Reddit Set to Land $150M Investment from a Chinese Censorship Powerhouse

2. They're not trying to influence policy, but young impressionable Redditors. Even a 1% change in opinion can be huge at key moments, narrative framing is still effective, even things like the semblance of disagreement can be massively persuading.

I've witnessed my own national subreddit turn from a great little corner of the internet to a shill-ridden shithole. It probably only took the coordination of two or three real full-time people, some coordination on mod replacement, and clever software. But it has been remarkably effective.

The same tactics that worked for my little country would probably work as well or better in other subreddits, and there's no real creativity required to pull it off.

I can think of many cases where that isn't the case.

Or was slavery a reflection on the enslaved?

In a direct democracy that may be true, but no country I am aware of has one. Most countries vary from representative Democracy up through full Dictatorship, with the wider society having ever less input as you move up the scale.

In the Chinese system the government isn't meant to be a reflection of the people's views, the people are meant to be a reflection of the government's system.

> Questioning the actions of a group of people is not racism.

The whole crux of this isn't that they're criticizing the Chinese government, it is that they're saying a Chinese owned company cannot be trusted because their culture is subpar. If that isn't racism I don't know what it is.