According to @CDT, local authorities in #Xinjiang's Yili issued a directive, encouraging internet commentary personnel to "open a campaign of comment flooding" the topic of local residents calling for help amid serious deprivation of food and resources.chinadigitaltimes.net/2022/09/minitr…
"All internet commentary organizational work units must carry out comment flooding work at the relevant times, and must not finish it behind or ahead of schedule. The time period in question is from 8 pm to 10 pm tonight!"
"Comment flooding must be carried out in accordance with procedure. At the same time, take steps to protect yourself, and do not touch on the pandemic situation, pandemic volunteers, pandemic prevention policies, etc."
"There are no subject matter restrictions. Content may include domestic life, daily parenting, cooking, or personal moods. All internet commentary personnel should post once per hour (twice in total), but not in rapid succession! Repeat: not in rapid succession!"
"On WeChat, censors struck down essays describing the harrowing chaos of the lockdown: expectant mothers denied essential medical care, feverish children barred from hospitals, an elderly man suffering a cerebral hemorrhage turned away from the ICU,...
... disabled adults left unattended, and students’ educations interrupted."
"Despite censorship and residents’ fears of speaking out, there has been an explosion of Weibo posts about Yili’s lockdown over the past few days.
A now-censored accounting of those posts documented how a hashtag related to the Yili COVID outbreak appeared at one point in over 100 new posts per minute."
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