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CrunchBase claims without source New York based: https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/145817/on-which-country-are-the-creators-and-servers-of-archive-today-archive-is-base

Does not care about robots.txt, so it sometimes works where Wayback Machine fails, so its better than nothing when it does. E.g. it is a good option for <<quora>>.

And no, you can't Wayback Machine archive an archive.is, they blocked the domain.

Has specific LinkedIn handling as it has a logged scrape account, e.g.: https://archive.vn/EPaEH[]. TODO find account URL.

Also has specific GitHub handling, e.g. as seen at: https://github.com/TinkoffCreditSystems/invest-openapi/issues/278 TODO what for?

Their github account was: https://github.com/volth an archive https://archive.vn/kqftP The account was completely deleted presumaly after GitHub noticed the anti-ToS usage: all their issues created have been deleted, not converted to ghost as happens with account deletion, and non-owners cannot delete their issues, only comments. Since he was such a large NixOS contributor, this was notice by other contributors: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/how-was-this-treewide-pr-performed/11174/15 | https://twitter.com/grhmc/status/1334138105738256389

From the non-trivial contributions, they were a big NixOS contributor, and are clearly fluent Russian:

* https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/91184 "[staging] perlPackages: update" was merged.
* https://github.com/TinkoffCreditSystems/invest-openapi/issues/278 "Инструменты "для квалифицированных инвесторов" недоступны через API" is a sample issue in fluent Russian

By cloning NixOS NixOS/nixpkgs we obtain an email, it uses custom domain http://volth.com/ as of 2021-02-04 has a copy of the Google 404: https://web.archive.org/web/20190913083033/http://volth.com/ This is the case since 2013. In 2011 it was some other random company.

Google photo matches exactly this "Masha Rabinovich" https://www.linkedin.com/in/masha-rabinovich-52aa3a197/[], or is just some image of a well known person? Account marked as "Bachelor of Engineering" at the Humboldt University of Berlin.

The same photo seems to be used for all fetches: https://archive.vn/IPEEd[].

Googling name leads to an YouTube account whose only video is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1bp1VxMwP4 | https://archive.vn/9Xq6w "How to make an archive.is link with selection hashtag", so yes, the relation is almost certain.

https://www.northkoreatech.org/2016/09/21/north-koreas-dns-files-reveal-internet-websites/ has an archive.is related comment by an user of the same name Masha Rabinovich: September 22, 2016 at 17:55 "There are some more websites in .kp: http://archive.is/*.kp"

In 2008 they had some interest in compilers: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/tinycc-devel/2008-11/msg00015.html The obvious gmail email can be obtained from there. The only hit is in this creepy email list: https://api.intelx.io/file/read?type=1&systemid=989faa9e-46a1-440f-87fa-2a98b616c66d&k=7b256c65-6ebf-4bb8-a301-070bce8dec01

Removing the space leads to more matches:

* 2012-08: https://community.f-secure.com/en/discussion/14768/what-is-the-evidence-of-harmful-behaviour#M3733 a "masharabinovich" claims the website:
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Your website http://browsingprotection.f-secure.com/swp/result?x=5Jg2kWKC8d86b4F-H5cdoS8dyu04vtzGtEXhQL6COLIX0k4wrv-N*w shows that someone in your company "found evidence of harmful behaviour" on my website http://archive.is/
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* https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AMasharabinovich shows 2012 attempts by Masha to automate wikipedia arching of dead links with archive.is.  Later in 2016 archive** in 2016 archive.is is was blacklisted entirely: http://wikipediocracy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7578
** possibly in 2018, Wikipedia widely adopted automatic <<wayback-machine>> usage on all external links: http://blog.archive.org/2018/10/01/more-than-9-million-broken-links-on-wikipedia-are-now-rescued/

Wikipedia suggests that the name Masha Rabinovich is likely of Russian Ashkenazi Jewish origin:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masha
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabinovich

so if the LinkedIn information is real, maybe they just went to study in Germany, or their ancestors migrated there.

The name in Cyrillic would be "Маша рабинович", but we couldn't find any information of interest by searching for that.

[[google-cache]]
====== Google Cache

https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/1687222?hl=en

Google caches every indexed page that shows up on the search, you just have to click on the arrow and select "Cache" to see it.

The advantage over <<wayback-machine>> is that Google crawls many more pages than the Wayback Machine.

How to get the Google cache for a given URL: https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/15633/how-to-modify-a-url-to-get-a-google-cached-version-of-page

It is not possible however to see old caches, therefore you have to archive the Google caches with <<wayback-machine>> if you find anything interesting in them to not lose it:

* https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/45306/how-do-you-view-all-the-cached-versions-of-a-web-page
* https://support.google.com/websearch/thread/18638126?hl=en

The Google cache also has a text-only mode which is great for more complex webpages like those on <<zhihu>>, which due to JavaScript madness keep showing and disappearing.

====== geoscreenshot

https://www.geoscreenshot.com

Takes screenshots of the websites much like <<wayback-machine>>, but you can select the location.

Once the screenshot is made, you can "view the HTML", and that gives an Amazon AWS link, and warns that JavaScript and CSS might/will be disabled. The screenshot does not state what the origin URL/data is, so it cannot be used as a proof. But we can <<wayback-machine>> archive it to make sure it remains visible. E.g.:

* 2020-09-30 https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship | http://web.archive.org/web/20200930075102/https://s3.amazonaws.com/geoscreenshot-static/d3fdb97d-2ac3-4f57-a737-6fab2997fb1a.html see also <<github-censored-subdomains>>
* 2020-09-30 https://github.com/programthink/zhao/issues/38 | https://archive.vn/QKCMi see alo <<programthink>>
* 2020-09-30 https://cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship/ | https://archive.vn/bIzkH see alo <<mirrors>>

The free trial is very limited, and you can't share the screenshots on a public URL. See also: <<censorship-monitoring>>.

====== Geo Targetly

https://geotargetly.com/

This one can actually share screenshots for different countries, nice: https://geotargetly.com/geo-browse?url=https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/266&country_code=CN

Small deatail: it doesn't work, or it takes forever, either one.

===== Lists of material censored in China

For materials hosted on GitHub, see: <<github-repositories-with-censored-information>>.

For books, see: <<books>>

Websites:

* <<falun-gong-media>> contains a few:
** <<bannedbook>>

===== gfwlist

https://github.com/gfwlist/gfwlist

Chinese people widely use this website list with browser extensions, so as to only use more expensive and risky <<censorship-circumvention>> traffic when accessing certain webpages.

The result is a well maintained list of interesting websites. About half of which is porn.

Get the full list with:

....
base64 -d gfwlist.txt
....

See also:

* https://github.com/gfwlist/gfwlist/issues/3 "How to use this repo?"
* https://github.com/gfwlist/gfwlist/issues/1141 "Add categories tags to each entry"

[[censorship-circumvention]]
===== Censorship circumvention (翻墙)

Lists:

* https://www.wallmama.com/ 墙妈妈 is one of the top Google hits and mentions amongst others:
** VPN obviously
** SOCKS5 (lantern, 蓝灯)
* https://github.com/vpncn/vpncn.github.io on <<github>> reviews VPN services
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lantern_(software)
** https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/蓝灯
** https://github.com/getlantern/lantern on <<github>>
* SSR (<<shadowsocks>>)
* https://github.com/yinghuocho/firefly-proxy "A proxy software to help circumventing the Great Firewall."
* https://www.bypasscensorship.org
* https://github.com/awesome-doge/breaking-gfw-book

It is interesting to note how <<falun-gong>> is a good source of censorship-circumvention material, see e.g.: <<github-gov-takedowns>>.

Projects:

* https://github.com/233boy/v2ray
** https://github.com/Loyalsoldier/v2ray-rules-dat | https://github.com/v2ray/v2ray-core Contains cirosantilli.com: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Loyalsoldier/v2ray-rules-dat/release/geosite.dat[], victory.
** https://github.com/v2ray/v2ray-core

More info:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_circumvention
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/突破网络审查

====== Hide destination IP until it leave the country

TODO is there any way to do use this to overcome IP blocks? You would wait until the packet leaves the country to reveal the final destination IP:

* https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/1358/what-tools-are-available-to-identify-which-country-a-specific-ip-address-is-loca
* https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9802046/identifying-country-by-ip-address
* https://stackoverflow.com/questions/409999/getting-the-location-from-an-ip-address
* https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/12857/is-it-trivial-to-bypass-ip-blocking
* https://tor.stackexchange.com/questions/15483/how-can-i-use-tor-in-china

[[ensi]]
====== TLS 1.3 ENSI

* https://blog.cloudflare.com/encrypted-sni
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication#Encrypted_Client_Hello

This amazing standardized feature encrypts the domain as well as the URL.

This means that censors are unable to block only certain websites via DNS blocks, which is one of the main techniques used. But they can still block by IP, no?

In 2020-08, it was reported that the firewall was already blocking it: https://www.zdnet.com/article/china-is-now-blocking-all-encrypted-https-traffic-using-tls-1-3-and-esni/

Therefore, <<what-should-western-countries-do-about-china,all the West has to do>> is to force all of its websites to serve ENSI-only!

====== ShadowSocks

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadowsocks
* https://github.com/shadowsocksrr/ on <<github>>
* 2017 https://qz.com/1072701/meet-shadowsocks-the-underground-tool-that-chinas-coders-use-to-blast-through-the-great-firewall/ "Meet Shadowsocks, the underground tool that China’s coders use to blast through the Great Firewall"
* 2015 https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2015/08/circumvention-tool-deleted-after-police-visit-developer/ "Circumvention tool deleted after police visit developer" by <<china-digital-times>>
* https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks-iOS/issues/124#issuecomment-133630294 used to contain:
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Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop working on this. Today they asked me to delete all the code from GitHub. I have no choice but to obey.

I hope one day I'll live in a country where I have freedom to write any code I like without fearing.
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TODO vs VPN:

* https://superuser.com/questions/1233614/what-is-the-difference-between-shadowsocks-and-openvpn
* https://qz.com/1072701/meet-shadowsocks-the-underground-tool-that-chinas-coders-use-to-blast-through-the-great-firewall/ mentions superficially that it is very similar, except that in the current ecosystem it is easier for tech-savvy users to setup their own servers. No technical differences are mentioned however

====== SOCKS

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOCKS
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOCKS

TODO vs VPN

* https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-socks-and-a-VPN

[[icp-license]]
===== ICP license 非经营性网站备案 (2000)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICP_license
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/非经营性网站备案

Part of the <<internal-censorship,Internet censorship machine>>, although it predates the GFW proper.

It can be seen at the bottom of many many many websites, it is likely mandatory to display it.

If you see one of those, you already know hat it cannot be trusted for politics.

For example, https://archive.is/ePBM9[as of April 2020], the <<zhihu>> sidebar shows:

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京 ICP 备 13052560 号 - 1
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where "京" indicates that the certificate was issued by the Beijing Provincial level city.

In 2014, almost 15 years later, <<russia>> finally caught up, what a relief: <<russia-mandatory-registration-of-bloggers>>.

====== Social media license

Ahh, this is a perfect excuse to delete all <<wumao>> comments!

* 2021-02-20 https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4129352 "Beginning next week, the Cyberspace Administration of China will require bloggers and influencers to have a government-approved credential before they can publish on a wide range of subjects. Some fear that only state media and official propaganda accounts will get permission. While permits have been needed since at least 2017 to write about topics such as political and military affairs, enforcement has not been widespread. The new rules expand that requirement to health, economics, education and judicial matters."

[[anonymous-accounts-ban]]
===== Anonymous accounts ban (2017)

* https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/ban-08282017112633.html
* https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/27/china-doubles-down-on-real-name-registration-laws-forbidding-anonymous-online-posts/
* https://advox.globalvoices.org/2017/08/27/china-to-ban-anonymous-online-comments-blacklist-users/

Related:

* <<linkedin>> requires you to use the real username and photo

[[cac]]
===== Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC, 国家互联网信息办公室, 中央网信办)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberspace_Administration_of_China
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中央网络安全和信息化委员会办公室

This is where the <<censorship,Internet censors>> work.

[[cac-report-website]]
====== CAC report website (中央网信办举报网站)

These are official Chinese government websites that can be used to report cybercrime, including fraud and identity theft, but also political <<thoughtcrime,thoughcrime>>:

* http://www.cac.gov.cn/hdzx/jbzx/A091102index_1.htm
* https://www.12321.cn
* http://12377.cn

Reports such as https://www.theage.com.au/world/asia/china-exporting-ccp-speech-controls-to-australia-as-second-university-caught-in-row-20200805-p55irf.html highlighted that these websites has a "report harmful or garbage information" entry, which can notably be used by Chinese expats to report people who badmouth the CCP, and in particular other Chinese nationals.

Typing "国家互联网信息办公室" on Google autocompleted to "国家互联网信息办公室举报" (举报 == report), and finds http://www.cac.gov.cn/hdzx/jbzx/A091102index_1.htm[].

This is clearly an official government website due to the `gov.cn` URL, and it also has an <<icp-license>>.

One of the categories of report on that page is: "网络不良与垃圾信息举报受理中心" (center for reporting harmful or garbage information, https://web.archive.org/web/20200704135840/http://www.cac.gov.cn/hdzx/jbzx/A091102index_1.htm[archive]).

Notably, there is one separate entry for illegal activity as well (网络违法犯罪举报网站) and another one for <<porn,pornography (中国扫黄打非网)>>, so it is interesting to see that there is one specifically for "misinformation".

The harmful information page redirects to: https://www.12321.cn/ (https://web.archive.org/web/20200907150310/https://www.12321.cn/[archive]) which has further categories.

The "report website" (举报不良网站) category links to https://www.12321.cn/web (https://web.archive.org/web/20200807060758/https://www.12321.cn/web[archive]) and then has a "link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactionary[reactonary] and <<politically-sensitive,politically sensitive>>" (link:https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/反动[反动]及<<politically-sensitive,政治敏感>>) checkbox.

After you submit, it leads you to: https://www.12321.cn/suc (https://web.archive.org/web/20200807063330/https://www.12321.cn/suc[archive]) in which you can optionally provide further contact details: https://www.12321.cn/reg[]. This appears to be no link with the previous page, so they might just do it via IP. Registration requires both a cell phone and an email.

From the website source code (very simple, hand written, we see that it uses <<baidu,Baidu Analytics>>. The CCP obviously trusts Baidu a lot :-)

On 2020-09-07, <<mirrors,cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship>>'s Google Analytics had a hit coming from http://jbcz.12377.cn/report/center/web.index[] ("This site can't be reached" on Chrome). This was soon after <<ciro-santilli>> mentioned <<cac-report-website>> at https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/149#issuecomment-688084645[]. This is presumably the censor's web UI to review reports. "jb" from jbcz presumably means Ju Bao (举报), the CZ Ciro couldn't guess. 2020-10-14 had another hit from: http://jbcz.12377.cn/report/load/operate.index[]. 2021-05-18 https://jbcz.12377.cn to https://cirosantilli.gitlab.io/china-dictatorship[] <<mirrors>>. On same day also a hit from http://123.125.45.236:9007[], that appears to be an IP in China.

The toplevel http://12377.cn (https://web.archive.org/web/20200907235842/https://www.12377.cn/[archive]) is entitled "中央网信办（国家互联网信息办公室）违法和不良信息举报中心" and is another report website. It is also linked to from http://www.cac.gov.cn/hdzx/jbzx/A091102index_1.htm under different categories, so it is also official.

The first category in that page is "政治类" (political category). From there we have some awesome information.

First it links to the report guidelines (举报指南) https://www.12377.cn/jbzn.html?tab=4 (https://web.archive.org/web/20200902094911/https://www.12377.cn/jbzn.html?tab=4[archive])

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涉攻击党和国家制度及重大方针政策，攻击"<<two-safegards,two safeguards,两个维护>>"，危害国家安全、泄露国家秘密，破坏国家统一和领土完整，损害国家形象荣誉利益，破坏国家民族宗教政策、宣扬邪教，诋毁英雄烈士等内容的互联网违法和不良信息，请在此举报。
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which states:

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Involved in attacking the party and state system and major policies, attacking the "<<two-safegards,two safeguards>>", endangering national security, leaking state secrets, undermining national unity and territorial integrity, damaging national image, honor and interests, undermining national and religious policies, promoting cults, and vilifying heroes. Please report illegal and harmful information on the Internet of martyrs and other content.
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so yes, attacking the party and major policies is illegal in China, big news, right? "Involved in attacking the party and state system and major policies" is then one of the categories in the report page.

Soon after the previous events in 2020-09-08, anaytics got a hit from http://openurls.com.cn/ to https://cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship[]. The only function of that website appears to be to open a newline separated list of websites into separate tabs. Maybe a censor bulk quickly having a look at several tasks. It is basically a clone of https://www.openallurls.com/[] but with an <<icp-license>> :-) The 2020-10-14 hit from http://jbcz.12377.cn was followed by another hit from http://openurls.com.cn/[], further reinforcing that this is part of their review procedure. 3 more hits on `/` and `/ciro-santilli` on 2020-02-22 after pinging a few people on https://github.com/zaohmeing/21- issues. Another hit 2021-03-19 to https://cirosantilli.com[], unknown cause. 2021-05-01 3 more openurls.com.cn hits 2021 after resubmitting reports on 2021-04-18 to get proper screenshots of the report procedure. Another hit to https://cirosantilli.com/ on 2021-05-13.

Other report websites:

* https://www.12339.gov.cn/ spy report website, see also: <<ministry-of-state-security>>
* <<hong-kong-national-security-department-hotline>>

.https://www.12321.cn[] procedure to report political content as of April 2021.
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/12321_report_procedure_april_2021.png[height=1948]

.https://www.12377.cn[] procedure to report political content as of April 2021.
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/12377_report_procedure_april_2021.png[height=5099]

[[wumao]]
==== Wumao (五毛)

50 Cent Party, 五毛党, Wumao Dang:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/网络评论员

They can be classified as a form of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_warfare[information warfare] (link:https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/信息战[信息战]).

A wise person once said:

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It is impossible to distinguish wumaos, <<little-pink,idiots>> and <<not-chinese,brain washed>> people. So we just call all of them wumaos.
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But of course, the <<ccp-cult,CCP is a cult>> (and <<democracy-is-a-religion,democracy, a religion>>), and therefore <<preconceived,any discussion is also pointless>> in general.

To a large extent, wumao's goals are to dilute useful conversation with shit, normally <<evil-west>> and <<western-democracies-are-not-perfect>>.

This leads to endless idiotic conversions of type:

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You: Chinese friend, your house is on fire, let's try to put the fire out!

Wumao: I don't care, your house is also on fire!

You: that's true, that fire is also very serious, and I'm trying to put it out!

Wumao: look everyone, his house is on fire! Mine isn't!
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Therefore, it is crucial to have a working algorithmic policy to handle them: <<how-to-deal-with-wumaos>>.

Notable wumaos <<what-should-western-countries-do-about-china,should be investigated by intelligence agencies>>.

If it is determined that they are knowingly funded by China, they should be put into jail as foreign agents.

There is a tradeoff between privacy rights and snuffing out wumaos, and it is hard to decide where to set the line. But snuffing out wumaos is important, and must be done.

If we were to give up on privacy completely, one possible rule would be: block anyone that lives in China and whose revenue therefore cannot be investigated properly by your government to determine if they are funded by the CCP.

Here are some people completely against blocking wumaos. Those silly Democrats never prepare well enough for war:

* https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/22/opinion/how-to-counter-chinas-global-propaganda-offensive.html
** it mentions the "Countering Information Warfare Act of 2016" https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/2692[], which is exactly what Western countries should do

The <<baidu-baike>> definition of wumao https://baike.baidu.com/item/五毛/24163406[] (https://archive.vn/mADIL[archive])) is priceless:

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五毛，网络流行语，指收钱为某单位在网络上说好话的人

Fifty cents, an internet buzzword, refers to people who collect money for a certain unit to say good things on the Internet
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"Good". And not mention of the CCP in the article, of course.

Other names:

* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/网军 (online army), example: https://www.ptt.cc/bbs/Soft_Job/M.1478104872.A.916.html "Github也出現網軍了嗎?" (Is there an emerging wumao army on GitHub?) on <<ptt>>

Bibliography:

* 2020-03-12 https://twitter.com/jenniferatntd/status/1238076579466674178 <<jennifer-zeng>>'s publishing of purported Wumao guidelines with translation. Translated title: "<<cac,CAC>> (link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberspace_Administration_of_China[Cyberspace Administration of China]) Internal Documentation for Internet Commentators (no spreading)"
* 2018-09-27 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCnnPf2OnHo "Chinese Internet Trolls Get Paid 50 Cents For Every Comment" by <<serpentza-laowhy86,laowhy86>>
* 2017-04-09 https://gking.harvard.edu/files/gking/files/50c.pdf "How the Chinese Government Fabricates Social Media Posts for Strategic Distraction, not Engaged Argument" by "Gary King, Jennifer Pan, Margaret E. Roberts"
* https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/files-05202015150018.html
* 2015-05-20 https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/files-05202015150018.html "Hackers Leak Files Showing Inner Workings of 'China's 50-Cent Army'", hacker group name "Unicorn Nocturne". TODO material, silly reporters that don't give links
* 2014 emails of some Wumaos were hacked/phished and leaked at https://xiaolan.me/50-cent-party-jxgzzg.html (down, no web archive, but https://archive.is/BNNQe[]) revealing operational details
** https://qz.com/311832/hacked-emails-reveal-chinas-elaborate-and-absurd-internet-propaganda-machine/

毛 (mao2) is a colloquial form of 角 (jiao3) both meaning "one-tenth". Coins actually use 角. See also:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renminbi#Coins The fourth and fifth series Wikipedia currently have a 50 cent picture:
** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_series_of_the_renminbi
** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_series_of_the_renminbi
* https://chinese.stackexchange.com/questions/8355/角-毛-10-cents-for-money-why
* https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/26832834/六元四角-vs-六块四毛钱

.50-cent coin (五角) from the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_series_of_the_renminbi[fourth series of renminbi] (https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/第四套人民币[第四套人民币], 1987-1997). This image is going to be very useful. Note the beautiful plum blossom drawings reminiscent of <<chinese-traditional-painting>> which <<ciro-santilli>> loves. Note how it uses 角 (jiao3) instead of 毛 (mao2). http://www.bjzxcp.com/article-41679.html[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Wujiao.png[height=400]

[[little-pink]]
===== Little pink (小粉紅, 小紅粉)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Pink
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/小粉紅

<<slang,Slang>> name for <<stupid,brainwashed>> <<ccp,CCP>> supporters who are not necessarily paid professional <<wumao,wumaos>>, notably young, idealistic and enthusiastic ones, <<little-pink-american-dream-vs-chinese-dream,Little pink explains the difference between the American dream  and the Chinese dream>> contains a prototypical video example.

Bibliography:

* 2020-06-29 "小粉红"现象调查 (An investigation of the "Little Pink" phenomenon)
* 2017 http://www.8bb.com/zaojiao/5264.html "小红粉小粉红是什么 家长发现孩子自称小粉红怎么办" (What is a little pink? If a parent discovers that their children call themselves little pinks, what should they do about it?). Kill them.

[[wumao-2011-vs-little-pink-2021]]
.Perceived comparison between <<wumao>> and <<little-pink>> suggesting that unpaid Little Pinks are more nationalist and extreme than the paid wumaos, which is not too surprising, considering that they do it for free. https://twitter.com/__Inty__/status/1376942681956487168[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Wumao_2011_vs_Little_Pink_2021.jpg[height=800]

[[that-rabbit]]
====== That Rabbit (那兔)

<<little-pink,Little pinks>> are often symbolized by a rabbit.

The origin of this appears to be the 2011 webcomic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Hare_Affair[Year Hare Affair] (https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/那年那兔那些事兒[那年那兔那些事], literally "That year, That rabbit, Those events), where different animals represent different countries, and the rabbit represented China.

The little pink rabbit is generally called simply "那兔" (That Rabbit) derived from the Chinese title.

Bibliography:

* 2020-01-14 https://pincong.rocks/question/15322 "问下小粉红为什么叫中共兔子？" (Why do Little Pinks call the CCP Rabbit)

.As of 2020, a particularly popular representation is this cute one wearing a <<pla>>-hat and with a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_star[red star] (https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/紅星[红星]) on the chest, but in the original cartoon That Rabbit appeared to be more aggressive. <<wife>> told him that <<that-rabbit>> reminded her of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mashimaro[Mashimaro] (https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/流氓兔[流氓兔]), a cute Korean cartoon she used to watch when she was small. https://www.pinterest.fr/pin/757167756087837907/[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/That_Rabbit_cute.jpg[height=400]

[[how-to-deal-with-wumaos]]
===== How to deal with wumaos (如何应对五毛)

Above all, never reply intelligently to wumaos. Ignore all their notifications, and ignore their profile wherever possible. And if they start generating too many notifications, block them.

* <<reply-policy>>
* https://github.com/ckhung[C.K. Hung]'s wumao reply strategy: https://ckhung0.blogspot.com/2017/07/50-cents-party.html
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為什麼我不刪五毛的回應反而要刪你的回應? 因為你只能跟人類講道理， 沒辦法跟原始物種講道理啊!

Why I delete your posts, but I don't delete wumao's posts? Because it is only possible to reason with humans, it is not possible to reason with primitive animals!
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* https://chinadigitaltimes.net/chinese/2019/08/【麻辣总局】新型敏感词武器：赵弹磁铁/ by <<china-digital-times>> 

===== Where to find wumaos

<<wumao,Wumaos>> are particularly easy to spot on <<censorship-monitoring,Western websites banned in China>> and when written in English, since there is no way that strong pro-CCP opinions would get any support in such circumstances:

* <<quora>> is completely infested by wumaos as of 2020, see more information on that section

When they write in Chinese, it is much harder to know if they are paid or not, most are just <<stupid,brainwashed>>, some places to find them:

* <<zhao-heming>>

[[ccp-apologists]]
===== CCP apologists (中共辩护士)

If it is ever proven that those people are directly supported by the Chinese government, their nationalities should be revoked, it is very simple.

<<ciro-santilli>> feels that it is unlikely however that the CCP directly pays those apologists, as that would be too risky for both parties.

Rather, Ciro believes that they are either:

* saying that the CCP is good to get more views and ad revenue from CCP supporters that want to hear it from a white (most cases)
* even bigger complete idiots who actually believe China is good (the minority)

Then, when they reach a certain size, the CCP can support them indirectly, notably by featuring them in <<chinese-government-media>> such as <<cgtn>>, e.g. as happened <<nathan-rich>> at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRK1XDlZkng[], in order to boost their views and ad revenue.

For this reason, it is very hard to stop them without quenching freedom of expression.

Ciro's currently recommended approach is the following: if a prominent pro-CCP YouTubber never ever criticized the CCP, and it gets featured in CCP media, treat that channel exactly as you should treat CCP media, which is by adding a notice at the bottom along the lines of:

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This account supports the Chinese Government, which is a fucking murderous dictatorship.
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followed by a funny meme image that is forbidden in China, e.g. <<xi-jinping-memes>>.

It would be amazing if we could demonetize the apologist channels only for views coming from Chinese citizens, and it would be possible without completely destroying privacy by using decentralized ring signatures as mentioned at: https://cirosantilli.com/electronic-voting[].

Related discussion at: <<what-should-western-countries-do-about-china>>.

It is also interesting to note that many of them don't speak a word of Chinese, or very basic Chinese. It is fine when you say "the CCP is great" as a foreigner, but if you say "the CCP is bad", then <<not-chinese>>.

* 伏拉夫 (fu2 la1 fu1): Russian, says I love China in ridiculously enthusiastic tone which is despised even by the Chinese, samples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMVRdeUrk-8[]
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Video by <<western-dissidents,Lele Farley>> making fun of him and <<nathan-rich>>: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSM2_HgXKsM
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It does not feel like he is paid by the Chinese government, but rather that he is just trying to get some views.
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https://www.zhihu.com/question/334923127 如何评价俄罗斯籍中国网红伏拉夫？ on <<zhihu>> with 17k likes as of 2020-06.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Zeman Carrie Lam supporter
* "Living in China" by Jason Lightfoot: https://www.youtube.com/user/JasonLightfoot Sample video:
** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Mjik6q7FFo "The CCP is Wonderful! Thank you China not a government shill 谢谢你中国"
** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SftsZXlIKM "British vlogger: The life of Uygurs and other minorities in China" reposted by <<cgtn>> (2021)

TODO decide:

* the JaYoe Nation https://www.youtube.com/c/JaYoeNation Sample video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smnVeGR15GI "Chinese Government Officials Corrupted My Videos! | JaYoe Conversation" 
* Mexicanos en China https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgQYtqm1xB2uuNZaOniCH0Q Sample video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a71fDVMBwP8 "Is the CHINESE GOVERNMENT PAYING US to Make Videos: Our Trip to Shaanxi // 中国政府是否付钱给我们制作视频" https://youtu.be/a71fDVMBwP8?t=188 says they were sponsored for the video.
* Gweilo60's Channel: https://www.youtube.com/gweilo60
* Eric Favreliere: https://www.instagram.com/ericfavreliere/
* Laoma Chris (Chris Max, 口语老炮儿马思瑞). No ultra-pro CCP content, but has some anti-US content, and significant business interest in China. Large channel, 700k+ subscribers as of April 2021:
** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQQ-9x5c6nM Why Is Police Brutality So Common in the US? (2020)

Non-political (as far as we can tell) channels of interest:

* https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCISrVZmDM4x-Rq9mmNUw7Zw Blondie in China food and travel. Speaks Chinese. TODO name.
* https://www.youtube.com/c/TravelinChina The China Traveller. Real name: Stuart Wiggin (司徒). British, studied in Oxford, speaks Chinese. Avoids ultra-sensitive topics like <<xinjiang>> and <<censorship>>, and covers positive rosy (and to some extent real) improvements in China mostly, in addition to neutral food/travel. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stuartwiggin[] (https://archive.ph/HWoMr[archive]). Worked for <<china-radio-international>> from 2012 to 2017 and for <<netease>> since 2016. Other media: https://twitter.com/wiginchina Sample videos: 
** https://youtu.be/8221d7F8Uzc?t=145[]: watermarked crienglish.com[] "到底是不是习近平？Is that a famous Asian world leader?", but takes <<xi-jinping>> lightly by showing a <<xi-jinping-lookalikes,bad Xi Jinping lookalike>>
** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unDUEoMqYwk "I Train with the Troops at Tiananmen Square". Participates in a flag raising ceremony.
* https://www.youtube.com/c/KevininShanghai Kevin in Shanghai. Mostly language and cultural differences.

Bibliography:

Discussion/lists: <<quora>>:

* https://www.quora.com/Why-does-there-seem-to-be-an-upsurge-in-CCP-apologists-and-apologism/answer/Ciro-Santilli on <<quora>>
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=370&v=AvN5X_pOFio "Expat YouTubers attacked for pro-China views" by <<cgtn>> (2021). TODO investigate all of those shown at the given timestamp.
** <<raz-gal-or>>
** Leo (Germany) TODo
** Brian (Argentina)
** Alistair Bayley (UK/Australia)
** Vlad (Russia). <<russia>> is not part of the West.
** Thomas (Germany)
** Rachele (Italy)
** Jason Lightfoot (UK)
** Jared (Canada)
** Lila (US). This is Lila Kidson, <<raz-gal-or>>'s girl
* https://medium.com/swlh/how-china-is-influencing-youtubers-into-posting-state-propaganda-db72acf18dfa "EXCLUSIVE: How China is Influencing YouTubers into Posting State Propaganda" mentions https://youtu.be/2mQ8plzWl9g?t=520 "They tried to get me to post Chinese propaganda" by J.J. McCullough (2019) was approached to publish an anti-<<shen-yun>> video by what was likely a Chinese agent.

<<reddit>> threads:

* https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/lgkp8t/british_youtubers_paid_by_the_cpp/ about Jason Lightfoot

[[nathan-rich]]
====== Nathan Rich (Hotpot King, 火锅大王)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Rich
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/内森·瑞克

YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaSlyjhR4WC7QhYuaivxb6g/videos

As mentioned at: https://medium.com/swlh/how-china-is-influencing-youtubers-into-posting-state-propaganda-db72acf18dfa[]:

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His vlogging career is inexplicably successful. He has 385,000 subscribers on his channel, a huge amount for someone with so little time and so few videos on the platform.".
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https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/au8az3/exscientologist_nathan_rich_is_a_convicted_felon/ mentions another interesting very strong circumstantial evidence:

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His videos feature perfect Chinese in the subtitles along with Chinese video titles, meaning that he is almost certainly having these videos produced by someone else/and or a group of people. I can guarantee that based on his pronunciation of the few Chinese words he says in the video, his Chinese ability should not be anywhere close to fluent.
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Sample videos:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRqcA04FtmM he says <<serpentza-laowhy86,SerpentZA>> is a fraud "because he criticizes China".

Reception:

* https://www.zhihu.com/question/310502367 "如何评价 B 站 UP 主「NathanRich火锅大王」？" on <<zhihu>>. TODO what is "B站UP"?
* 2020-07-05 <<cgtn>> approves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRK1XDlZkng "Nathan Rich: 'Hotpot King' delivering truth about HK to the world"

2020-06-01  https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3941420 "China propagandist Nathan Rich's criminal record revealed" contains an outline of Richs criminal records, with including mugshots. Most of this was already likely known, but it gives good detail. In particular, it comments on the fact that in 2013 Beijing started to more strictly do criminal background checks for VISA applicants: https://www.china-briefing.com/news/non-criminal-record-certificate-required-for-employment-license-application-in-beijing/[], and that Rich managed to get the VISA two years later nonetheless, notably including a drug trafficking charge.

白https://secure.avaaz.org/community_petitions/en/youtubers_social_commentators_anybody_interested_i_remove_youtube_user_nathan_rich_from_google_services/ characterises him as "左五无毛". While this does not seems like a specific expression, and maybe is not even accurate, learning the meaning of "左五" is of interest:

* https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/白左
* https://www.zhihu.com/question/52409116
* https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/40252469
* https://pincong.rocks/question/3559

====== Barrett Channel

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1XG7bJnYqta_ezr12WZp7w

2021-09-21 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/beijing-funds-british-youtubers-to-further-its-propaganda-war-x5gqp5fg0 (on <<reddit>>: https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/kto2vj/beijing_funds_british_youtubers_to_further_its/[]) claims that:

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The Times has found that some of their videos were funded by <<china-radio-international,Chinese Radio International>>, a media organisation that has been exposed as the secret owner of an international network of propaganda radio stations.

...

In November they visited the Shaanxi district of China with several other foreign YouTubers who live in China and make videos supporting the government.

The trip was organised and funded by the Chinese Radio International and an official press release described the visit as "International Internet Celebrities Witnessing the Happiness of Shaanxi People".

In a candid video about the visit that was subsequently removed, Lee admitted that a trip to a mountain was cancelled so they could witness "propaganda" regarding the area's prosperity.

He said: "It wasn't until the second day they started talking about cutting the trip short by a day, and there was no real reason given for that." A fellow YouTuber Jayoe Nation said: "They had to fit in more propaganda."

Lee replied: "They didn't say that, did they, but that's what happened."

Various videos from the trip show the YouTubers visiting locations in the district including a farm where Oli performed a farcical dance while holding vegetables.
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Father and son British expats: Lee Barrett, the father, and Oli Barrett, the son.

100k subs one year after. Don't speak a word of Chinese it seems, but all videos have full bilingual translation.

Their tone is natural unlike others more exaggerated like <<nathan-rich>>, so maybe they believe in the shit they say? Either that, or they are a good fake by the CCP.

Sample videos:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fq1mCL7EQrM "China Doesn't Have Free Speech!"

====== Daniel Dumbrill

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6Bl8MTbW9M9MQoPhxbarpw

Daniel's family name is telling: "<<ciro-santilli-is-stupid,DUMB>> rill", so don't be too hard on him.

Featured on <<cgtn>>:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUjatX2p0dA (http://archive.is/gCeIk[archive]) "Daniel Dumbrill: Hong Kong is far freer since its return to China" supporting <<hong-kong-national-security-law>>
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMUA3GeScUI "Daniel Dumbrill: I want my children to be proud of being Chinese"

Sample content form his channel:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gygxrdNmzUQ "Speaking With a Uyghur Activist About Xinjiang Abuse" interviews https://twitter.com/arslan_hidayat[Arslan Hidayat], who was also interviewed by <<china-uncensored,China Unscripted>>: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUTUVxw7VXc and appears to be denouncing the oppression. Video description is filled to the brim with links about how the West is using Xinjiang for fake news. TODO how can he make a video with that guy and still live in China? This suggests strongly that his videos obtain direct CCP approval.
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nNZbDF75dc "Daniel the Pro-China 'Shill'" replies to accusations of being pro-China

At 2021-03-29 https://pincong.rocks/question/37519 (https://pincong.rocks/question/37519[archive]) from <<pincong>> people are saying that they even if the USA is evil, the CCP is more, one commenter quoted Churchill:

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If <<nazi,Hitler>> invaded Hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons.
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[[nigel-ng]]
====== Nigel Ng (ungle-roger, mrnigelng, 罗杰叔叔)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Ng
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/黃瑾瑜

2021-01-12:

* https://hongkongfp.com/2021/01/13/uncle-roger-apologises-and-deletes-video-featuring-fellow-youtube-star-who-criticised-china/ "'Uncle Roger' apologises and deletes video featuring fellow YouTube star who criticised China"
* https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-55651798 "Uncle Roger comedian deletes video with China critic"

Nigel had published a collaboration video called "Uncle Roger Review UGLIEST DUMPLING EVER" with another YouTuber called https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjkGXhZsu5H64fWuNQNf1Xw[Mikey Chen], who unknown to Nigel, is a somewhat discreet <<falun-gong>> believer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=315&v=nD6792YoOmY[source])

The video then removed solely because of Mikey's believes expressed elsewhere. The apology on <<weibo>>: https://weibo.com/7231497816/JCQPH5vzK[] Excerpt:

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During the process of working with the content-creator, I wasn't aware of his political thoughts and his past incorrect remarks about China. This is my negligence, and I will be more careful when I make content in the future.
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This is the original video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N_wKd5UUg4 according to this reaction video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsatmCWeVb8 No archives of the original were made unfortunately.

Nigel had 125k <<weibo>> followers at that point, and reuploads every YouTube video he posts over there with Chinese subtitles: https://weibo.com/u/7231497816[], extremely likely done by paid professionals.

Saying hi: https://github.com/nigeljyng/dotfiles/issues/4

[[raz-gal-or]]
====== Raz Gal-Or (高佑思, Ychina, Y-Platform, 歪果仁研究协会)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raz_Gal-Or Was being considered for deletion for non-notability: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Raz_Gal-Or but it got through because there's a bunch of <<chinese-government-media>> that reported on him obviously. Which is a good thing as it allows us to know more about the bastard.
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/高佑思

Israeli, studied at Peking University. Ychina (歪果仁研究协会) is his pro-CCP propaganda organization, based in Beijing.

His father https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amir_Gal-Or[Amir Gal-Or] (高哲铭), also Israeli, is a venture capitalist based in China. So that's the collateral for his son's media access. Amir is an ex-Israeli Air Force. What a disgrace. Mossad is going to pay those people a visit one day. Supposing they are not already working for Mossad. Here's the happy family: https://twitter.com/AmirGalOr/status/911491366995103744[], father and son entitled "being  interviewed by my son in <<cctv>> headquarters .. a new era .." Here's his TED talk on how to educate your children to support <<nazi,Hitler>> v2 do <<xinjiang-re-education-camps,holocaust v2>>: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk4ztwRvUxs "How to educate the next generation of global communications? | Amir Galor | TEDxYouth@Hangzhou" (2019). The <<life-of-brian-nazi-jew,Nazi Jew scene from The Life of Brian>> comes to mind very strongly.

Y-Platform had a 3.5M investment from <<weibo>>: https://www.finsmes.com/2020/03/y-platform-completes-3-5m-series-a-funding-round.html

Media:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SJcr29TmNo Ychina YouTube channel
* https://www.facebook.com/ychinamedia Facebook Video channel (reposts)
* https://www.linkedin.com/in/raz-gal-or-5a454866/ reads "Founder of Y-Platform (歪果仁研究协会) - a leading online video Multi-channel Network (MCN) in China. Y-Platform manages more than 30 online influencers/channels with a total of 100+ million followers on social media networks, averaging 500 million views per month."
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdG3HsxlTD8 Failure is the best thing I've experienced | Raz Galor | TEDxYouth@Hangzhou (2019). He was featured in TEDx like his father

Sample posts:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67pU0Ybovnc What I saw in Xinjiang working as a Cotton Farmer by 歪果仁研究协会 Ychina (2021) reply video to <<xinjiang-cotton>>. He got access to Xinjiang. Deep links.
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGDYk7GSX-Q SHOCKING! Is United States Gonna Take Down <<wechat>> Too？ by 歪果仁研究协会 Ychina (2020) At which point every single Western chat program is blocked in China.

Highlighted in <<chinese-government-media>>:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=370&v=AvN5X_pOFio "Expat YouTubers attacked for pro-China views" by <<cgtn>> (2021)

Associates:

* Lila Kidson (alias 星悦/StarHappy), appears very frequently e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SJcr29TmNo[]. According to https://thenanyan.com/2020/03/02/ychina-a-pku-international-alumni-and-student-led-media-group-fights-the-coronavirus/ also names his associates she is "an American who studies in PKU, the vice president [of Ychina]"
* from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1K2KGgxPy2U[] How has life CHANGED for American citizens during the Epidemic outbreak? (2020):
** Dylan Jaye (dylanjayezyl, 钟逸伦)
*** https://www.instagram.com/dylanjayezyl
*** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQtHY3QWxjY "Ychina Music | “Another Day In China” RAP" (2017)
** Chris TODO
* from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyRuCWyv2vo
** Brian

[[jerry-goode]]
====== Jerry Goode (诸葛杰瑞)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsTN4QPCXbI

Sample videos:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsTN4QPCXbI Livestream - CENSORSHIP in CHINA is to Protect the People on <<censorship>>
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqkD8JBCm-k Inside a Mosque XINJIANG Urumqi! on how <<xinjiang>> is great
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCdfPxMcOoQ The Truth about Larung Gang - Tibetan Buddhists! on how <<tibet>> is great
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBH4H1qX1Dw CHINA Changed us! ft. Oli BARRETT from <<barrett-channel>>

====== World war 2 radio propaganda

During WW2, lots of pro-<<nazi,Nazi>> and pro-Alllied radio propaganda was produced and transmitted to the enemy:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_propaganda[Radio propaganda]
* https://www.history.com/news/6-world-war-ii-propaganda-broadcasters
* http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/wwii/b1.html

Most notable pro-Nazi ones:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Joyce William Joyce (alias https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Haw-Haw[Lord Haw-Haw])
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His broadcasts opened with "Germany calling, Germany calling" and were spoken in a faked affected upper-class English accent.
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They seem to be very just boring propaganda news however, no jokes.
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William Brooke Joyce (24 April 1906 – 3 January 1946), nicknamed Lord Haw-Haw, was an American-born British fascist politician and Nazi propaganda broadcaster to the United Kingdom during World War II. He took German citizenship in 1940.

Joyce was convicted of one count of high treason in 1945 and sentenced to death, with the Court of Appeal and the House of Lords both upholding his conviction. He was hanged on 3 January 1946, making him the last person to be executed for treason in the United Kingdom.
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** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe-THrWu_4I Lord Haw Haw William Joyce Final Broadcast 1945
** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtUcGR0Og6c AP hanging news
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_Sally[Axis Sally]
** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_Zucca[Rita Zucca]
** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mildred Gillars[Mildred Gillars]. A large Hollywood production was made about her in 2021: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American Traitor: The Trial of Axis Sally[American Traitor: The Trial of Axis Sally]
** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Henriot[Philippe Henriot] pro-Nazi in French
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Henry_Best[Robert Henry Best], alias "Mr. Guess Who"
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Anderson_(American_journalist)[Jane Anderson], alias "The Georgia Peach"
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Wilhelm_Kaltenbach[Frederick Wilhelm Kaltenbach], alias "Lord Hee Haw"

Most notable Allied ones:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sefton_Delmer[Sefton Delmer], who actually carried out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_propaganda[black propaganda] (false flag propaganda that identifies as coming from the enemy itself). Related terms:
** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_propaganda[White propaganda]: identifies its source, e.g. <<rfa>>
** Gray propaganda: does not identify source
** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_warfare[political warfare]. The main photo of the wiki page is Sun Tzu :-)
*** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_warfare[Psychologial warfare]

.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrT3rILfIzA "Tokyo Rose" - WW2 Traitor or Victim? by  Mark Felton Productions (2021) talks about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Rose[Tokyo Rose] (https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/東京玫瑰[東京玫瑰]), alias for several women who broadcast English propaganda for the Japanese, but most notably https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iva_Toguri_D%27Aquino[Iva Toguri D'Aquino]. This one was really good, she was cute and made fun of herself, and played music, the Americans actually enjoyed listening to it. Soft power at its best.
video::HrT3rILfIzA[youtube,height=400,width=600]

[[real-username-law]]
==== Real username law (2015)

* 2015-03 China forces real usernames on the net, and provoking ones
** https://advox.globalvoices.org/2015/04/16/new-internet-rules-in-china-target-usernames-avatars-as-subversive-tools/ "New Internet Rules in China Target Usernames, Avatars as Subversive Tools"
** https://www.engadget.com/2015/02/28/china-username-policy-purge/ "Chinese internet giants purge 60,000 accounts for inappropriate usernames"

And guess which idiotic Western website requires real usernames and no privacy? <<quora>>, of course: https://techcrunch.com/2011/02/14/quora-to-oddly-named-users-papers-please/

==== Journalism

===== Western journalists in China

* 2020-09-21 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-21/matthew-carney-foreign-journalist-china-intimidation-birtles/12678610 "'You will be put into detention': Former ABC bureau chief tells story of fleeing China for first time"
* 2016 <<video-bbc-local-election-interview-block-2016>>
* 2015 Ursula Gauthier from <<liubukou-massacre,Luibukou massacre>>

[[social-credit-system]]
=== Social Credit System (社会信用体系)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/社会信用体系

Coverage:

* 2019-06-04 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cGB8dCDf3c "A Look Inside China's Social Credit System | NBC News Now" by "NBC News"
* 2018-12-12 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dkw15LkZ_Kw "China's "Social Credit System" Has Caused More Than Just Public Shaming (HBO)" by "VICE News". https://youtu.be/Dkw15LkZ_Kw?t=238[328s] shows how you can donate money to the party to increase your score. This is not a hidden practice, they were filmed and everyone is showing their faces. What a brilliant idea that could never ever lead to corruption! Ciro's jaw just dropped. How can the commies not hide this kind of shit from the West, but hide other stuff the West couldn't care less about?
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video::Dkw15LkZ_Kw[youtube,height=400,width=600]

=== Chinese foreign interference campaigns

See also:

* <<chinese-interference-in-western-media>>
* <<chinese-interference-in-the-western-education-systems>>

[[belt-and-road-initiative]]
==== Belt and Road Initiative (一带一路)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_and_Road_Initiative
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/一带一路

Related:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperation_between_China_and_Central_and_Eastern_European_Countries Cooperation between China and Central and Eastern European Countries
* 17+1合作

[[communist-youth-league]]
=== Communist Youth League of China (中国共产主义青年团)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Youth_League_of_China
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中国少年先锋队

Had a membership of 109 million (by the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17th_National_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_China[17th National Congress]).

Such state sponsored youth organizations are a hallmark of <<dictatorship,dictatorships>>, and serve both as an indoctrination device, and as a selection tool for future politicians:

* <<hitler-youth>>
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komsomol[Komsomol] was the Soviet youth organization

One may argue that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scout_Association[the scouts] are https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/creator-of-taggart-reveals-the-human-stories-behind-an-unlikely-and-unsettling-alliance-on-the-eve-of-wartherell-be-no-more-murders-tv-sleuth-writer-rules-out-comeback/[a similar organization in the West], but one notable difference is the scale of such dictatorship-led youth organizations.

Related news:

* 2020-02-19: https://supchina.com/2020/02/19/communist-youth-league-patriotic-idols/ "The Communist Youth League Thought It Was Creating Patriotic Idols. Instead, It Started A Conversation About Women's Rights". The anime-style mascots are named Jiangshanjiao 江山娇 and Hongqiman 红旗漫.

[[young-pioneers-of-china]]
==== Young Pioneers of China (中国少年先锋队)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Pioneers_of_China
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中国少年先锋队

<<brainwashed-by-usa,Brainwashing>> for kids younger than the <<communist-youth-league>>.

Related:

* <<little-pink-american-dream-vs-chinese-dream,Little pink explains the difference between the American dream  and the Chinese dream>>

[[xi-salute-young-pioneers]]
.<<xi-jinping>> basically <<nazi,Nazi saluting>> representatives attending the 7th National Congress of the <<young-pioneers-of-china>> in Beijing, June 1, 2015. http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-06/01/c_138108706.htm[Source] by <<xinhua>>.
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Xi_scout_salute.jpg[height=500]

.<<hitler-youth>> giving the <<nazi,Nazi salute to Hitler>> in https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/nazi-leader-adolf-hitler-smiles-while-uniformed-saxon-news-photo/3201090[1933]. https://www.thoughtco.com/hitler-youth-and-indoctrination-1221066[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Hitler_youth_salute.webp[height=500]

.Side-by-side comparisoin of <<xi-jinping>> saluting the <<young-pioneers-of-china>> and Hitler saluting the <<hitler-youth>>.
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Xi_scout_salute_vs_Hitler_Youth_salute.jpg[height=500]

[[red-army-school]]
===== Red Army school (红军小学)

* 2017 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/15/world/asia/china-schools-propaganda-education.html "To Inspire Young Communists, China Turns to ‘Red Army’ Schools"
* https://baike.baidu.com/item/红军小学/8664849 on <<baidu-baike>>
* https://www.zhihu.com/question/56068614 on <<zhihu>> "如何评价中国的红军小学?" (What do you think about the Red Army schools?)
* 2017 https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1081039.shtml on <<global-times>>

.Children dressed in clear-blue Red-army uniforms saluting the flag at a <<red-army-school>> in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beichuan_Qiang_Autonomous_County[Beichuan] (https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/北川羌族自治县[北川]).
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Red_army_school.jpg[height=400]


[[hitler-youth]]
===== Hitler Youth (希特勒青年团)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_Youth
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/希特拉青年團

The <<nazi,Nazi Germany>> youth organization.

[[one-child-policy]]
=== One-child policy (一孩政策, 1979–2015)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/一孩政策

http://ftp.iza.org/dp3214.pdf suggests that a 1% increase in the male/female sex ratio raised violent and property crime rates by some 3%, mentioned with percentage error at https://youtu.be/DytBlcScGNk?t=1304

[[rule-of-law]]
=== Rule of law (法治)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_law
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/法治

The commies keep saying over and over that rule of law is always observed.

Of course, some times shitty laws are passed, and we must fight those as well: <<follow-the-law>>.

But many times, the commies don't even bother setting up a bad law, they just fuck a million people and that's it.

But in reality they punish anyone who poses a political threat, even if they did nothing wrong themselves, some cases that come to mind:

* <<xinjiang>>: millions were jailed/forced to live with a spy in their homes, even though they were not terrorists themselves
* <<falun-gong>>: what did they do wrong to other people that deserves putting them in jail? Is <<flg-medication>> enough to justify that? Are you sure that it is not a political motivation?
* <<the-709-crackdown>>: even lawyers who support anyone who went against the state are imprisoned. How can there be any justice when lawyers are put in jail due to their choice of clients?
* 2020-06 Hao Runze, son of <<hao-haidong>>, lost his job because his father spoke up against the CCP. Did the CCP speak up for him, like they speak up whenever a Chinese citizen gets hurt?

Notably, they punish people for their general beliefs rather than specific actions:

* <<thoughtcrime>>
* <<flg-thoughtcrime>>

.On 2021-03-31, a uniformed Chinese cop called Qelbinur Sedik, who was a teacher in the <<xinjiang-re-education-camps>> who https://thediplomat.com/2020/08/confessions-of-a-xinjiang-camp-teacher/[fled China and spoke to the media what she saw], to menace her through her sister, who is still in China. When he noticed that she had taken a screenshot due to a screenshot sound, he immediately took off the uniform. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-56563449[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Qelbinur_Sedik_call_with_cop.jpg[height=400]

[[the-709-crackdown]]
==== 709 crackdown (2015, 中國709維權律師大抓捕事件)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/709_crackdown
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中國709維權律師大抓捕事件

Hundreds of human rights activists put into jail in quick succession. Short forms:

* 709大抓捕
* 710律师劫

709 refers to the date when the arrests started: 09 July 2015. There were about 200 arrests.

It is impossible to have <<rule-of-law>> when the lawyers for certain causes always go to jail.

News coverage:

* 2015
** https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/23/world/asia/china-crackdown-human-rights-lawyers.html
** https://edition.cnn.com/2015/07/13/china/china-activists-arrests/
** https://time.com/3954935/china-arrests-lawyers-human-rights/
** https://program-think.blogspot.com/2015/07/weekly-share-90.html from <<programthink>>
** 2015-11-24 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOlLxL3UZL8 "回首2015：709律师大抓捕" by <<rfa>>
* 2017
** 2017-04 https://citizenlab.ca/2017/04/we-cant-chat-709-crackdown-discussions-blocked-on-weibo-and-wechat/

Se also: <<intolerance>>

.<<badiucao>> cartoon of about 40 of the arrested lawyers. TODO full name list. https://twitter.com/badiucao/status/884005207830544385[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/709_lawyers.jpg[height=400]

[[picking-quarrels]]
==== Picking quarrels and provoking trouble (寻衅滋事罪)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picking_quarrels_and_provoking_trouble
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/寻衅滋事罪

[[inciting-subversion]]
===== Inciting subversion of state power (煽动颠覆国家政权罪)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inciting_subversion_of_state_power
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/煽动颠覆国家政权罪

Also known in the West as <<richer,voting>>.

[[hurt-the-feelings-of-the-chinese-people]]
===== Hurt the feelings of the Chinese people (伤害中国人民的感情)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurt_the_feelings_of_the_Chinese_people
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/傷害中國人民的感情

[[politically-sensitive]]
===== Politically sensitive (政治敏感)

That's how the censors refer to stuff <<censorship,censored>> for political reasons, e.g.:

* <<ciro-santillis-zhihu-ban-2018-06-25>>
* <<cac-report-website>>

See also:

* 知乎的"政治敏感"，到底是谁的"政治敏感"呢？ (Zhihu's "politically sensitive" is "politically sensitive" to whom?)
* https://jikipedia.com/definition/145472014 "政治敏感"
* http://www.hainmc.edu.cn/news/info/1018/1870.htm "习近平三招教你培养政治敏感性、预见性" (Xi Jinping's three methods teach you to <<flg-cult,cultivate>> political sensitivity and predictability).
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This stuff could have come directly out of <<nineteen-eighty-four>>'s "thoughcrime" references.
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On the website of a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hainan_Medical_University[Medical University], the CCP is infiltrated everywhere.
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Related: <<xi-jinping-thought>>.

Typing that on Google also suggested "People also searched for: 网络审查利弊" (What are the pros and cons of censorship?) Priceless. Bomb at: https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/150[]. <<dictatorship-variability>> comes to mind.

[[residential-surveillance]]
===== Residential Surveillance at a Designated Location (指定居所监视居住)

More accurately: in prison at a secret location, and without the rights to see who you wish, not even a lawyer.

=== Support for non-scientific traditional practices

This is especially interesting given that one of the main propaganda reasons for banning <<falun-gong>> was <<flg-medication>>:

* <<xu-xiaodong>> reveals support for Tai Chi
* 2020-06-03 Beijing considering censoring anti Chinese traditional medicine https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/03/beijing-draws-up-plans-to-outlaw-criticism-of-traditional-chinese-medicine

[[drink-tea]]
=== Police invite to drink tea (被请喝茶)

* <<zhihu>> https://www.zhihu.com/question/60504957 "被请喝茶是怎样的体验？"
* <<pincong>> https://pincong.rocks/question/7226 "请大家都来曝光下身边被请喝茶或者拘留的例子，让葱油们引以为戒，让更多的人看到土共的凶残"

[[central-party-school]]
=== Central Party School of the Communist Party of China (Central Party School, 中共中央党校, 中央党校))

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Party_School_of_the_Communist_Party_of_China
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中共中央党校

University to train the next dictators

Website: http://www.ccps.gov.cn/ (Central Committee Party School).

== Chinese companies

=== Zoom

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoom_Video_Communications
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoom

American company, with Chinese-born now American Citizen CEO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Yuan[Eric Yuan] (https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/袁征[袁征]), migrated to the US around 1997), and development teams largely China-based to reduce costs.

News:

* 2020-12-18: China-based exec Xinjiang Jin (https://cn.nytimes.com/technology/20201221/zoom-tiananmen-square/[靳新江]), AKA Julian Jin, charged with sabotaging Zoom conferences, FBI issued a wanted warrant for him.
** 2020-12-22 https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/how-zoom-violated-its-own-terms-service-access-china-s-n1252092 summarizes a bit more details about the block
** https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-55372493 "US charges ex-Zoom employee with shutting down Tiananmen Square events"