topic is about CCP operations on the grounds of a US university"

Then why mention Russian psyops here? Had you stuck purely to CCP matters I'd believe you.

>"If you have information of interest on US ops in foreign (to the US) social media, please post it!"

Really? What am I for you, free QA?

Re:President Daniels responds to Chinese student's harassment by dang on Friday December 17, 2021 @11:25PM (#29601635)