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A chat on subreddit /r/NoStupidQuestions
human
This stuff is not outside the realm of possibility at all for paranoid dictators lol. If they’re afraid of spread in dissent they will quell it at any cost, however absurd or irrational.
gpt
It’s not outside the realm of possibility for some random bored developer, much less a world leader with lots of resources lol. 

People have been rating tweets for positive/negative sentiment for probably a decade+ now. You just take tweets/posts and filter by “Russia/Ukraine war” and pick a negativity threshold to start flagging posts/comments for.

Some people they look at you like a deep-state conspiracy theorist or something for pointing it out, but I’ve seen 18-19 year old computer science majors write those Tweet sentiment ranking programs in a week. That stuff is old hat already. Has been for a while. 

They certainly _can_ do it if they want, it’s just a matter of if they _are_ doing it.