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Cant wait for all the anti-cracker-aktion tears this year

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[–] 92 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Dang the Electronic Frontier Foundation is a lot cooler than I thought

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  • [–] 34 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Don't you love a conscientious internet rights org that pushes for Western tech companies to be able to ignore China's internet regulations & allow people to organize pogroms

    https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/chinas-global-reach-surveillance-and-censorship-beyond-great-firewall

    https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/06/30-years-tiananmen-square-state-chinese-censorship-and-digital-surveillance

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Wait what's this about pogroms?

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_2009_Ürümqi_riots

    197 people died 1,721 injured

    That precipitated the "great firewall"

    Also for instance the only thing Meta does to stop Hindutva bastards from organizing lynchings on WhatsApp is turn off forwarding sometimes

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    the great firewall definitely predates that, but thats very interesting history that I didnt know about. the dead roughly 2/3 Han and 1/3 reportedly "moderate"/non-separatist uyghurs. I knew there were incidents but nothing this big

    obscene that there were such strenuous complaints about arrests being made when 200 people were killed in such a short time

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    People also tried to act like the police easily taking down the train station stabbing maniacs was some kind of authoritarian brutality. Gee, that would be nice when we have school shootings. Instead of cops just waiting until they get a high score

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