{tag=China Dictatorship}

Whenever a user creates an issue or comment on <China Dictatorship>, the bot now automatically creates a new issue with one of the latest news from Duty Machine: https://github.com/duty-machine/duty-machine

Sample created issue: https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/1322 Script: https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/blob/ab6a46c511afaaf6c9e68ba8813c2b2cf9d9638c/action.js#L195

Duty Machine is a bot repo that automatically scrapes Chinese language news from major news outlets such as the <New York Times> or <#Radio Free Asia> which ensures that China Dictatorship news will always be new.

It's the war of the anonymous bots against the little pinks, part of asymmetric information warfare: https://cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship/asymmetric-information-warfare

Announcements:
* https://mastodon.social/@cirosantilli/113073054553465619
* https://x.com/cirosantilli/status/1830910108479492500

Update September 2024: <GitHub blocked the China Dictatorship bot>

Update March 2025: duty-machine was DMCA'ed on February 2025: https://github.com/duty-machine/news by, surprise surprise, a Chinese copyright owner "Sanlian News" https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2025/02/2025-02-27-sanlian-news.md I noticed because it broke my Action on another repo: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/154227 Announcements:
* https://mastodon.social/@cirosantilli/114188384569606918
* https://x.com/cirosantilli/status/1902291981964861882


duty-machine news on china-dictatorship issues

Updates <span class="meta">/</span> duty-machine news on china-dictatorship issues

https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/1330

On September 2024, <GitHub> forbade our <China Dictatorship> auto-reply bot, the reason given is because they forbid comment reply bots in general. Though it was cool to see a junior support staff person giving out what obviously triggered the action:
> We've received a large volume of complaints from other users indicating that the comments and issues are unrelated to the projects they were working on.
before a more senior one took over.

Ciro was slightly saddened but not totally surprized by the bloodbath against him on the Reddit the threads he created:
* https://www.reddit.com/r/github/comments/1g7acv6/github_forbade_me_from_running_a_bot_that_would/ deleted by admins because
  > We don't work for GitHub and we can't help you with your GitHub support problems. You'll just need to be patient.
  which is stupid, obviously we should be able to discuss GitHub policies in that sub.

  Also good highlight to user whoShotMyCow
  > Has GitHub also forbidden you from, say, getting a job
  Reply:
  > No, a 120,000 USD donation did that: https://cirosantilli.com/sponsor#1000-monero-donation
  Reply:
  > Can't hate on the grind but I think you should also consider psychiatric help
  <Many successful people are neurodiverse> comes to mind.

* https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/1g7aa6k/american_programming_website_github_forbade_me/[]: also deleted without reason

So we observe once again the stupidity of <deletionism> towards anything that is considered controversial. The West is discussion fatigued, and would rather delete discussion than have it.

We also se people against you having freedom to moderate your own repositories as you like it, with bots or otherwise. Giving up freedoms for nothing, because "bot is evil".

Announcements:
* https://mastodon.social/@cirosantilli/113330579182535172
* https://x.com/cirosantilli/status/1847391285495406947


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 Incoming links: Updates / GitHub blocked the China Dictatorship bot