Did you read the article? This is a disinformation campaign by a nation state. This is information like literally made-up-for-clicks fake news articles on Facebook is information.
The article doesn't actually claim that - it just says that the accounts were posting using VPNs (which anyone visiting YouTube from China will be) and they appeared to be acting in a co-ordinated manner. I know there was some suggestion in the previous discussion that Twitter etc were likely responding to a campaign by a specific, very large online community of aggressively patriotic Chinese people.
> Sealioning is a type of trolling or harassment which consists of pursuing people with persistent requests for evidence or repeated questions. The harasser who uses this tactic also uses fake civility so as to discredit their target.
Where is the harassment? There was a question asked. No persistence. No repeated questions. You are also assuming the intent to be malicious. What is your goal?
Its "or" harassment. The approach is to generally ask benign seeming questions that are very complex to answer. In the gp if of my comment there is already context and is a reply to something else. Bypassing all of that to ask how the entire thing works is likely a disingenuous attempt at using an asymmetrically simple question asking for a huge answer.
You can choose to feel that way about it. the gp of my reply is pointing to the article, content and thereforce context therein. Not addressing any single part with a question done in the spirit of casting doubt knowing full well how the answer goes is perfectly within the description of sealioning.
