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@@ -2574,7 +2574,7 @@ If the user keeps generating notifications, warning + temporary block as per lin
 
 If initial post is outright useless and offensive, direct user block, with a link to the link:CONTRIBUTING.md[].
 
-For outbursts of activity from Chinese websites, usually programming (v2ex, hacpai, pingcong), only post the following canned answer and nothing else, because cowards/people who don't know English from the website might delete your posts, so you shouldn't waste time there with that shit:
+For outbursts of activity from Chinese websites, usually programming (<<backlinks,v2ex, hacpai, pingcong>>), only post the following canned answer and nothing else, because cowards/people who don't know English from the website might delete your posts, so you shouldn't waste time there with that shit:
 
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 大家你好
@@ -3183,6 +3183,9 @@ OK, maybe the fact that 69M of those were likely old ladies didn't help much eit
 Let's try to gather some well sourced footage showing huge numbers of believers on the streets:
 
 * https://www.aparchive.com/search?query=falun%20gong&from=1&orderBy=OldestFirst#7e34a6 AP Archive: could not find a good one there
+* rehashes of Falun Gong propaganda videos with good footage:
+** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7cz4Tkbwy8 contains old good footage
+** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDRUp50XkSs Chinese with English subs, above is rehashed from this one most likely
 
 .Thousands of Falun Gong practitioners in Guangzhou, China, 1998. https://www.theepochtimes.com/finding-the-balance-between-ancient-and-modern_2248694.html[Source].
 image::https://web.archive.org/web/20200315112422if_/https://img.theepochtimes.com/assets/uploads/2017/05/10/GuangzhouPractice_big-700x420.jpg[height=600]
@@ -3807,6 +3810,14 @@ In both cases, some believers claim that sometimes even reading the same text ag
 * other dimensions, which some select people with vision superpowers can see
 * aliens that look like humans are amongst us, they gave us part of our modern technology, some are evil, others not so evil
 * meetings in which people tell their religious testimonies ("experience sharing" TODO Chinese name, possibly just "分享修炼的美好", e.g. https://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2015/9/29/分享修炼的美好-印尼召开修炼心得交流会（图）-316838.html[source]): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testimony#Religion
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+As Jesus put it in Matthew 18:20:
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+____
+For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them
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+which highlights the critical believer mass effect of reinforced beliefs.
 * an impending link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Judgment[final judgment]-like event, which will happen "very soon" (<<flg-verifiable,unspecified date>>), and in which the just will be rewarded
 +
 I predict that when <<li-hongzhi>> dies, the claim will be that he went to another dimension so save us all, therefore putting this final judgment on hold, a bit like Jesus.
@@ -4021,6 +4032,8 @@ Someone should write a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Temptation_of_Chri
 
 This deserves an American miniseries like Chernobyl.
 
+It would manage to piss off both FLG and the CCP, which would be amazing. It is a shame that it is so difficult to find good historical information between the infinite barrages of CCP and FLG propaganda.
+
 It could show how:
 
 * Li was an ordinary dude who could liked to play the trumpet, which partially explains his focus on <<falun-gong-media,Shen Yun>> and Falun Gong musical street parades
@@ -4035,15 +4048,13 @@ It could show how:
 Episodes could be split along:
 
 * Episode 1: pre Qi Gong, shows Childhood, workplaces, early motivations. Ends with first contact with a Qi Gong lesson
-* Episode 2: early Falun Gong. Opens an academy. Starts without metaphysics, but grows into it. Show him knowingly lying. The first followers, and top lieutenants. Makes some management mistake. Could end in a metaphysical scene.
+* Episode 2: early Falun Gong. Opens an academy. Starts without metaphysics, but grows into it. Show him knowingly lying, but also seething magic things. The first followers, and top lieutenants. Makes some management mistake, but escapes. Could end in a metaphysical scene, or 13 May 1992 initial public lesson.
 * Episode 3: later Falun Gong in China. It grows, show in Chinese news. Power struggles, problems with early lieutenants, and new lieutenants come up. Many people practice on streets. Battle against <<zhong-gong>>.
 * Episode 4: preaching outside of China and emigration. Crackdown. International Falun Gong media.
 
 The series could be filmed in Taiwan maybe?
 
-It would manage to piss off both FLG and the CCP, which would be amazing. It is a shame that it is so difficult to find good historical information between the infinite barrages of CCP and FLG propaganda.
+Source material: <<neutral-books-about-falun-gongs-history>>.
-
-Source material: <<neutral-books-about-falun-gong>>.
 
 [[flg-telemarketing]]
 ===== Some Falun Gong people make phone telemarketing
@@ -4108,18 +4119,36 @@ image::http://web.archive.org/web/20200513103231im_/http://file.chinacourt.org/f
 .Hungarian Falun Gong propaganda image with woman meditating in with blue sky background for comparison with <<zhong-gong-blue,similar Zhong Gong imagery>>. https://hu.faluninfo.eu/[Source].
 image::https://web.archive.org/web/20181009052816if_/http://hu.faluninfo.eu//images/201709/slide01-hu.jpg[height=400]
 
+[[qigong-fever]]
+===== Qigong fever Boom 气功热 (1980's)
+
+https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qigong_fever
+
+AKA Qigong Boom.
+
+* https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/26268612 特异功能、法功灭火、铝锅传功……80年代的气功热究竟有多疯狂？ How crazy was the Qi Gong boom after all?
+
 ==== Falun Gong bibliography
 
 * https://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-Chinese-government-against-Falun-Gong
 * https://www.zhihu.com/question/23988890 at <<zhihu>>
 * https://www.orange-papers further developed at: <<flg-cult>>
 
-===== Neutral books about Falun Gong
+===== Neutral books about Falun Gong's history
 
 A few non-religious non-CCP resources can be found at:
 
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Falun_Gong
 
+Some key events:
+
+* 1989: initial private beta courses. TODO key interesting moment.
+* 1992-05-13: initial public lecture at the 1992 International Health Exposition in Beijing, and opening main academy on No. 5 MIddle School in Changchun, Jilin Province (capital.
++
+TODO what did he talk about on that Beijing day. This day still celebrated in 2020 as https://en.minghui.org/cc/36/["Falun Dafa Day"], in which the major international "<<orange-papers,Experience Sharing>> Conference" happens in New York.
++
+He apparently also taught at Chaoyang Park in Changchun: https://goo.gl/maps/BFwKs2xr48AMUAbx8
+
 [[politicians]]
 == Chinese politicians 中国政治家
 
@@ -4858,12 +4887,19 @@ From <<falun-gong>>:
 ** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuidang_movement
 * http://dongtaiwang.com
 ** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freegate
-* https://twitter.com/jenniferatntd Jennifer Zeng 曾錚
-** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Zeng
 * https://hongzhi.li/ nice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_hack[domain hack]
 * https://www.qi-gong.me/
 * http://www.zhengjian.org/
 
+[[jennifer-zeng]]
+===== Jennifer Zeng 曾錚
+
+* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Zeng
+
+https://twitter.com/jenniferatntd
+
+2005 book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Witnessing-History-Womans-Fight-Freedom/dp/1741144000
+
 [[bannedbook-org]]
 ===== bannedbook.org 禁闻网
 
@@ -5207,7 +5243,7 @@ image::https://web.archive.org/web/20190915124441im_/https://www.rfa.org/mandari
 .<<nazi,Nazis>> burning books in Berlin in 1933. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_book_burnings[Source].
 image::https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/1933-may-10-berlin-book-burning.JPG/603px-1933-may-10-berlin-book-burning.JPG[height=400]
 
-.<<falun-gong>> books being destroyed with a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_roller[road roller] in 1999 in China in an extremely low quality early Internet image. How far do you think mass jailings and torture would be? One wonders why they didn't burn the books though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Destruction_d'ouvrages_du_Falun_Gong_lors_de_la_répression_de_1999_en_Chine.jpg[Source].
+.<<falun-gong>> books being destroyed with a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_roller[road roller] in 1999 in China in an extremely low quality early Internet still of a video TODO Ciro saw a 3s sequence in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7cz4Tkbwy8[], find timestamp again. How far do you think mass jailings and torture would be? One wonders why they didn't burn the books though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Destruction_d'ouvrages_du_Falun_Gong_lors_de_la_répression_de_1999_en_Chine.jpg[Source].
 image::https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/Destruction_d'ouvrages_du_Falun_Gong_lors_de_la_répression_de_1999_en_Chine.jpg[height=400]
 
 ==== China has more freedom of speech than the USA!
@@ -5233,6 +5269,7 @@ See also <<ciro-santilli>>'s answer to https://www.quora.com/What-would-happen-i
 Some cases where that didn't end well for them:
 
 * 2017 Li Xiaoling (李小玲) was arrested and released "on bail" for wearing a <<tiananmen,Tiananmen>> T-shirt: https://www.nchrd.org/2017/10/li-xiaoling/
+* 2000 https://en.minghui.org/emh/articles/2000/11/8/6250.html Autralian Zhang Cuiying went to China to protest against Falun Gong oppression: https://youtu.be/v7cz4Tkbwy8?t=4036 TODO chinese name. TODO non Falun Gong coverage.
 * 1989 <<pu-zhiqiang-shirt,Pu Zhiqiang (浦志强) freedom of speech shirt>> during <<tiananmen>>
 
 .In 2016 activist Quan Ping (Kwon Pyong,权平,https://twitter.com/kwonpyong[BraveJohnny]) was sent to jail for wearing a <<nazi,Xitler>>/<<xi-jinping-memes,習包子/大撒币>> t-shirt in public and posting selfies online. This photo is in front of a Government building (TODO exact location, reports say he is from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jilin_City[Jilin City 吉林] transcription of the sign on top of building: 诚信立市 https://baike.baidu.com/item/工业强市[工业强市] 依法治...) https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/16/world/asia/china-xi-jinping-xitler-tshirt-kwon-pyong.html[New York Times coverage]. He was later sentenced and served 18 months in prison because of this: https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/profile/kwon-pyong[Front Line Defenders profile]. https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/xi-jinping-tshirt-activist-confirmed-held-in-northeast-china-detention-center-12082016110338.html[Source].
@@ -5531,7 +5568,7 @@ Strategies for dealing with Wumao:
 
 Bibliography:
 
-* 2020-03-12 https://twitter.com/jenniferatntd/status/1238076579466674178 Jennifer Zeng's 曾錚 publishing of purported Wumao guidelines with translation. Translated title: "CAC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberspace_Administration_of_China[Cyberspace Administration of China]) Internal Documentation for Internet Commentators (no spreading)"
+* 2020-03-12 https://twitter.com/jenniferatntd/status/1238076579466674178 <<jennifer-zeng>>'s publishing of purported Wumao guidelines with translation. Translated title: "CAC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberspace_Administration_of_China[Cyberspace Administration of China]) Internal Documentation for Internet Commentators (no spreading)"
 * 2018-09-27 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCnnPf2OnHo "Chinese Internet Trolls Get Paid 50 Cents For Every Comment" by <<serpentza-laowhy86,laowhy86>>
 * 2017-04-09 https://gking.harvard.edu/files/gking/files/50c.pdf "How the Chinese Government Fabricates Social Media Posts for Strategic Distraction, not Engaged Argument" by "Gary King, Jennifer Pan, Margaret E. Roberts"
 * https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/files-05202015150018.html
@@ -5704,11 +5741,19 @@ For Zhihu backlinks, see: <<zhihu-questions-related-to-ciro-santilli>>.
 * 2018-03-11: got a large traffic peak (60 vs 10 average), but no linkbacks to match. Likely source: parcerier pinged me at: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/267715/is-stack-overflow-accessible-in-china/267723#comment562812_288497 and I revamped the and FAQ replied with https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/267715/is-stack-overflow-accessible-in-china/267723#comment562840_320914 Someone also made: https://archive.is/jcZCA which points to: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/267715/is-stack-overflow-accessible-in-china/267723#comment562810_267723 . This issue was opened that day as well: https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/12
 * 2018-01: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1088&context=cs_etds this site appears on the reference of a PhD thesis paper haha, links to complete-gfw-rulebook-for-wikipedia-v3.0.pdf.
 * 2017-05: https://t.co/AosRq06akz TODO where from. "Measuring Decentralization of Chinese Censorship in Three Industry Segments" by Jeffrey Knockel. Now at Citizenlab: https://www.cs.unm.edu/~jeffk/
-* 2015-12-23: https://v2ex.com/t/245507 (link:https://github.com/cirosantilli/media/blob/9f7b07e915c4638d45a1b4922ba95c61e2ef87dc/webpages/v2ex-2015-12.html[Chromium CTRL-S save]) "搜 StackOverflow，无意间发现了这个，重点在那个评论" by https://v2ex.com/member/happypy1
 * 2015-09-03: (deleted) http://www.weibo.com/2014703917/Cyc1gFt7A This is the user: http://www.weibo.com/2014703917 There have also been accesses from link:http://weibo.cn/sinaurl[], but I don't know what that means.
 * 2015-08-03: 21 visitor Facebook peak, can't find the source
 * 2015-06-20: (deleted) link:https://www.plurk.com/p/l1jjn4[] Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20150918110032/https://www.plurk.com/p/l1jjn4 "這阿豆阿的名字XDD" by https://www.plurk.com/m/u/cyuanXD
 * 2015-05-30: <<zhou-fengsuo>> linked to <<ciro-santilli>>'s stack overflow account!!!
+
+=== V2EX
+
+https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/V2EX
+
+Anything goes forum, but largely programmer dominated. Had <<icp-license>> in 2016, but lost it in 2019 to move servers back to USA, so shady.
+
+* 2015-12-23: https://v2ex.com/t/245507 (link:https://github.com/cirosantilli/media/blob/9f7b07e915c4638d45a1b4922ba95c61e2ef87dc/webpages/v2ex-2015-12.html[Chromium CTRL-S save]) "搜 StackOverflow，无意间发现了这个，重点在那个评论" by https://v2ex.com/member/happypy1
+* http://v2ex.com/t/214015 TODO restricted without mobile phone confirmation, while most other threads still work. So they must have some kind of restricted posts.
 * 2015-04-10: https://v2ex.com/t/182766 (cannot archive, login requires CAPTCHA, link:https://github.com/cirosantilli/media/blob/9f7b07e915c4638d45a1b4922ba95c61e2ef87dc/webpages/v2ex-2015-04.html[Chromium CTRL-S save]) "Stack Overflow 上看到一个丧心病狂的程序员" by https://v2ex.com/member/cloudhunter
 
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