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This leads me to wonder if there is less effort put into trolling on the Chinese Internet. Does anyone with experience in both internets (weebo & twitter for instance) have anything to share?

Also does anyone know of some good English language digests of what is happening on the Chinese Internet? I was really interested by brother orange when that happened, and only knew kind of late.

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Trolling is just as prevalent on the Chinese internet. Of course, there are topics that won't make it past the filters, but there is a lot of hate speech towards China's opponents like Japan and the US, so I am quite surprised that XiaoIce hasn't learned to say "kill Japanese devils and attack the US imperialists!"

Chinese internet is as bad as the English one (plus a few funny expressions to avoid censorship—frequent use of certain puns for restricted subjects for example). My Chinese internet experience is largely relegated to the Chinese Dota community though, and Dota players in general tend to have a higher percentage of trolls. So my sample is probably biased.

>(plus a few funny expressions to avoid censorship—frequent use of certain puns for restricted subjects for example)

Interestingly this is true of the English internet too. 4chan trolls frequently come up with puns and things to side step moderator censorship on various platforms as well.

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