I'd feel differently if this were Chinese citizens of their own free will exercising their inalienable human rights and freedom of expression by making a case to the world, but no, it isn't.
I don't know if there are government sponsored campaigns, but the vast majority of these people are acting spontaneously, you can see people on Weibo sharing how to register western social media and what to do if suspended, there are Baidu Tiebas(similar to Google+) dedicated to these coordinated campaigns with millions of followers.
The reality is the vast majority of China support the CCP, and most of them do not hate the regime.
What’s really interesting is if you go back to 2008-ish, when China hosted the Summer Olympics, the majority of people on Internet were either against the government or VERY against the government.
It is debatable what has caused the sentiment change but I think China’s economic growth over the past decade played a huge part. How the general Chinese people view the Western and their democratic system has changed is another major factor.
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[ 5.0 ms ] story [ 26.2 ms ] threadSame thing happens in the West, except in the West it's usually NGOs instead of governments themselves.
I don't know if there are government sponsored campaigns, but the vast majority of these people are acting spontaneously, you can see people on Weibo sharing how to register western social media and what to do if suspended, there are Baidu Tiebas(similar to Google+) dedicated to these coordinated campaigns with millions of followers.
The reality is the vast majority of China support the CCP, and most of them do not hate the regime.
It is debatable what has caused the sentiment change but I think China’s economic growth over the past decade played a huge part. How the general Chinese people view the Western and their democratic system has changed is another major factor.