“China has a politically weaponized system of censorship; it is refined, organized, coordinated and supported by the state’s resources,” said Xiao Qiang, a research scientist at the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley, and the founder of China Digital Times. “It’s not just for deleting something. They also have a powerful apparatus to construct a narrative and aim it at any target with huge scale.”“This is a huge thing,” he added. “No other country has that.”
I wonder if he's tried discussing electoral fraud on one of the walled "garden" platforms lately.