How China’s internet death squads bully & suppress its critics into silence on the Western Internet
By: Martin A. Peterson
Tags: Propaganda, Censorship, China, Hong Kong

It’s been an open secret for years now that the CCP and its associated arms of influence are active in promoting propaganda on behalf of the totalitarian Chinese regime. To use a recent example, I have been hearing a lot lately — more than is necessary — about the “help” that China has been given to Italy amidst the Wuhan Virus pandemic that they started. It seemed that anonymous voices across the Internet — for example Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit among others — were suspiciously quick to lavish praise upon a regime that killed over 10,000 peaceful pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square. My point? The CCP believes that performing an occasional act of charity — however fake — will make some people forgive its history of genocide, invasion, lies and deception.

Which brings us to the here and now. Or should I say, my own encounters with the apologists of the totalitarian regime. Whoever they might pretend to be — often claiming to be ‘ordinary’ Americans — they are here, much like their Russian counterparts, to push an evil agenda and more recently to push state-sponsored lies and hatreds upon the West.

Case in point: I have had no less than 12 Twitter accounts, several Facebook accounts, and 4 Reddit accounts either hacked or censored after each one of those accounts was spotted by CCP operatives. In every case, the story was the same. They took objection to what I wrote, and descended in a locust like fashion upon my post, often using insults and death threats. Shortly afterwards, my account would be banned, presumably after being mass reported by the very same people who had threatened to kill me.

On Facebook for instance, I once found my passwords mysteriously changed after I made a post critical of the CCP’s continuing genocide in East Turkistan (which the CCP imperialists refer to as ‘Xinjiang’). Ditto when I posted an article supporting the peaceful pro-Democracy protesters in China-occupied Hong Kong. On other occasions, I would be blocked from posting for 30 days simply due to a very innocent post.

On Reddit, I was accused of “ban evasion” by someone whose entire posting history consisted solely of denial of the genocides in Tibet and East Turkistan. It must be mentioned here that Reddit is partially owned by TenCent, a company with strong links to the CCP. Reddit for instance, a system of ‘upvoting’ and ‘downvoting’ allows users to ‘rank’ comments and posts. On several occasions I found that after making a midly critical comment of the Chinese government’s policies, I would be baragged with dozens, if not hundreds or thousands of downvotes, and then have my account shortly deleted by the reddit admins for “ban evasion”.

Similarly, on YouTube, channels which criticize China have been demonetized and even shut down, while channels that praise China are allowed to exist and are even promoted. On Twitter, a similar problem exists. During the Hong Kong pro-democracy protests, for instance, it was found that Twitter was deleting pro-Hong Kong accounts on spurious grounds.

At least with Reddit, the reason for my account deletion could NOT have been “ban evasion”. I maintained two pro-China accounts on that platform, and none of them has ever received so much as a warning despite espousing extremist and genocidal views. Under one account, I suggested a nuclear attack on America, the extermination of all African-Americans, and clearly voiced ‘support’ (in character) for Han Chinese supremacism. In other cases, I would first pretend as if I was supporting the Chinese government, only to be banned later on when I changed my opinions. If my crime was truly ‘ban evasion’ then they should have banned all of my accounts. They should have banned the accounts that were pro-China and not just when they were changed to anti-China opinions. Yet these pro-China accounts are allowed, day after day, week after week, to spread hatred and filth against the West.

This for me is proof positive of pro-China favoritism across platforms. Of course I should point out that such behavior is not unique to China’s supporters. I have encountered similar intimidation from Trump supporters, as well as hardcore Christians and Muslims.

The CCP’s destructive romp thorough the Western Internet is an affront to free speech and freedom of expression that simply cannot go unopposed. Rather, the vast scope of its criminality (it really is criminality) and hatred of human rights must thoroughly be exposed, as must its collaborators who allow the CCP agents to run rampant. I, as a human being with a conscience, look with horror at the CCP’s ill-bred fairy tales and can’t help but think that honor means nothing to it. Principles mean nothing to it. All it cares about is how to unfurl the flag of deception, hatred, and genocide.If you don’t believe me, then consider that tangible progress toward stopping the CCP cannot depend on resolving “subtleties” or “technicalities”.