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submitted 3 months ago by Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.org to c/world@quokk.au

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/42071793

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China runs the largest digital surveillance apparatus on earth.

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Many in China hardly notice the country’s millions of cameras. But for the tens of thousands under watch, it’s an invisible digital cage, tracking and restricting their movement.

Among them are the Yang family, living in rural eastern Jiangsu province. Caught in a land dispute, they’ve been trying to seek relief from local officials by appealing to China’s central government in Beijing. But this surveillance apparatus based on American technology monitors and predicts their every move, flagging them for detention every time they try to go to the Chinese capital.

Yang Guoliang lives alone, a virtual prisoner in his own house. His wife and younger daughter were arrested last year and now face trial for disrupting the work of the Chinese state — a crime carrying a sentence of up to a decade in prison.

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[-] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

You appear to permanently (and rightfully) criticizing the US, but ignore or at least play down China's atrocities.

Provide evidence I am ignoring or downplaying China's atrocities or don't casually make the claim.

On the contrary I am putting the context of what drives this authoritarianism into center view with regards to how my part of the world impacts it.

[-] Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 months ago
[-] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 months ago
[-] doben@lemmy.wtf 2 points 3 months ago

You must understand that you are argueing with a (likely) paid western propagandist, eerily similar to accounts paid to do hasbara for Israel. 

While they claim, that you criticise the US, but let China (could be Russia, too) off the hook („do you also criticise China, like „do you condemn hamas“), they are the one initiating the China critique, while ignoring every ounce of responsibility of the worlds hegemon, the USA.

You won‘t get an honest or balanced or well informed take from @hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.org, but only one of extreme western bias and smear against the west‘s current main adversaries, Russia and China.

It‘s all they do, that‘s the sole purpose of the account.

[-] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yeah it is just embarassing how obvious it is, I have no interest in defending another empire, my point is how useless the one note warhawk mentality/analysis is.

Rightwing people have been telling me to be afraid of commie red China my whole life because they hate freedom and wait... this whole time rightwing US authoritarian surveillance capitalist companies have been selling China the necessary infrastructure of oppression to make this vision a reality?

I ask, as a USian, who should I actually be concerned with as a threat?

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