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China Is Burning Books Again
- the_fonz 8y agoThat's the least concern of China's Orwellian-Kafkaesque authoritarian nightmare: Seizing land arbitrarily - https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-january-20-2016-1.3411477/china-s-government-land-grabs-fuel-unrest-with-farmers-villagers-1.3411595 https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-january-... Widespread censorship, blocking, monitoring and effectively a separate internet - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Firewall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Firewall Roughly 400 million CCTV cameras and AI stalking and surveilling of persons in public - https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/china-surveillance-camera-big-brother_us_5a2ff4dfe4b01598ac484acc https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/china-surveillance-came... Arbitrary, secret "social credit" system that creates a socioeconomic apartheid by limiting modes of travel and branding people as untouchable - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System Forced dislocations and disappearances of Uyghurs and others to many enormous concentration camps visible from satellites - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-01/satellite-images-expose-chinas-network-of-re-education-camps/10432924 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-01/satellite-images-expo... Organ transplants with an impossibly short waiting time that imply on-demand executions and forced organ harvesting - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/07/china-still-using-executed-prisoners-organs-transplants-vatican https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/07/china-still-us...