YouTube bans almost 2,600 Chinese channels for influence operations 📦

59    06 Aug 2020 20:37 by u/lenn_king

7 comments

10 u/brainzilla 06 Aug 2020 20:50
Wow, did china forget to buy all the YT execs? They're usually so thorough.
7 u/None 06 Aug 2020 21:42
Time to short the Yuan, looks like the checks stopped clearing.
7 u/Matteus 06 Aug 2020 21:00
Yeah, good start and a surprising one, but it's not the overt stuff like this that is the main problem. It's all the subtle astroturfers and all the dollars the PRC pours into academia and corporations.
4 u/RidingMyKeyboard 06 Aug 2020 22:17
Yup. Banning Chinese channels wreaks of "*look, we did something!*". The real sources of influence and propaganda are going to be much more subtle; in fact, I dare say much of their messaging likely wouldn't even mention China directly.
5 u/dubya_tp 06 Aug 2020 22:26
Leftists be like: "That's a weird way to spell Russia"
1 u/Bradtastik 06 Aug 2020 23:52
Only took 15 years.
0 u/None 07 Aug 2020 00:03
Good