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Re:Buying Influence: How China manipulates Facebook and Twitter by seibelj on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @04:06PM (#29655198)
Have you read this book? https://www.amazon.com/Red-Roulette-Insiders-Corruption-Veng...

Desmond Shum fled China with his son after his wife, one of the richest women in China, was disappeared back in 2017. He was told all sorts of things, like a bullet was put in her head, but supposedly she called him briefly shortly after the book was published (he doesn't know for sure). His son (12 years old) often cries uncontrollably, as his mother has disappeared and not contacted him in years. He gives a detailed explanation of how business and power works in China, and to say it is anything like America or other Western liberal countries would be patently absurd.

Re:Buying Influence: How China manipulates Facebook and Twitter by justicezyx on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @05:37PM (#29656394)
What's the connection of this to the parent?

High power is always corrupted. Even today we have Kennedy assassination, Eperstein, Assange. Desmond Shum is connected to Wen Jiabao. No 2 in China at its time. You think dealing with these people is not dangerous?

CCP is bad in different way than any other political organizations. That does not make China unique in any significant way at all.

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Re:Buying Influence: How China manipulates Facebook and Twitter by dang on Saturday December 25, 2021 @04:31PM (#29687129)
I'm late to this thread, but this is such an egregious violation of the site guidelines that we should probably ban you at this point. It seems like no amount of pleading with you to follow the site rules is working:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29124368 (Nov 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27763551 (July 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26459099 (March 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24319310 (Aug 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22990413 (April 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22781294 (April 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22543721 (March 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22343386 (Feb 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21740392 (Dec 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21667959 (Nov 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20805021 (Aug 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19010638 (Jan 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17822100 (Aug 2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15270562 (Sept 2017)

As I told you last month, this is seriously not cool. I hate to ban an account with this much established history, so I'm going to give you one more chance. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and fix this.

Re:Buying Influence: How China manipulates Facebook and Twitter by justicezyx on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @11:55PM (#29658790)
I literally wrote: "CCP is bad in different way than any other political organizations."

When did I say they are the same as US government?