Go: The live broadcast queen launched a gorgeous rebellion against the dog

Uesaka Rei's voice had the clear, bright quality typical of a young girl, but at this moment it was filled with anger at being offended!
This article is as targeted as a poisoned dagger, its tip aimed directly at Rui Zhao's push to include Go in the Olympics! It's a blatant declaration of war!
For Uesaka Rei, Rui Zhao's strong push to include Go in the Olympics was exactly what she wanted. She admired the world's number one player even more, and even had a vague feeling that it would be wonderful to follow her captain around as a little tagalong for the rest of her life.

Over the past month, the situation seemed to be very promising—Rui Zhao remained invincible on the field, constantly breaking her winning streak; the public opinion surrounding Go's inclusion in the Olympics continued to rise globally, and the feedback from various national Olympic committees was very positive... Everything was steadily progressing in a bright direction!
But who would have thought that at this seemingly smooth-sailing moment, just as a crucial juncture was about to arrive!

Fox News—a conservative media giant with enormous influence in North America and even globally—has unexpectedly released such a malicious, fact-distorting, and attempt-to-completely deny the value of Go! It's like a thunderclap, abruptly shattering the tranquility of a peaceful day!

However, what chilled Uesaka Rei to the bone and even caused her some faint panic was not the article's biased and malicious tone—she had long been accustomed to the accusations and criticisms from conservative media over the past six months.

What she found truly unacceptable was... the explosive engagement data under the article and the almost unanimous wave of support in the comments section!

This utterly absurd article has received an astonishing number of likes! The number of shares is still skyrocketing! The comment section is overflowing with enthusiastic agreement and praise for the article's viewpoints!
Although there were a few voices that attempted to refute the article's fallacies from a professional perspective, they were like pebbles thrown into a raging sea, instantly swallowed up by a wave of sarcastic and aggressive comments!

[Haha, another one's been brainwashed!]

After all that talk, has anyone actually managed to download AI?

[You're still yelling even though you're not good enough?!]

[The devoted son who plays Go is getting anxious!]

[The Fox News experts are analyzing the issue from an objective perspective! What's the difference between you people who praise Go and those celebrity worshippers who claim their idols are the best in the world?!]

……

Those who disagreed were attacked en masse, labeled as "brainwashed" and "go-playing idiots," and subjected to relentless ridicule and attacks. Their dissenting opinions vanished instantly in the vast ocean of criticism.

The entire comment section has become a veritable carnival for supporters of the "Go is useless" theory! The debate is one-sided and overwhelmingly dominant!

Uesaka Rei unconsciously gripped the edge of the tablet, her knuckles turning slightly white from the force.

She scrolled quickly across the screen, browsing the flood of highly consistent comments, her anger gradually replaced by a deeper, chilling sense of bewilderment and vigilance.

"How come... the wind direction changed so quickly?"

Her delicate brows furrowed tightly, and her clear eyes reflected the rapidly scrolling, menacing text on the screen.

Her voice trailed off, as if she were questioning herself, or confirming some terrifying intuition:

"Everything was going smoothly before, and public opinion was very positive..."

"How come all these people have suddenly appeared, so unreasonable and yet seemingly very well-coordinated?"

"It's like..."

It's like someone is orchestrating it all behind the scenes.

...

...

The following day, in the general manager's office of Jian'an Network Brokerage Company.

Outside the huge floor-to-ceiling windows lies the bustling cityscape of Dongjiang City, bathed in blazing sunlight that reflects blinding white light off the glass curtain walls.

The air conditioning in the office was blasting, but Ai Jian'an felt as if a heavy block of ice was pressing on her heart. She stood by the window, clutching her phone tightly, the screen showing a live call.

The call was quickly connected, and a steady but slightly tired male voice came through the receiver.

"Hello, Xiao Ai?"

"Director Gou!"

Ai Jianan immediately adjusted her tone, her voice carrying just the right amount of respect and a hint of barely perceptible urgency:

"Yes! It's Xiao Ai from my agency, Jian An!"

"I'm so sorry to bother you in your busy schedule!"

"Hmm, it's okay, go ahead."

The director of the chess and card center on the other end of the phone clearly knew why she was calling; his voice was calm, with a kind of composure before a storm.

Ai Jianan took a deep breath and spoke clearly and quickly:
"Director Gou, I wonder if you've been following that column on Fox News recently?"

"Have you noticed... recently a lot of comments have suddenly appeared on both the internal and external networks, making a near-frenzied attempt to slander Go, completely muddying the waters of public opinion!"

As Ai Jianan said.

In the past few days, the entire internet sphere on Earth has been like a deep-water bomb has been dropped on it!
Whether on the internal or external network, on major social media platforms, news comment sections, or even relatively professional Go forums, accounts have sprung up like mushrooms after rain!

Their actions were remarkably consistent, and their rhetoric was astoundingly unified. Their core argument was singular: the complete denial of the value of Go!
They used the most cutting language to deconstruct Go as a "primitive stone game," a "cultural relic with no commercial value," an "intellectual ruin completely cracked by AI," and a "memory competition of rote memorization"...

They launched a fierce attack on the initiative to include Go in the Olympics, smearing it as "cultural opportunism" and "a stain on the Olympic spirit"!
These remarks, like locusts swarming across the land, combined with Fox News' highly inflammatory and "authoritative" manifesto, formed a powerful and extremely destructive torrent of public opinion!

This turbulent current is coming on strong and precisely impacting the public opinion surrounding Go's inclusion in the Olympics, which has been built up over the past few months by Rui Zhao's brilliant achievements and the "she is not an isolated case" social movement!

What was originally a clear and bright future was instantly turned into a murky mess, full of uncertainty!
After a moment of silence on the other end of the phone, Gou Shuci's voice came through again. Without any unnecessary pleasantries or preamble, she went straight to the point:
"You think..."

"There must be a unified organization pushing this behind the scenes, right?"

“Yes! That’s right!” Ai Jianan immediately affirmed without the slightest hesitation:

"The scale, the intensity, the level of coordination... it doesn't look like something spontaneously organized by the public! This is definitely..."

She hesitated for a moment, but still voiced the unspoken guess:

"...Is North America up to something?!"

"Yes, it's pretty much certain."

Gou Shuci's voice was deep and earnest, without the slightest hesitation:

"The network management department has clearly detected traces of organized crime! This includes account clustering, concentrated outbreaks of specific keywords, and abnormal information flow push paths... The technical evidence is conclusive!"
"As for the International Olympic Committee, recently, members who originally supported the inclusion of Go in the Olympics have changed their minds, saying that they need to 'take a longer look into it'."

The North American Olympic Committee directly expressed its firm opposition and even exerted pressure on the International Olympic Committee through various means!
"The technique, the force, the uncouth and forceful attitude..."

"It looks exactly like that old golden retriever's signature style!"

At this point, Gou Shuci paused helplessly, seemingly trying to ease his own feelings of helplessness and surprise:

"Although we had considered the resistance beforehand, we really didn't expect that such a 'small matter' in the sports field could provoke the President to personally intervene! To even use the power of the state apparatus to create such a big obstacle for us!"

"Perhaps... it was the outbreak of the 'She's not an isolated case' social movement that directly caused a sharp drop in the support rate for the North American conservative party, which really hit a nerve and was too much of a shock..."

Upon hearing this, Ai Jianan's fingers tightened slightly as she held her phone, and she fell silent for a moment.

Her own judgment was actually the same as Gou Shuci's, but she knew there was nothing to regret!

It is true that the leftists stirred things up too much, which is why the Blue Star hegemon has taken full action against them.

It's important to know that Go's journey to near inclusion in the Olympics was made possible by the immense voice and influence of liberals worldwide!

Their relationship with the left is one of mutual exploitation to achieve their own goals.

If this matter hadn't stirred up such a huge social wave among liberals, it would have been incredibly difficult for Go to be included in the Olympics based solely on its own influence!
To blame the liberals for provoking the old man now... that really shows a lack of self-awareness!

Meanwhile, Gou Shuci's voice continued from the other end of the phone, carrying a pragmatic tone as he planned the next steps:

"...The current situation is that our cyberspace administration has countermeasures and the ability to effectively suppress and guide these trends that have been stirred up on the domestic internet, and the problem is relatively controllable."

"But the situation on the international online forums... is very bad!"
"The Conservative Party is currently in power in North America, controlling a vast state apparatus and financial resources. The amount of funding they can mobilize far exceeds that of the opposition Liberal Party!"
"The power of public opinion that the United States of North America can mobilize is extremely terrifying! After the big brother in the North suffered a blow back then, the country was basically gone!"

Gou Shuci's voice was low, and one could clearly feel the pressure he was under from the hegemonic media machine:

"And Xiao Ai, you need to know: the trouble we're facing now isn't just caused by the 'dogs' kept by the North American government!"
"Actually, overseas, those leftists have always liked to make outrageous statements! They took advantage of this great opportunity to go all out!"

"As a result, the right-wing people who had been suppressed for half a year found a breakthrough and immediately launched a retaliatory counterattack with all their might, provoked by the current online trends."

"There are even people who have started a petition on the International Olympic Committee's website, demanding that our application to include Go in the Olympics be rejected! The pressure from public opinion is immense!"

At this point, Gou Shuci paused, his tone becoming more serious, with a sincere desire for professional advice:

"Xiao Ai, since you, as a professional, have called, I might as well ask you for advice..."

"Do we have any effective means of rebuttal now?"
"The General Administration is now planning to submit a report to higher authorities, hoping to use the propaganda forces deployed overseas by the state to counter these opinions, but there needs to be a direction for rebuttal!"

"So... I'd like to hear your opinion."

"what……"

Upon hearing Gou Shuci's pointed question, Ai Jian'an subconsciously raised her free hand and scratched her short hair, which had become slightly messy due to neglect.

Her thoughts, as if rewinding, instantly drifted back to more than ten years ago—the darkest moment when OMEGA GO burst onto the scene, sweeping away all the top players in the world with overwhelming force, and trampling the millennia-old wisdom that the Go world was so proud of under its feet.

The overwhelming doubts, ridicule, and disillusionment...

Those claims that "Go is dead" and "human intelligence has been crushed by machines"...

The bewildered, pained, and even self-doubting looks in the eyes of those top chess players...

Scenes flashed clearly through her mind like faded film reels.

Ai Jian'an's brows furrowed slightly, a complex expression on her face—a mixture of helplessness, weariness, and a sense of absurdity, as if history were repeating itself—as she slowly spoke:
"I'll think about it carefully..."

Ai Jian'an's gaze fell upon the sky outside the window, fragmented by the glass curtain wall, as if she could see the invisible yet surging tide of public opinion:

"But this matter... is a bit of a headache."

"Because for the general public, the desire to gain a false sense of superiority by discrediting something they are unfamiliar with or whose value they cannot understand..."

"This is almost a subconscious instinct."

"And this kind of thing happened more than ten years ago, when OMEGA GO burst onto the scene and swept the Go world..."

"I've already seen it once." (End of Chapter)