Totalitarian determination and modern technology have produced a massive abuse of human rights
https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1002598573316247552 China: universal surveillance and social control America: cool gadgets and staggering inequality Russia: shadowy plots, covert ops, and assasins Japan: JapanThe cool thing about cyberpunk coming true is that we got ALL the cyberpunk futures.
Scary stuff. I had seen the earlier AP Report on the same region--its interviews with former detainees are shocking. These policies, combined with China's growing foreign influence and Xi's nearly dictator-for-life status, have me worried for the future of the region.
If anyone wants to read more on this, Gerry Shih wrote a series of articles in Dec of last year on the presence of these camps and the backlash that sends some Uyghurs into extremist groups that commit acts of terrorism or seek asylum in ISIS-held territory. Chinese mass-indoctrination camps evoke Cultural Revolution China’s Uighurs grapple with pull of extremism In western China, thought police instill fearThe detainees had to criticize and be criticized by their peers. One by one, they would also stand up before 60 classmates to present self-criticisms of their religious history.
Very Cultural RevolutionA Turkey-based TV station run by Xinjiang exiles said almost 900,000 were detained, citing leaked government documents.
900,000 people in "re-education camps"