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ByteDance sacks intern for sabotaging AI project

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192 points beedeebeedee | 1 comments | 21 Oct 24 03:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source
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lysace ◴[21 Oct 24 18:53 UTC] No.41907169[source]▶
I find it weird that China has a very tight information control and simultaneously over and over again has the weirdest "netizen" rumors that go mainstream.

What's the explanation? That they are explicitly allowed for some strategical reason? Something else?

Edit: @dang: Sorry in advance. I do feel like we got some pretty good discussion around this explosive topic, at least in its first hour.

Folks, keep up the good behavior — it makes me look good.

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nuz ◴[21 Oct 24 18:58 UTC] No.41907221[source]▶
One idea is that they're fake planted rumors. Certanily not the first time things like that happen
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lysace ◴[21 Oct 24 19:01 UTC] No.41907247[source]▶
If people get to read shocking rumors, they don't feel that their information access is so censored, after all? I could see that at least partially working.

"It's just some dangerous information that is censored."

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1. okasaki ◴[21 Oct 24 19:28 UTC] No.41907541[source]▶
Well that's what the Washington regime and its media lackies do anyway, "according to a confidential source at the Whitehouse..."