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The Chinese government has built up the world’s largest known online disinformation operation and is using it to harass US residents, politicians, and businesses—at times threatening its targets with violence, a CNN review of court documents and public disclosures by social media companies has found.

The Chinese government has built up the world’s largest known online disinformation operation and is using it to harass US residents, politicians, and businesses—at times threatening its targets with violence, a CNN review of court documents and public disclosures by social media companies has found.

The onslaught of attacks – often of a vile and deeply personal nature – is part of a well-organized, increasingly brazen Chinese government intimidation campaign targeting people in the United States, documents show.

The US State Department says the tactics are part of a broader multi-billion-dollar effort to shape the world’s information environment and silence critics of Beijing that has expanded under President Xi Jinping. On Wednesday, President Biden is due to meet Xi at a summit in San Francisco.

Victims face a barrage of tens of thousands of social media posts that call them traitors, dogs, and racist and homophobic slurs. They say it’s all part of an effort to drive them into a state of constant fear and paranoia.

  • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
    1611·
    1 year ago

    Who’s the dictator? Are their laws literally forced down upon the people? Is there no democratic process?

    According to the constitution, Cuba is a socialist republic where all members or representative bodies of state power are elected and subject to recall and the masses control the activity of the state agencies, the deputies, delegates and officials. Elections in Cuba have two phases:

    election of delegates to the Municipal Assembly, and election of deputies to the National Assembly. Candidates for municipal assemblies are nominated on an individual basis at local levels by the local population at nomination assemblies. Candidates for the National Assembly are nominated by the municipal assemblies from lists compiled by national and municipal candidacy commissions. Suggestions for nominations are made at all levels mainly by mass organizations, trade unions, people’s councils, and student federations. The final list of candidates for the National Assembly, one for each district, is drawn up by the National Candidacy Commission.

    Cuba’s national legislature, the National Assembly of People’s Power, has 605 members who sit for five-year terms. Members of the National Assembly represent multiple-member constituencies (2 to 5 members per district), with one Deputy for each 20,000 inhabitants

    Candidates for the National Assembly are chosen by candidacy commissions chaired by local trade union officials and composed of elected representatives of “mass organisations” representing workers, youth, women, students and farmers. The provincial and municipal candidacy commissions submit nominations to the National Candidacy Commission.

    Article 88(h) of the Cuban constitution, adopted in 1976, provides for citizen proposals of law, prerequisite that the proposal be made by at least 10,000 citizens who are eligible to vote.

    The Cuban government describes the full Cuban electoral process as a form of democracy. The Cuban Ministry of External Affairs describes the candidate-selection process as deriving from “direct nomination of candidates for delegates to the municipal assemblies by the voters themselves at public assemblies,” and points out that at the elections to the municipal assemblies, voters do have a choice of candidates. The ban on election campaigning is presented as “The absence of million–dollar election campaigns where resorting to insults, slander and manipulation are the norm.”

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_Cuba

    It’s different than our liberal “democracy” for sure. It has far more mass involvement at every level.

    https://cuba-solidarity.org.uk/cubasi/article/187/all-in-this-together-cubarsquos-participatory-democracy

    • Tedesche@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1310·
      1 year ago

      I don’t for one second believe you need this history lesson; you’re just trolling, but for the sake of documentation.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel_Castro#:~:text=Ideologically a Marxist–Leninist and,reforms were implemented throughout society.

      There is no possible democracy in a one-party system, because all of the politicians you can vote for have to be approved one way or another by the only allowable party. This isn’t complicated, and the fact that you point to Cuban sources and claim that’s all that’s going on is pretty laughable. I could point to Iranian sources and claim that’s not a corrupt state, but it wouldn’t be true.

      Honestly, you sound exactly like one of the trolls described in the OP article, and this is the end of my convo with you. You’re either trolling or as detached from reality as a Trumper.

      • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
        88·
        1 year ago

        Fidel is dead, btw. Who’s the dictator of Cuba? How are laws made in Cuba? What process do they go through?

        Maybe look into things like that before blindly spewing western propaganda.

    • TheTetrapod@lemmy.world
      610·
      1 year ago

      They won’t reply to this. Far too much fact here for them to handwave away, so they probably won’t bother.