Also this.
Seems bad
Lol there’s a police presence at the tiny makeshift sidewalk produce market outside my apartment community.
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The History of China podcast has a good summary of the protests.
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No, but both are human rights stains that should condemned by history.
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stanford doing public service by researching chinese porn
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/27/twitter-china-spam-protests/
Twitter grapples with Chinese spam obscuring news of protests
For hours, links to adult content overwhelmed other posts from cities where dramatic rallies escalated
Numerous Chinese-language accounts, some dormant for months or years, came to life early Sunday and started spamming the service with links to escort services and other adult offerings alongside city names.
The result: For hours, anyone searching for posts from those cities and using the Chinese names for the locations would see pages and pages of useless tweets instead of information about the daring protests as they escalated to include calls for Communist Party leaders to resign.
Well, that’s debatable.
On a more serious note:
https://twitter.com/sentdefender/status/1597352679814361093?s=20&t=116R-aNQort2eyqHF8VZdQ
Not great.
If there’s one thing that was missing from 2022, it was more global instability.
Jiang Zemin just died.
I can’t see this as being akin to the death of Hu Yaobang, but any excuse for public grieving now is definitely a headache for party leadership.
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Is it? Or does it help distract from the protests.
When confronted with China’s much lower covid death toll, anti-zero covid Chinese people would probably retort that it’s unknown how many people died due to lack of access to healthcare during extreme lockdowns.
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