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<<reddit>> threads:

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

.Elbow-to-elbow against the common enemy! French division of the Waffen SS (Coude a coude contre l'ennemi commun! Division française de la Waffen SS) 1942 propaganda poster for the French SS division, formally known as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33rd_Waffen_Grenadier_Division_of_the_SS_Charlemagne[33rd Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS Charlemagne]. Mentioned at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJpWB5hi3hQ French SS - Berlin 1945 by Mark Felton Productions (2020). https://www.parismuseescollections.paris.fr/fr/musee-carnavalet/oeuvres/coude-a-coude-contre-l-ennemi-commun-division-francaise-de-la-waffen-ss#infos-principales[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/French_Nazi_SS_poster_1942.jpg[height=600]

====== Tankie

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie

Adapted from the cold war, this term has been widely used to describe pro-CCP western people, i.e. <<ccp-apologists>>, examples:

* https://wokeglobaltimes.com/tankies-and-despair tankies, despair, and politics: a case study by the woke global times (2020) on <<the-woke-global-times>>
* https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughCommieSpam/comments/n29kc3/upvote_this_absolute_chad_to_piss_off_the_tankies/ Upvote this absolute chad to piss off the tankies at r/GenZedong on <<reddit>>

[[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.

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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]]
====== World war 2 radio propaganda (二战电台宣传)

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 websites requires real usernames and no privacy? <<quora>> and <<linkedin>>, of course: https://techcrunch.com/2011/02/14/quora-to-oddly-named-users-papers-please/

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

It is interesting to note that anonymous accounts are in theory banned, almost all Chinese people still have anonymous accounts, even <<little-pink,little pinks>>, brecause everyone is always afraid of saying the wrong thing, or of the payback of when the dictatorship falls.

* 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
* <<anonymous-middle-fingers,Anonymous middle fingers (2021)>>

==== 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]

[[young-pioneers-vs-hitler-youth]]
.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]), <<sichuan>>, 2015. https://correspondent.afp.com/red-army-school[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Red_army_school.jpg[height=500]

[[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

[[scarfolk-children-the-cause-of-crime]]
."Children: the cause of crime" spoof poster by <<scarfolk-council>> (2017). Applies perfectly to <<xinjiang>> forced abortion accusations. The <<one-child-policy>> also comes to mind. https://scarfolk.blogspot.com/2017/05/children-cause-of-all-crime.html[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Scarfolk_children_the_cause_of_crime.jpg[height=500]

[[core-socialist-values]]
=== Core socialist values (社会主义核心价值观)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_Socialist_Values
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/社会主义核心价值观

A list of 12 values the CCP claims to support, some of which are ridiculously and obviously the opposite, notably democracy and freedom.

Related:

* people in <<xinjiang>> being brainwashed to it: <<xinjiang-core-socialist-values,Xinjiang core socialist values>>.

We made a single image mocking all of them at: <<core-socialist-values-collage,core socialist values collage>>:

* 富强 Prosperity: https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/12/01/world/01china-migrants-16/01china-migrants-16-master1050.jpg from https://cn.nytimes.com/china/20171201/china-beijing-migrants/ from <<low-end-population>>
* 民主 Democracy: https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2014/06/1989-tiananmen-square-protests-photos/100751/ from <<tiananmen>> also shown at <<tiananmen-students-sitting,Tiananmen students sitting>>
* 文明 Civility: https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/WNK8eb40kU8FOyY5oNiCFwarxLM=/1200x748/media/img/photo/2014/06/tiananmen-square-25-years-ago/t21_06030443/original.jpg from https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2014/06/1989-tiananmen-square-protests-photos/100751/ from <<tiananmen>> also shown at <<tiananmen-girl-strife,tiananmen-girl-strife>>
* 和谐 Harmony: https://archive.ph/MIjcT/0c972e9b131f48087bfa2ed53caee215a79e5a45 from https://www.ft.com/content/84dd7e32-cbe5-11e9-99a4-b5ded7a7fe3f from <<hong-kong-protests-2014>>
* 自由 Freedom: <<xinjiang-lop-county,Xinjiang Lop County>>
* 平等 Equality: <<lampstand-church-demolition,Lampstand chutch demolition>>
* 公正 Justice:  https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/0FC6/production/_96683040_0292729b-ad9f-4ea3-9d64-13c0200b74d9.jpg from https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-40403811 about <<liu-xiaobo>>
* 法治 Rule of law: <<jingjing-chacha>>
* 爱国 Patriotism: https://twitter.com/GFWfrog/status/1409862331375423489 from <<anonymous-middle-fingers,Anonymous middle fingers (2021)>> 
* 敬业 Dedication: https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/377446839[] from <<lie-flat-movement>>. Widely shared meme, could not determine original source anything .
* 诚信 Integrity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:VOA-Bo_Xilai.jpg[] from <<bo-xilai>> seems like the best bet. Someone from <<panama-papers>>. Can't find a photo of Deng Jiagui, he just looks corrupt. Related: <<corruption>>.
* 友善 Friendship: maybe something from <<falun-gong>> oppression,  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/27/anastasia-lin-miss-world-canada-falun-gong-practitioner-china-persecution also mentioned at <<falun-gong-police-step-over-head,falun-gong-police-step-over-head>>

TODO improve:

* 法治 Rule of law
* 文明 Civility
* 公正 Justice
* 平等 Equality

.Core socialist values displayed on street near https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jianguo_Men_station[Jiaguomen metro station] (https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/建国门站[建国门站]) in Beijing on July 2021, with the most ridiculously fake ones highlighted by <<ciro-santilli>>. https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/oek06g/road_decoration_in_beijing/[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Core_socialist_values_near_Jianguomen_metro_station_2021.jpg[height=600]

[[core-socialist-values-collage]]
.Collage mocking each of the core socialist values by <<ciro-santilli>>. Image sources given at: <<core-socialist-values>>. Composition license: CC BY-SA 4.0 2021, most individual images are only fair use however.
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Core_socialist_values.jpg[height=1000]

[[democracy]]
==== Democracy (民主)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/民主

The most obviously fake of the <<core-socialist-values>> that China does not have at all.

Why democracy would be good: <<richer>>.

Related:

* <<german-high-school-coordinator-2020>>

[[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]

[[scarfolk-whatever-you-do-dont]]
."Whatever you do, don't" spoof poster by <<scarfolk-council>> (2013). This applies perfectly to <<stack-overflow-mods-refuse-to-clarify-if-anti-ccp-imagery-is-allowed-or-not-2021>> Was actually given in the answer by Journeyman Geek's answer, and was the first time Ciro saw Scarfolk. so kudos for that. https://scarfolk.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-dont-campaign-and-kak-1973.html[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Scarfolk_whatever_you_do_dont.jpg[height=500]

[[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]

[[i-need-to-talk-to-a-human-rights-lawyer]]
."I need to talk to a human rights lawyer. Well, you've come to the right place." by <<harry-harrison>> (2015), presumably referring to <<the-709-crackdown>>. https://www.facebook.com/scmp/photos/a.10150201552699820/10153429166334820[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/I_need_to_talk_to_a_human_rights_lawyer.jpg[height=400]

[[scarfolk-win-your-human-rights]]
."Win your human rights" spoof poster by <<scarfolk-council>> (2016). https://scarfolk.blogspot.com/2016/08/human-rights-lottery-advertisement-1976.html[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Scarfolk_win_your_human_rights.jpg[height=500]

[[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]]
== Chinese companies (中国公司)

=== 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"
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Zoom statement:
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"We learned during the course of our investigation that the China-based former employee charged today violated Zoom's policies by, among other things, attempting to circumvent certain internal access controls," it said.

It added that the employee "took actions resulting in the termination of several meetings in remembrance of Tiananmen Square and meetings involving religious and/or political activities" and "also shared or directed the sharing of a limited amount of individual user data with Chinese authorities".
____
** https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/counterintelligence/xinjiang-jin
** (possible uncofirmed linkedin) https://www.linkedin.com/in/julien-jin-953615175/[]: Zhejiang University, (ex?) CISCO Webex. Work start date of 1981 could be birth date to enlarge work experience, and that would reach the correct age of 39.
* 2020-06-10 <<zhou-fengsuo>>'s account as blocked after a celebration of <<tiananmen>>, which was attended by many people from China. The account was later reinstated, Zoom said it acted on a CCP request on error, and it won't do this for users outside of China anymore:
** https://www.reuters.com/article/us-zoom-video-commn-privacy/zoom-says-china-demanded-shutting-activists-accounts-over-tiananmen-event-idUSKBN23I3GP "U.S. lawmakers ask Zoom to clarify China ties after it suspends accounts"
** https://www.axios.com/zoom-closes-chinese-user-account-tiananmen-square-f218fed1-69af-4bdd-aac4-7eaf67f34084.html "Zoom closed account of U.S.-based Chinese activist 'to comply with local law'".
** https://docs.google.com/document/d/12DM3ccTe70yzqCDPu9uXlCD7WmfJq-yzvKdKBH0oppc/edit

.2020-03-27 photo showing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Johnson[UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson] using Zoom on a Cabinet meeting (a high level Government meeting) during <<covid>>. If you don't properly ban risky dictatorship-linked software, it will get used at the highest levels of Government by clueless people. https://news.sky.com/story/coronairus-cabinet-talks-held-on-zoom-days-after-software-was-banned-by-ministry-of-defence-11963889[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Zoom_Boris.jpg[height=400]

[[huawei]]
=== Huawei (华为, Chinese Qualcomm)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huawei
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/华为

Just look at the Chinese name of the company:

* 华 (China)
* 为 (to do something for)

How can the West not see this?

No proof is needed. They belong to a <<dictatorship>>, and therefore must not be trusted. Doing so is always a risk which we should not take.

Also have a look at their Wikipedia page:

____
Ren sought to reverse engineer foreign technologies with local researchers. At a time when all of China's telecommunications technology was imported from abroad, Ren hoped to build a domestic Chinese telecommunication company that could compete with, and ultimately replace, foreign competitors.

During its first several years the company's business model consisted mainly of reselling private branch exchange (PBX) switches imported from Hong Kong. Meanwhile, it was reverse-engineering imported switches and investing heavily in research and development to manufacture its own technologies. By 1990 the company had approximately 600 R&D staff and began its own independent commercialization of PBX switches targeting hotels and small enterprises.

The company's first major breakthrough came in 1993 when it launched its C&C08 program controlled telephone switch. It was by far the most powerful switch available in China at the time. By initially deploying in small cities and rural areas and placing emphasis on service and customizability, the company gained market share and made its way into the mainstream market.

Huawei also won a key contract to build the first national telecommunications network for the People's Liberation Army, a deal one employee described as "small in terms of our overall business, but large in terms of our relationships". In 1994, founder Ren Zhengfei had a meeting with Party general secretary Jiang Zemin, telling him that "switching equipment technology was related to national security, and that a nation that did not have its own switching equipment was like one that lacked its own military." Jiang reportedly agreed with this assessment.

Another major turning point for the company came in 1996 when the government in Beijing adopted an explicit policy of supporting domestic telecommunications manufacturers and restricting access to foreign competitors. Huawei was promoted by both the government and the military as a national champion, and established new research and development offices.
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At any point the Chinese government could make a request that they cannot deny.

List of bad things Huawei has done: https://github.com/evil-huawei/evil-huawei Mostly not political.

List of Huawei joke:s https://github.com/HuaweiJoke/Huawei-Joke "This project is collecting jokes about Huawei company that are deleted due to censorship. You are welcome to contribute."

Some news:

* 2021-01-13 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-55634388 "Huawei patent mentions use of Uighur-spotting tech". Related: <<em_nation_type_uygur-2020>>
* 5G 2019-2020
** in 2020 the UK was trying hard to get kicked out of the 5 eyes in 2020 by using 5G equipment from Huawei
** 2020-06-25 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-53178998 "Huawei's £1bn research centre near Cambridge approved" so despite all the 5G stuff, the UK still allows them to create a new research center in the UK... are they blind?
** https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/28/tech/huawei-5g-uk/index.html (https://web.archive.org/web/20200129023355/https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/28/tech/huawei-5g-uk/index.html[archive]) "UK will allow Huawei to help build its 5G network despite US pressure"
** 2020-04-17 only after more than 10 thousand people died in the country during <<covid>> did the brits finally change their minds: https://nypost.com/2020/04/17/uk-moves-to-drop-huawei-as-5g-vendor-citing-china-coronavirus-transparency/ "UK moves to drop Huawei as 5G vendor, citing China coronavirus transparency"
* 2018-12 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meng_Wanzhou[Meng Wanzhou] (孟晚舟), daughter of Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei (任正非) and Huawei CFO as of 2018, was arrested in Canada because the US accused her of breaking Iran sanctions
** https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-michael-kovrig-michael-spavor-canadian-detainees-china-explainer/ "Why are Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor still detained in China?" in apparent retaliation, under accusation of espionage.
** 2020-05-27 https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/27/canada-court-finds-against-huawei-cfo-meng-wanzhou-on-double-criminality-extradition-trial-to-continue/ "Canada court finds against Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou on double criminality; extradition trial to continue"
* 2019-11 https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/11/29/has-huaweis-darkest-secret-just-been-exposed-by-this-new-report/#7896db9d4061 "Has Huawei's Darkest Secret Just Been Exposed By This New Surveillance Report?" Xinjiang Papers reveal the extent of Huawei's involvement in <<xinjiang>>

.When you send a good joke from your Huawei phone (你用你的华为手机发个好笑话的时候), <<xi-jinping>> is also listening and laughing with you, girls. https://i.redd.it/nodgcqmwtcg31.jpg[Source], shitty Chinese translation by <<ciro-santilli>>.
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/When_you_send_a_good_joke_from_your_Huawei_phone.jpg[height=600]

.<<rebel-pepper>> 2018-12-10 "Why does the whole world hate me" Huawei cartoon, where Huawei's shadow shows the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammer_and_sickle[hammer and sickle] to suggest that Huawei is controlled by the CCP. https://www.rfa.org/english/cartoons/Huawei-cartoon-12102018152050.html[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Huawei_why_does_the_whole_world_hate_me.jpeg[height=400]

.<<rebel-pepper>> 2019-03-08 showing Huawei slapping the Statue of Liberty with "The Constitution of the United States" when Huawei sued the US Government for violating the Constitution when it banned government agencies from buying Huawei equipment. This illustrates the usual dilemma where <<what-should-western-countries-do-about-china,China uses Western freedom of speech as a weapon against the West itself>>. https://www.rfa.org/english/cartoons/chinashuawei-03082019162541.html[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Huawei_Statue_of_Liberty.jpeg[height=400]

.Cartoon showing a huge China flag branded USB sucking up Western personal and military information like a vacuum cleaner in 2019-04-29 article entitled "Britain will regret doing business with Huawei". TODO cartoon author. https://retro-blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/04/britain-will-regret-doing-business-with-huawei/[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/China_USB_theft.jpg[height=400]

.Cartoon suggesting that Huawei's 5G is a like a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Horse[Trojan Horse] being gifted to Europe. TODO: source of original non-China generic Trojan Horse background image that was edited and repurposed. https://twitter.com/DaichiWatanbe/status/1231189285325475840[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Huawei_5G_Trojan.jpg[height=400]

.<<rebel-pepper>> 2019-06-22 cartoon depicting Germany, Hungary and the United Kingdom as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gollum[Gollum]s from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings[The Lord of The Rings] and China as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauron[Sauron] offering a ring which reads "5G to rule them" and "Huawei" to the Gollums who are eager to obtain it. This is a reference to The Lord of the Rings backstory in which Sauron bribed and controlled the rulers of the world by giving them https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rings_of_Power[rings of power]. Now that Ciro thinks about it, maybe this was actually Tolkien making a reference to the political situation of his time. https://twitter.com/RadioFreeAsia/status/1100504518142365698[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Huawei_5G_my_precious.jpg[height=400]

[[tiktok]]
=== TikTok (Douyin, 抖音)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TikTok
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/抖音

News:

* 2020-11-05  https://www.businessinsider.com/tiktok-censor-china-critical-content-uighur-uighurs-2020-11?r=US&IR=T "A senior TikTok executive admitted the company used to censor content critical of China, 'specifically with regard to the Uighur situation'", related to: <<xinjiang-re-education-camps>>
* 2020-07 https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/23/tiktok-creator-fund-200-million-us/ "TikTok unveils $200 million fund for U.S. creators": TikTok is trying to buy their stay in the West.
* 2020-07 https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2020/06/26/warning-apple-suddenly-catches-tiktok-secretly-spying-on-millions-of-iphone-users/#5265c8d734ef "pple Suddenly Catches TikTok Secretly Spying On Millions Of iPhone Users" by reading from the clipboard
* 2020-06 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53225720 India bans TikTok after Ladakh border tensions
* 2020-05 <<liu-keqing-singer>>
* 2019-11-28 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/28/tiktok-says-sorry-to-us-teenager-blocked-after-sharing-xinjiang-videos[]: "TikTok sorry for blocking teenager who disguised Xinjiang video as make-up tutorial". Subtitle: "Chinese-owned video sharing platform blocked Feroza Aziz after she posted film disguised as makeup tutorial"
* 2019-11 https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2019/11/25/20976964/chinese-americans-censorship-wechat-hong-kong-elections-tiktok

Reports:

* 2020-08 https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3982027 photo of ByteDance top brass with CCP members in Beijing and description of their meeting. Because obviously they have strong ties with the CCP like any other Chinese company.
* 2020-03 https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/fug8i1/the_chinese_tiktok_just_began_an_uninterrupted/ "The Chinese Tik-Tok just began an uninterrupted propaganda stream." during <<covid>>
* https://twitter.com/JoshuaDummer/status/1280877750245453828 "Wife trying livestreaming on Douyin. Comes over to me in the middle of a stream and puts me on camera. After about a minute, notice pops up saying that foreigners are not allowed to appear on livestreams 'without permission'."
** https://twitter.com/JoshuaDummer/status/1280881420047511552/photo/1
** https://twitter.com/JoshuaDummer/status/1280882119913291776/photo/1

Douyin does not seem to have a web interface: https://www.zhihu.com/question/269102675 "有没有抖音网页版或者抖音电脑版？"

[[baidu]]
=== Baidu (百度, Chinese Google)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baidu

The "Google of China":

* Search engine: original business and still served at the toplevel domain
** https://www.baidu.com/
** Autocomplete suggestion for "Ciro Santilli": "cirosantilli的妻子" (Ciro Santilli's wife and Children)
** Clearly and obviously censors pages with <<keyword-attack,keywords>>, e.g.:
*** https://www.baidu.com/s?wd=Ciro%20Santilli%20Stack%20Overflow["Ciro Santilli Stack Overflow"] hits https://stackoverflow.com/users/9160762/ciro-santilli and not https://stackoverflow.com/users/895245/ciro-santilli-郝海东冠状病六四事件法轮功 which has way greater reputation (https://web.archive.org/web/20200807071610/https://www.baidu.com/s?wd=Ciro%20Santilli%20Stack%20Overflow[archive]). For example, a much smaller account with a much more common name hits: https://stackoverflow.com/users/763246/james-hill | https://web.archive.org/web/20200807072446/https://www.baidu.com/s?wd=james%20hill%20stack%20overflow
*** https://www.baidu.com/s?wd=cirosantilli%20github["cirosantilli github"] does not hit https://github.com/cirosantilli (https://web.archive.org/web/20200807071807/https://www.baidu.com/s?wd=cirosantilli%20github[archive])
*** but there does appear to be a manual aspect to the block possibly. For example, Ciro's top answer does hit, even though he has keywords in the page: https://www.baidu.com/s?&wd=dependencies%20devDependencies%20peerDependencies to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18875674/whats-the-difference-between-dependencies-devdependencies-and-peerdependencies (https://web.archive.org/web/20200807072151/https://www.baidu.com/s?&wd=dependencies%20devDependencies%20peerDependencies[archive])
*** Pages censored in China do hit outside of China at least however, e.g.: https://www.baidu.com/s?wd=twitter first hits https://twitter.com (https://web.archive.org/web/20200807071312/https://www.baidu.com/s?wd=twitter[archive])
* Tieba blogging
** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baidu_Tieba
** https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/百度贴吧
** https://tieba.baidu.com
* Maps
** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baidu_Maps
** https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/百度地图
** Google Maps is not allowed to film in China for Streetview, so Baidu has its own
* Analytics
** https://tongji.baidu.com/web/help/article?id=174
** 百度统计代码介绍
** the <<cac>> uses their analytics as of 2020

[[baidu-baike]]
==== Baidu Baike (百度百科, Chinese censored Wikipedia clone)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baidu_Baike
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/百度百科

The leading Chinese Wikipedia clone by <<baidu>>.

<<censorship,Censored to the brim>> needless to say, see e.g. <<baidu-baike-censorship-of-hao-haidong>>.

Website: https://baike.baidu.com/[].

Seems to not have edit history. <<wayback-machine,History >> is bad for censorship, because you never know when you might need to rewrite it ;-) See also: <<nineteen-eighty-four>>.

Also has:

* a blogging platform embedded into it called TA说, e.g.: https://web.archive.org/web/20210413095903/https://baike.baidu.com/tashuo/browse/content?id=c9fdac1dcf27bdd1280ac9e1&lemmaId=22214113&fromLemmaModule=pcBottom
* a decent, but unarchivable, comment section: https://web.archive.org/web/20210427075821/https://baike.baidu.com/planet/talk?lemmaId=22214113

[[sohu]]
==== Sohu (搜狐, smaller Chinese Google)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sohu
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/搜狐

Literal name translation: "search fox". The English name and domain name are not in proper pinyin, the proper pinyin is souhu.

But since there is no "so" syllable in pinyin, and the sound is correct in English, it was a good replacement.

A less successful <<baidu>>, but still considerable.

In addition to search, also has:

* blogs, e.g. https://www.sohu.com/a/270132785_100279655 from <<xiang-gong>>

[[alibaba]]
=== Alibaba (阿里巴巴, Chinese Amazon clone)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alibaba_Group
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/阿里巴巴集团

[[jack-mas-disappearance-2021]]
==== Jack Ma's disappearance (马云的失踪, 2021)

Got https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bitch%20slapped[bitchslapped] by <<xi-jinping>>, 3 months disappearance:

* 2021-02-16 https://web.archive.org/web/20210219160944/https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-blocked-jack-mas-ant-ipo-after-an-investigation-revealed-who-stood-to-gain-11613491292 "China Blocked Jack Ma’s Ant IPO After Investigation Revealed Likely Beneficiaries. Well-connected Chinese power players, including some with links to political families that represent a potential challenge to President Xi". Mentioned specifically are Jiang Zhicheng
* https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/jan/23/the-strange-case-of-alibabas-jack-ma-and-his-three-month-vanishing-act

.Cartoon of Jack Ma, <<winnie-the-pooh>> (representing <<xi-jinping>>) and <<that-rabbit>> (representing the Chinese people) splitting cookies. Winnie has a huge pile, Jack has a medium pile, and That Rabbit has a tiny pile. Winnie is saying "那个资本家夺走了你的饼干！" (That capitalist stole your cookies!). The cartoon suggests that the Chinese state has a lot of money and power, extremely successful entrepreneurs have a medium power, and the common people, who are manipulated by the CCP, have basically nothing. https://www.reddit.com/r/chonglangTV/comments/lyxlf9/不_言_而_喻一_目_了_然/[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Jack_Ma_Winnie_the_Pooh_and_That_Rabbit_splitting_cookies.jpg[height=500]

[[jack-ma]]
==== Jack Ma (马云)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ma
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/马云

[[xiaomi]]
=== Xiaomi (小米, cell phone company)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiaomi
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/小米集團

News:

* https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2020/04/30/exclusive-warning-over-chinese-mobile-giant-xiaomi-recording-millions-of-peoples-private-web-and-phone-use/?sh=6cceaf311b2a "Exclusive: Warning Over Chinese Mobile Giant Xiaomi Recording Millions Of People’s ‘Private’ Web And Phone Use".
+
____
When he looked around the Web on the device’s default Xiaomi browser, it recorded all the websites he visited, including search engine queries whether with Google or the privacy-focused DuckDuckGo, and every item viewed on a news feed feature of the Xiaomi software. That tracking appeared to be happening even if he used the supposedly private “incognito” mode.
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+
____
"It’s a backdoor with phone functionality," quips Gabi Cirlig about his new Xiaomi phone. He's only half-joking.
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[[netease]]
=== Netease (网易, online gaming company)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetEase
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/网易

Website: https://www.163.com/

Operates some MMORPGs in China. According to Wikipedia: "The company also owns several pig farms." That's the most amazing thing <<ciro-santilli>> has ever heard.

[[tencent]]
=== Tencent (腾讯, WeChat owner)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tencent
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/腾讯

==== oa.com

Tencent owns the oa.com domain since 2020 which they bought from some small early American Internet company, although they don't announce that clearly. But they have several subdomains of that being used actively.

https://domainnamewire.com/author/kasseylee/ mentions that it was sold for $609,068 in 2020, and references https://namebio.com/?s==QjN2UTN1kjM which gives date, value and sale location (https://sedo.com) but not buyer and seller info. https://domainnamewire.com/2020/09/16/why-are-two-letter-domains-so-sought-after-in-china/ says such domains are highly sought after in China.

Some subdomains on <<archive-today>>: https://archive.vn/*.oa.com

Domain selection:

* https://ilns.isec.oa.com[], which from the name is likely some kind of internal censorship/information security portal:
** 2021-07-22 4 hits one user from https://ilns.isec.oa.com to GitHub repository
** 2021-06-04 4 hits from 1 user. Note that this is <<tiananmen>> day.
** 2021-05-17 https://ilns.isec.oa.com/command-manage/command-analysis/2073645[]
* 2020-12-07 https://tapd.oa.com/markdown-style-guide/zh.html links to: http://einverne.github.io/markdown-style-guide/zh.html
* 2020-09-23 http://git.code.oa.com/wegame_server/rail/blob/master/docs/web_and_web_api/web-api-specification/web-api-specification.md to /markdown-style-guide/zh.html
* 2017-06 http://km.oa.com/articles/show/329260 to ELF hello world

[[wechat]]
==== WeChat (微信, Weixin)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WeChat
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/微信

The dominating Chinese WhatsApp clone as of 2020, with infinitely many other functionality added, notably payments.

The West should ban WeChat until one open source end to end encrypted chat app is made available in China.

[[sina]]
=== Sina Corp (新浪, Weibo owner)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sina_Corp
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/新浪

[[weibo]]
==== Weibo (新浪微博)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WeChat
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/微信

The dominating Chinese Facebook/Twitter clone as of 2020.

[[weibo-logo]]
.<<weibo>> logo vs Sauron's eye 微博标志vs索倫魔眼 by <<ciro-santilli>>.
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Weibo_Sauron.jpg[height=600]

[[ciro-santillis-weibo-block]]
===== Ciro Santilli's Weibo block (三西猴被微博屏蔽)

Somewhere around 2021, Ciro's Weibo was blocked: https://www.weibo.com/p/1005055601627311

Ciro never wrote any public posts in it, and only replied minimally to a few private messages many years before.

This clearly shows how Chinese platforms (obviously) target specific users specifically, regardless of what they did in a particular platform:

* unblocked 2021-02 https://archive.is/LUMsT
* blocked 2021-06 https://archive.is/U94Me

The block message afte redirect is:

____
该账号因被投诉违反法律法规和《微博社区公约》的相关规定，现已无法查看。

The account is now unavailable for being complained of violating laws and regulations and the relevant provisions of the "Weibo Community Convention".
____

Related:

* https://www.wakwb.com/ 我爱看围脖 seems to be a Weibo mirror. TODO is it uncensored? Sample post replication: the condom post from https://www.wakwb.com/t/?containerid=231522type%3D1%26t%3D10%26q%3D%23%E6%9D%9C%E8%95%BE%E6%96%AF%E7%88%B1%E6%97%A0%E9%99%90%23&luicode=10000011&lfid=231522type%3D1%26t%3D10%26q%3D%23%E6%9D%9C%E8%95%BE%E6%96%AF%E7%88%B1%E6%97%A0%E9%99%90%23&page=2 has origin at https://weibo.com/5586291457/K9Vg7ceM7?type=comment#_rnd1629010637474 see also <<communist-bread>>

[[qihoo]]
=== Qihoo 360 (奇虎360, Internet security company)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qihoo_360
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/奇虎360

[[chinese-censorship-companies]]
=== Chinese censorship companies (中国审查公司)

[[dahua-technology]]
==== Dahua Technology (大华股份)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahua_Technology
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/大华股份

Facial recognition, used in <<xinjiang>>.

===== EM_NATION_TYPE_UYGUR (2020)

https://twitter.com/q3k/status/1322943395497680897 highlighted a snippet of code:

....
    //民族
    public static class EM_NATION_TYPE extends MyStructure
    {
      public static final int EM_NATION_TYPE_UNKNOWN = 0;                   // 未知
      public static final int EM_NATION_TYPE_UYGUR = 1;                     // 维族(新疆)
      public static final int EM_NATION_TYPE_OTHER = 2;                     // 其他
      public static final int EM_NATION_TYPE_UNIDENTIFIED = 3;              // 设备未识别
    }
....

indicating that <<xinjiang,Uyghurs>> are particularly targeted for facial recognition by Dahua.

The code is present in official downloads from:

* https://dahuasecurity.s3-ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/uploads/soft/20200421/General_NetSDK_ChnEng_JAVA_Linux64_IS_V3.052.0000001.0.R.200407.zip
* http://web.archive.org/save/https://dahuasecurity.s3-ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/uploads/soft/20200421/General_NetSDK_ChnEng_JAVA_Linux64_IS_V3.052.0000001.0.R.200407.zip
* SHA256: f8052a5d19db090d155eae05ce5bf39177d4151ab46f7c454a1670b7b62a5d81

which was visible from: https://www.dahuasecurity.com/support/downloadCenter/softwares?child=3&page=2 under download name "General_NetSDK_ChnEng_JAVA_Linux64_IS_V3.052.0000001.0.R.200407" before being taken down after the reports:

* up 2020-11-03 https://web.archive.org/web/20201103025846/https://www.dahuasecurity.com/support/downloadCenter/softwares?child=3&page=2
* down 2020-11-04 https://web.archive.org/web/20201104220410/https://www.dahuasecurity.com/support/downloadCenter/softwares?child=3&page=2

The code was spotted mirrored on GitHub, likely unofficially, but it was soon taken down, archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20201102065525/https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gaomingbo/dahua-netsdk/master/src/main/java/com/dahua/lib/NetSDKLib.java

<<ciro-santilli>> downloaded it from the official website and verified that the code in question was there.

Discussions:

* https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/jmo42m/china_makes_use_of_video_software_tailored_for/
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24960749

On 2020-11-20, Dahua DMCAed https://github.com/cirosantilli/epps-service at https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/11/2020-11-25-Dahua.md which had been forked https://github.com/gaomingbo/epps-service from https://web.archive.org/web/20201102170146/https://github.com/cirosantilli/epps-service but Ciro is not sure it contains anything of particular interest, he had just forked all repos from gaomingbo. That one appeared to be just a car plate recognition sytem.

Related:

* 2021-01-13 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-55634388 "Huawei patent mentions use of Uighur-spotting tech", see also: <<huawei>>

[[knowlesys]]
==== Knowlesys (乐思软件)

* https://www.knowlesys.cn/
* http://www.knowlesys.com/

.Slide from a presentation of the Knowlesys Hong Kong social media censorship/misinformation company with words "Social Media as Weapons", "Your Enemy", leaked by the CCP_Unmasked hacker group on 2020/08/20, possible <<telegram>> account: https://t.me/ccp_unmasked[]. The leaks also contained data on  Yunrun Big Data Service, a company based in Guangzhou, and OneSight, based in Beijing. From this hack they apparently also managed obtained passwords used by those companies to manage CCP social media, and they posted some messages about their efforst through those accounts. Western countries have also used terrorism as an excuse way to reduce privacy/start wars, but of course, things are much worse in dictatorships where there is no freedom of speech, related <<evil-west>>. https://www.vice.com/en_in/article/dyzewz/hackers-leak-alleged-internal-files-of-chinese-social-media-monitoring-firmscv[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Social_Media_as_Weapons.webp[height=400]

[[zhenhua-data-leak]]
==== Zhenhua Data leak (深圳振华数据信息技术有限公司, 2020)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhenhua_Data_leak
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/深圳振华数据信息技术有限公司

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/14/zhenhua-data-full-list-leak-database-personal-details-millions-china-tech-company

[[backlinks]]
== Backlinks to this page (连接到这个网页的网页)

Or to Ciro's other online presences, due to China activity.

For Zhihu backlinks, see: <<zhihu-questions-related-to-ciro-santilli>>.

For lower profile links, see: https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/wiki

* 2021-07-15 https://weibo.com/3009149283/KoREYEIA2?type=comment#_rnd1629010985150 on <<weibo>> #反华 挂一个垃圾仓库 cirosantilli/china-dictatorship (#anti-china Found a trash repository.) Does not understand the CCP != China: <<does-ciro-santilli-hate-china>>. Perhaps this is what triggered <<ciro-santillis-weibo-block>>.
* 2021-08-13 https://www.kdocs.cn/ to https://github.com/cirosantilli/cirosantilli[]. That's a Google Docs clone it seems. Used by the Chengdu government. Chinese name: 金山文档 (golden mountain documents). Also had 50 unique cloners on 11 and 12th. Is it <<github-gov-takedowns>> time at last??
* 2021-07-22 http://se.warning.360.cn/warn/ to https://cirosantilli.com/ after adding keywords to page header. This is from <<qihoo>>, a security/spyware company.
* 2021-07 http://https--github--com--e3919.proxy.xianning.gov.cn/topics/chinese-communist-party[], presumably viewing https://github.com/topics/chinese-communist-party[]. Saw it http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:5qHGJxZncvUJ:https--github--com--e3919.proxy.xianning.gov.cn/topics/chinese-communist-party+&cd=8&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&lr=lang_en%7Clang_zh-CN%7Clang_zh-TW&client=ubuntu[on Google cache], semi viewable at https://archive.ph/wip/2qVIX[], but not rendering very well
* 2021-05-23 LinkedIn profile view from https://www.linkedin.com/company/circussocial/ Circus Social https://www.circussocial.com/[]. Some of their China stuff: https://www.circussocial.com/blog/tag/china-social-media/
* 2021-05-07 https://twitter.com/dingyi/status/1390861129191071754 (https://archive.ph/fS1TF[archive]) link to github.com/china-dictatorship commenting "Github 竟然还有这种项目。。。" (I'm surprised that there's still this kind of project on GitHub). Account had 150k followers at the time. What do they do to have so many followers? As of 2021-05-14, three days later after Ciro replied on 2021-05-11, the account had been made protected: https://archive.ph/davkj This is the <<chilling-effect>>, self-<<censorship,censor>> or perish. It was later un-protected. https://newsletter.dex.group/about/ says their DEX is a sort of online magazine. GitHub profile: https://github.com/dingyi
* 2021-04-16 https://manti.netease.com/ from <<netease>> to https://cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship can't find any information on it.
* 2021-03-23 https://my.cscglobal.com/ to cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship another compliance company, previous https://cms.securimate.com hits come to mind. China related articles:
** https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200728005641/en/CSC-Becomes-First-Foreign-Owned-Company-to-Receive-Domain-Registrar-License-in-China this company has some serious weight with Chinese regulators!
** https://www.cscglobal.com/service/webinar/china-web-policies/ talks mostly about ICP licenses
** https://www.cscglobal.com/service/webinar/china-ngo-law/
** https://www.cscglobal.com/cscglobal/pdfs/DBS/CSC-Your-Brand-Secured.pdf features Jayce Yeo, and mentions social media management
** https://medium.com/@hackermaderas/the-beginning-of-one-hackers-thoroughly-referenced-evidenced-osint-investigation-of-clearview-ai-1aa2e9109492 has a technical analysis that points that CSC has links to Clearview AI, and seem to be front-companies
- 2021-03-08 https://us3124.scholar.eu.org to GitHub repo. Redirects to: https://www.library.ac.cn/ip.html?f=us3124 which is a 403 "Your IP is not allowed to visit this site.
This site is only available in Mainland China." The about of the blog leads to another domain: https://www.virtual.hk/author/ircli but both seem to be mirrors. The website is a Wordpress which contain images of certain plants under a microscope, and "ircli" is the author's username.
- 2021-02-21 and 2020-02-22: https://developer.aliyun.com/ to https://cirosantilli.com and https://cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship The china-dictatorship landing pages had tracking queries leaked: `?spm=.14275010.0.0.60be9dc4PsRmA` and `?spm=a2c6h.14275010.0.0.60be9dc4vwIZTP`. The source domain is visible publicly and entitled 开发者社区 (Developer community) for Aliyun. Who knows, maybe Jack Ma's people are starting a full out revolt after he was put in jail! :) These tracking queries are added to every single one of their links, including outlinks, as can be seen at: https://developer.aliyun.com/article/616542 for example. Edit: noticed https://developer.aliyun.com/mirror/npm/package/china-dictatorship was removed, so that was it.
* 2021-02-18 https://cms.securimate.com securimate.com now redirects to https://steeleglobal.com "Your employees and business partners are confronted with ethical decisions every day that impact your company. To create a culture of integrity, you need to empower people to make the right choices. Steele partners with the world’s largest, most respected companies to deliver compliance products and services that help organizations embrace a culture of compliance while protecting their brand." Here we go. Securimate is a Texas-based acquisition apparently: https://www.planetcompliance.com/securimate/ Googling the company for China leads mostly to honorable anti-corruption and export compliance activityactivity e.g. https://steeleglobal.com/managing-third-party-vendors-china/ , nothing to do with brand protection of course, who would support a dictatorship to help their brand, right?
* 2020-09-09 https://www.xataka.com/servicios/github-inesperado-ultimo-reducto-libertad-expresion-gran-firewall-que-pone-jaque-intereses-china "Github, el inesperado último reducto de libertad de expresión ante el 'Gran Firewall' pone en jaque los intereses de China", Spanish for "Github, the unexpected last stronghold of freedom of expression before the 'Great Firewall' puts the interests of China in check" basically talking about <<cute-cat-theory-of-digital-activism>>. Links to https://github.com/cirosantilli/chenmei-caiwei-ziyou under link text "Terminus2049" which is a bit misleading, could be a link mistake, led to 15 unique clicks. Contacted author at: https://twitter.com/cirosantilli/status/1307717620863467522
* 2020-08-29 https://www.reddit.com/r/saraba2nd/comments/iipjov/github有哪些反共项目/ (Which anti-communist projects are there on GitHub?) <<github-repositories-with-censored-information>> of course! User spuspended when thread was found, so couldn't message them.
* 2020-05-23: traffic reached 3k views on that day, compared to a normal 150, but the number of individual users is the same as always. The accessed pages were only meta repo pages like "Issues", "Wiki", "Stargazers" so either of:
** someone attempted a baby DDoS with wget and a single IP
** someone is scraping repository metadata, e.g. Chinese secret service or some other commercial bot that landed here by chance for the first time
* 2020-05-09: http://lj.rossia.org/users/perfect_kiss/36513.html Google translated of about in that website: "LJ.Rossia.org (LJR) is a nonprofit project created to support freedom of speech, develop civil society and promote free exchange of views."
* 2020-04-21: 4 hits from https://raidforums.com/ but can't locate it, maybe coming from their very fast temporary chat wall
* 2019-10-31: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6595454363743981568/ (https://web.archive.org/web/20191101094814/https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6595454363743981568/[archive]) "Good rundown of all the major news from China you don't see. Notice how you don't see anything about the Hong Kong protests anymore?"
* 2019-10 https://github.com/kon9chunkit/GitHub-Chinese-Top-Charts/blob/7131e2c1158a806f41c8f55308977048b02d2959/README-Part2.md Automatically generated list of repos with Chinese characters in their descriptions with the most upvotes per programming language. TODO why is this repo on their README-Part2 only? Has more stars than some stuff on main README. Edit: now in main README: https://github.com/kon9chunkit/GitHub-Chinese-Top-Charts/tree/73ef00e9f846dd380769095f08648e5e1a06596f Let's see how long until it gets censored.
* 2019-10-12: https://hacpai.com/article/1570686552645 Login required, cowards. Post title: "更新 GitHub 官方 Repo 的人，竟然是个反华分子". Manual page dump after my replies with links to this FAQ: https://ia801505.us.archive.org/27/items/cirosantilli/hacpai_1570686552645.html OP then deleted my comments because they don't speak English "HacPai 是个文明的社区，不会发生辱骂的现象，你有你的观点，我们有我们的观点。但抱歉，我们的水平有限，没有阅读英文的能力，还请发送有效回复，否则只能折叠处理". It is some developper website: https://hacpai.com/article/1440573175609 (https://web.archive.org/web/20190811205230/https://hacpai.com/article/1440573175609[archive]) linked to https://github.com/b3log/solo[]. OP then made an useless post here: https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/70 As of 2019-10-12, I can't login there anymore, either because the website is shitty, or I was blocked. GitHub login just fails silently, cannot reset password. If blocked, cowards. This led me to update: <<reply-policy>> with the canned reply.
* 2019-09-13 https://twitter.com/sang_what/status/1172692888766959619 (https://archive.is/taPpH[archive]) https://t.co/qag5ekL12F link:https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/thoughts-github-going-china-kevin-xu/
* 2019-06: https://gking.harvard.edu/ interesting. OK, likely due to: https://gking.harvard.edu/category/research-interests/applications/information-control-by-authoritarian-governments but no direct links found though.
* 2019-05: someone used the FAQ to answer a question: https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/bt1mth/if_i_disappear_chinese_students_make_farewell/eou5a5q/ | https://web.archive.org/web/20190527072431/https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/bt1mth/if_i_disappear_chinese_students_make_farewell/eou5a5q/ "'If I disappear': Chinese students make farewell messages amid crackdowns over labor activism"
* 2019-04-10: https://twitter.com/jnzst/status/1115824398961913857 gGTYgFulPg
** https://twitter.com/jnzst/status/1111395254408613888
* 2019-01-10: https://twitter.com/ninoseki/statuses/1083512317952704512 | https://archive.is/vCwep 1300 followers.
* 2018-08: https://www.reddit.com/r/CCJ2/comments/93klir/moron_tries_to_dismantle_chinese_government_by | https://archive.is/HtYng "moron tries to dismantle chinese government by putting a few moon runes on some websites" Peak of 100 unique visitors/day from the base rate of 5
** led to: https://lihkg.com/thread/762440/page/1 <<lihkg>> https://archive.is/7REOi "佢個個人home page好多5毛留言, 唔知會唔會搞到block堆stackoverflow"
* 2018-07: http://4-ch.net/general/kareha.pl/1531480621/l50 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180815081351/http://4-ch.net/general/kareha.pl/1531480621/l50 "No more Xi Jinping"
* 2018-06: https://medarc.org/pac.txt | https://web.archive.org/web/20180712094944/http://medarc.org/pac.txt puts cirosantilli.com in a blacklist containing the likes of asianpiss.com and clearwisdom.net. Awesome. Then I grepped the main one https://github.com/gfwlist/gfwlist with `while true; do git checkout HEAD~; if ! base64 -d gfwlist.txt | grep -q cirosan; then break; fi; done` and found that I was added in 24a6f6f29e24d1d7eb27946bf51d7a072ddb3e6d Tue Apr 24 2018. That is input data for https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/autoproxy/ which turns on a proxy only for certain websites. Therefore that is a definitive list of interesting stuff. I wonder how it is curated.
* 2018-05: a few hits from https://chinadigitaltimes.net from <<china-digital-times>> but Google cannot find any links
* 2018-05-20: