1. Why does China, a socialist country, have mega corporations like Tencent and Bytedance? Are they collectively owned by syndicates or unions? If this is a transitionary phase to socialism, can we trust China to actually enforce Socialism after this stage ends?
  2. Child Labor in factories: Myth or Fact? I have a Chinese friend who said he personally never worked as a child in China, but obviously if this was true not every single kid would have worked in a factory.
  3. Surveillance and Social Credit: are these myths, or are they true? Why would China go so far to implement these systems, surely it'd be far too costly and burdensome for whatever they'd gain from that.
  4. Uighur Muslim genocide: Is this true?

Thank you to anyone who answers, and if you do please cite sources so I can look further into China. I really appreciate it.

edit: I was going to ask about Tiananmen Square, but as it turns out that literally just didn't happen. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8555142/Wikileaks-no-bloodshed-inside-Tiananmen-Square-cables-claim.html

https://leohezhao.medium.com/notes-for-30th-anniversary-of-tiananmen-incident-f098ef6efbc2

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/there-was-no-tiananmen-square-massacre/

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      11 months ago

      This ain't it.

      • The surviellance thing is overblown. Facial recognition doesn't work well. It's mostly used to supplement other kinds of investigation. As far as anyone knows China isn't under significantly more surveillance than the US. Notably, the UK is the most intrusively and constantly surveilled population in the world, despite China's reputation. Keep in mind that your position is being tracked in real time with at least 1m accuracy by your cellphone provider, every app that has location permissions, anyone who buys your location data from your cellphone provider and everyone scraping it, and presumably any US government agency that asks politely. And that applies to most people in most places. And then the NSA forks all internet traffic going through the US trunks and reads whatever they can of it. China is probably at a comparative level of surveillance, along with most of the rest of the world where the local government can afford it.

      • The Uighurs didn't anything. Some Islamic terrorists from the Uighur ethnic group engaged in attacks in Xinjiang. Seriously the fuck is this racist shit?

        • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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          11 months ago

          I see. I was thinking of camera's snatching someone's face from a crowd. I was not aware they were using it for access control purposes on a wide scale. One more nightmare to worry about.

          • radiofreeval [any]
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            11 months ago

            There really isn't a model state for privacy & digital rights...

            • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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              11 months ago

              I certainly can't think of one. The current state of universal mass surveillance is horrifying. Everyone wave to our feds!

            • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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              11 months ago

              yea states tend to expand their zones of control and observation thats kind of their thing. there is no natural state of equilibrium to be reached between the state and the individual.