>>feross+(OP)
Story time: Chinese Intranet has changed gradually from "hard" censorship to "soft" methods, posts still get deleted from time to time, but for a broader range of topics, gov't agencies choose to flood the social media with spam posts, mangling with recommenders and messing with sorting options. Technically the gov't didn't delete a thing, but yeah it will be PITA to find useful information and people can not formulate discussions.