Chinese are known to pay folks to post on foreign forums. I'm not sure who is behind these...fascinating stuff
Chinese are known to pay folks to post on foreign forums. I'm not sure who is behind these...fascinating stuff
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The "agenda", and "who is behind these", are overwhelmingly just internet users pontificating as internet users always pontificate. There's no need to sacrifice Occam for cloak-and-dagger sinistry, and bringing it into the threads nearly always has an extremely degrading effect.
Lots more explanation here: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
Not all criticism is a sign of national- or racially-targeted abuse. No one is above criticism.
But government-funded hackers (Chinese or otherwise) are capable of causing all sorts of havoc to my life. I try not to underestimate the operational threat they pose.
No, it can be reported via social media that you from the company X spread some aggression against LGBT (this is a hypothetical example). People get fired for much less when twitter is in action.