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by hkmaxpro 6y ago
TikTok can just continue with their censorship of Tiananmen Square, Tibetan independence, Falun Gong [0], Uighur [1], and Hong Kong protests [2]. Even without this law, their moderators already banned contents “endangering national securit
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Likely singled out > Even while the use of IUDs and sterilization has fallen nationwide, it is rising sharply in Xinjiang. > But while equal on paper, in practice Han Chinese are largely spared the abortions, sterilizations, IUD inser
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by hkmaxpro 6y ago
I don’t think it’s fair to compare China today with Canada almost 50 years ago. A lot of things have changed since then. Boston Marathon didn’t have women’s race until 1972. Our expectations today should be higher.
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In Canada, it’s due to the lack of proper or informed consent, and a class-action lawsuit is trying to correct that. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/forced-sterilization-la... In China, “[t]he population
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by hkmaxpro 6y ago
> The organ harvesting also does not seem to have an ethnic component. You tend to be targeted if you're loudly critical of the government or engage in unwanted religion, your ethnicity does not spare you. If Surgeon Enver Tohti’s t
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by hkmaxpro 6y ago
The paper was posted on March 13 [0], before Covid-19 peaked outside of China. Of course it didn’t focus on other places. The abstract shows the authors believe its findings have relevance elsewhere: > These findings improve our understa
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by hkmaxpro 6y ago
A Nature paper [0] suggests that 66 or even 95 percent of the cases could be avoided, had China acted on the coronavirus 1 to 3 weeks earlier [1]. [0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2293-x [1] https:/
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> The reason why now this has changed - we do need to probably call it a genocide - is quite simply because the evidence now, for the first time, very specifically meets one of the five criteria set forth by the United Nations Convention
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But are Han Chinese sent to concentration camps? > The state regularly subjects minority women to pregnancy checks, and forces intrauterine devices, sterilization and even abortion on hundreds of thousands, the interviews and data show.
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Does China really treat ethnic majority and Uyghurs equally? > Even while the use of IUDs and sterilization has fallen nationwide, it is rising sharply in Xinjiang > The population control measures are backed by mass detention both as
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China suppression of Uighurs meets U.N. definition of genocide, report says(npr.org)
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From Wikipedia on Adrian Schoolcraft: > Both of Schoolcraft's claims were settled in 2015, with him receiving $600,000 for the NYPD portion of the lawsuit At least US has a healthy justice system as the last line of defense. The HK
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by hkmaxpro 6y ago
Planting evidence may mean a few cops are corrupted and lenient punishment isn’t enough. Threat of arrest from Police Chief and repeated bogus charges from Department of Justice to defend police crimes mean a totally broken system. That’s a
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The NYC cops had to resign. Hong Kong cops who gangraped the girl are still at work and may keep harassing others. Their names were also not revealed, so when they switch jobs in the future they will be clean. Anna Chambers wasn’t threatene
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by hkmaxpro 6y ago
Please see my reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23695111
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The parent comment compared the US to HK, so did I. Now I just focus on NYPD: NYPD charged an officer for using a chokehold. [1] No officer was charged in HK after the year long protests for their misconducts and brutality. Side note: Numer
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Maximum penalty is actually death penalty, not just life sentences: [Article 57] […] execution of penalties and other litigation procedures shall be governed by the relevant laws of the Criminal Procedure Law of the People’s Republic of Chi
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> Look at Hong Kong protests, then look at police beating people in cities across the US it’s the same. > What are the concessions from the US government? A few minor police reforms to encourage cops to stop killing minorities on came
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Indeed the currency exchange limit has been going down. Banks use various excuses to forbid currency exchange, even before you hit the personal legal limit of US $50k. A monetary policy maker at the central bank and a supporter capital cont
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If you blindly trust what’s written, then they do look similar. Much like the Constitution of the PRC stating “citizens of the People's Republic of China enjoy freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly, of association, of procession
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DNA sleuths read the coronavirus genome, tracing its origins and mutations(statnews.com)
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Researchers 'Teleport' Data Between Two Chips via Quantum Entanglement(tomshardware.com)
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Intel’s Manufacturing Roadmap from 2019 to 2029(anandtech.com)
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Silicon Valley giants accused of avoiding over $100B in taxes in the last decade(cnbc.com)
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Russia bans sale of gadgets without Russian-made software(bbc.com)
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Well educated ≠ well informed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsWa9fieWSU This interview was in Melbourne, Australia. Many of the interviewees were mainland students in Australia. Not saying your associates and colleagues m
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by hkmaxpro 7y ago
It’s the outrageous penalty that upset Blizzard supporters. Initially announced penalty to Blitzchung: [1] (1) banned from the current tournament (2) forfeit any prize money (approximately US$4,000 by that point) (3) banned from other Grand
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by hkmaxpro 7y ago
> If you step back and think about it, if this protest were to happen in the US, with subways burned, shops destroyed, road blocked, for 6 months. What is going to happen? Compare this hypothetical scenario with what happened in Hong Kon
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> what's happening HK has much more to do with changing economic realities than it does with an evil agenda from the Chinese government First, 93% of protesters were angry due to the lack of universal suffrage. That’s the number one
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American millennials on track to die faster than Gen X, thanks to mental health(businessinsider.com)
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