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.

  • 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.