Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Monday, November 28th, 2022. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, all of the protests erupting in China have not only a definitive tech angle but might also have been triggered

by those lockdowns at that FoxCon factory.

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Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

You might remember I left you last week with news of riots at that FoxCon factory in China.

I'm not exactly saying those riots led to this but you might have seen over the weekend

protests of various sorts have erupted all across China.

Protesters are holding up blank pieces of paper as a protest against censorship leading

platforms and sensors to quickly remove those images but also they're fighting a

rearguard action all across social media.

Researchers say China seems to be flooding Twitter

with porn tweets mentioning places where people are protesting overwhelming

Twitter's reduced moderation team, quoting the Washington Post.

Numerous Chinese language accounts,

some dormant for months or years,

came to life early Sunday

and started spamming the service with links to escort services

and other adult offerings alongside city names. service with Chinese names for the locations would see pages and pages of useless tweets

instead of information about the daring protests as they escalated to

include calls for Communist Party leaders to resign. It is not the first time that suspected

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