Millions of Leaked Police Files Detail Suffocating Surveillance of China’s Uyghur Minority
theintercept.com
Invasive digital monitoring and community informants drive a system all too ready to classify Muslims in Ürümqi as extremists and terrorists.

I genuinely went to read this in good faith since it's The Intercept (I know it's not great, but it's not CNN) but decided to do a quick text search for Zenz just to make sure. And of course, the whole fucking thing is full of Zenz.

This is just ridiculous at this point. I really don't want to be a genocide-denier if there is actually one happening, but for fuck's sake this is just ridiculous, LET ME SEE ONE REPORT ON THIS WITHOUT ZENZ ALL OVER IT.

    • MalarkeyDetected [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      I've always felt that Byler was a little sus. Darren Byler is a fellow at Center for Asian Studies and China Made and writes for China Channel which are all financially supported by the Henry Luce Foundation which funds anticommunist organizations like the Atlantic Council (a NATO cutout), the Asia Foundation (was heavily funded and originally established by the CIA), and the Council on Foreign Relations. The Henry Luce Foundation was established by the vehemently anticommunist media tycoon Henry R. Luce.

      Rushan Abbas also boasted of her “extensive experience working with US government agencies, including Homeland Security, Department of Defense, Department of State, and various US intelligence agencies.” Abbas was a National Endowment for Democracy (a CIA cutout) grantee and worked for Radio Free Asia.

    • gammison [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      I hate to nitpick, but I don't see anything wrong with what Byler did in that tweet. The original tweet accused her of helping run Guantanamo, which is blatantly not true.

      • Straight_Depth [they/them]
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        4 years ago

        I cannot imagine what anyone would do working at Guantanamo that did not involve torture or collaborating with torturers to extract confessions under duress while the torture was happening and translate it.

        • gammison [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          Yeah he knee jerks like that too often then has to clarify (I mean in that Zha thread he effectively says he doesn't believe her on on the treatment of the detainees in GITMO). Guy is extremely emotionally involved in the whole thing because he lived there for years. I'm most familiar just with his PhD thesis which is very good.