China: Phone Search Program Tramples Uyghur Rights
www.hrw.org
Police in the Xinjiang region of China rely on a master list of 50,000 multimedia files they deem “violent and terrorist” to flag Uyghur and other Turkic Muslim residents for interrogation. An investigation found that over nine months, police conducted nearly 11 million searches of a total of 1.2 million mobile phones in Urumqi, Xinjiang’s capital city of 3.5 million residents.

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  • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I haven't even read the whole thing yet. What I am saying is that we shouldn't simply accept its characterizations uncritically. Is media criticism such a wild idea?

      • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        You're just assuming bias because it's more convenient for you. When something makes strong claims, you must hold it to high standards.

        Even if you were right and I only exercise basic media literacy for sources critical of China, that would not make my criticisms of those sources incorrect. It would make my defense of other sources incorrect.

        You are literally arguing that we shouldn't criticize something that could plainly be atrocity propaganda because maybe we don't criticize if Für Elise is replicating German chauvinism. It's a joke of an argument.

          • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            Again you are begging the question wrt the accuracy of the report. Furthermore, what you actually said was:

            Okay then do that for every single piece of media about anything, I think you only want to do it for things that you disagree with though

            Emphasis:

            do that for every single piece of media about anything

            You are free to disavow this argument, but it's the one you made.