Palden Yeshi, a Tibetan monk and teacher from eastern Tibet, has reportedly been sentenced to six years in prison by Chinese authorities for teaching the Tibetan language to local children during school holidays, according to a report by the Dharamshala-based independent radio station Voice of Tibet (VoT).
He was a teacher at Karze Monastery in Tehor, Karze County, and was arrested on May 17, 2021, while serving at the monastery. According to sources cited by VoT, Chinese police suddenly arrived at the monastery and detained him without prior notice, forcibly taking him away.
Following his detention, authorities did not provide his family with clear information regarding the reasons for his arrest or the legal basis for the charges against him.
Sources indicate that the primary reason for his detention was his efforts to teach the Tibetan language to more than 300 local children during school holidays. The classes were reportedly organized for young students from nearby communities who wished to learn Tibetan reading and writing. Chinese authorities are believed to have deemed these voluntary language lessons illegal.
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In related news, China bars Tibetan government employees from religious rites and family funerals.
Tibetans employed in government positions have been strictly forbidden from engaging in religious practices. While they are technically allowed to visit major religious sites such as the Jokhang Temple (Tsuglakhang) and the Potala Palace during Losar, their presence is limited to sightseeing purposes only.
They are expressly prohibited from offering prayers, making ritual offerings, performing prostrations, or displaying any other forms of religious devotion. Authorities reportedly warned that such acts would constitute violations of Communist Party discipline.
The restrictions extend into private family life. Government employees are said to be barred not only from participating in public religious ceremonies but also from attending last rites, weekly memorial prayer services, and cremation rituals for their own deceased relatives. A Lhasa resident told TT that even the traditional seventh-day prayers for the departed cannot be attended by those in state employment.
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I just read more about it, specifically here: https://thechinaproject.com/2022/02/03/how-chinas-laws-and-social-credit-system-actually-work-explained-by-jeremy-daum/ from 2022, and it seems at the time there were pilot projects to do something like a real social credit score system.
So, most of the information going into it is what they call public credit information, which is information created or collected by the government in the course of its normal business. So that’s to say that the creation of the idea of the Social Credit System didn’t involve collecting much more information.
What it did involve was sharing information between regulatory agencies, and they’re now making it so that if you violated say a food safety law… In the past, you might… The food safety regulators would know that that had happened, but it’s now available for the public to see in most cases. And also, other regulatory agencies will see this.
What I strongly disagree with though is the dramatized and biased view your video approaches the topic with. Analyzing these things should be sober, not like that. I couldn't watch past the first few seconds. "Do we have no privacy? (in response to filming themselves for a year) We don't have any anyway (to point out the evil state monitoring their every move)"
OP is just doing their job as an anti-China power poster.
And you do your job spreading anti-western and tankie propaganda, get off your high horse.
Watch the documentary. Each individual gets a score, and this score changes depending on your behaviour and the everyday decision you make - what you drink you buy, what food you eat. Whatever the party deems as desired or undesired behaviour, the score is increased or decreased.
I will probably do that. But do you realize that the first app she opens isn't from the state? It's sesame credit from alibaba/alipay. It's a private bonus credit thing/loyalty program from a private company. It has nothing to do with the state. If you go on a shopping spree in their apps then your credit rises and you may get a few gifts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhima_Credit
Dude, each single app she has on her phone is from a private company. The state doesn't even have an app, and it doesn't need one.
To paraphrase what the documentary says: The private companies are creating the apps, but the Chinese party-state makes the recipes. And the state has access to every single piece of information. The state decides what happens with the data, and what 'features' are added. The party gets what it wants.
That's what the documentary explains explicitly.
It's an Orwellian nightmare.
I see
You just had a conversation with an account that specializes in western propaganda against China and Russia, the two big adversaries of the USA.
@Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.org as well as several other accounts do exactly that, by only posting explicitly anti-China and anti-Russia articles, often from the most obscure sources. Daily.
As with this post, it‘s US propaganda and financed by the CIA run Voice of Tibet as outlined here.
Previously: 3½ years of anti-China & anti-Russia news posts by several similar Lemmy accounts
You cant even accurately track this much data without sensors, cameras, and APIs shoved into literally every corner of everywhere. This is impossible to do based on a general "every action."
Watch the documentary. The state observes any move you make.
They dont have any cameras or devices in their house we dont have.
life is gonna get so hard for sinophobic fash like you going forward, and I'm here for it