Information operations directed at Hong Kong

This shit is goddamn terrifying. Since when are american corporations the arbiters of accurate, international, and political, information?

We just crossed the rubicon. Public, proactive action against a relatively hostile foreign power by a non-governmental entity. If this isnt proof positive we need to either bust these monopolies or completely overhaul our view of the power megacompanies wield, idk what is.

> Since when are american corporations the arbiters of accurate, international, and political, information?

They're not and that's not what this story is about.

These accounts were banned for violating Twitter's platform manipulation policy by spamming, co-ordinating activity across multiple accounts, creating fake accounts, mis-attributing their activity and evading bans.

An individual from Hong Kong or China is free to post exactly what these accounts tweeted.

From FB:

"We’re taking down these Pages, Groups and accounts based on their behavior, not the content they posted."

https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/08/removing-cib-china/

The view is being overhauled, slowly. I scantly believed myself the school presentation I did on Menwith Hill in 1999. My classmates' blank stares were removed by degrees from any understanding of the subject. Today children in school here are being taught to be suspicious of what they read on the internet, and not bully each other through the medium, yet said institution is not willing to relinquish their illusion of authority and demand that the kids think for themselves even though what remains is such a small step.

The TV series Max Headroom explored the subject over 30 years ago in quite some detail. It too was way ahead of its time. It's idea of TV viewership democracy is almost benign, compared to the reality of manufactured public opinion that we are waking up to.

Another easily accessible but rage-teasing production is a three-part documentary called The Century of The Self. I recommend it warmly.