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Critiques or discussions of the CCP generally devolve into flamewars. I've seen worse here. The site is more interesting for tech topics. Anything with a nationalistic component will become inflammatory.

There is an organized brigade somewhere out there, but I suspect the younger, overseas students "bring their own rations" out of a sense of national pride and alienation. If you call them paid agents, it will only make them dig in deeper.

> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

To back this up: I have met at least a few people who admitted to doing exactly this when they were younger. They weren't paid agents of the state. They just found it to be fun and morally righteous.

Which sounds like brigading?

I honestly don't think HN is capable of acting as a forum for these topics. It takes a lot of moderation and abuse prevention. The article is absolutely interesting and raises good points but this thread is already too polluted by cheap disinformation techniques (namely whataboutism) to have any meaningful discussion at this point. Good luck with this one mods!

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