China's hi-tech war on its Muslim minority

[guillaumeb]

From the article:

Most Uighurs in the detention centres are on their way to serving long prison sentences, or to indefinite captivity in a growing network of internment camps, which the Chinese state has described as facilities for “transformation through education”. These camps, which function as medium-security prisons and, in some cases, forced-labour factories, attempt to train Uighurs to disavow their Islamic identity and embrace the secular principles of the Chinese state. They forbid the use of the Uighur language and instead offer drills in Mandarin, the language of China’s Han majority. Only a handful of detainees who are not Chinese citizens have been fully released from this “re-education” system.


In her recent study on the rise of “surveillance capitalism”, the Harvard scholar Shoshana Zuboff notes that consumers are constantly generating valuable data that can be turned into profitable predictions about our preferences and future behaviours. In the Uighur region, this logic has been taken to an extreme. The power – and potential profitability – of the predictive technologies that purport to keep Xinjiang safe derive from their unfettered access to Uighurs’ digital lives and physical movements. From the perspective of China’s security-industrial establishment, the principal purpose of Uighur life is to generate data, which can then be used to further refine these systems of surveillance and control.

To read more:

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/apr/11/china-hi-tech-war-on-muslim-minority-xinjiang-uighurs-surveillance-face-recognition

[guillaumeb]

1. In addition:

Other programmes scan Uighurs’ digital communications, looking for suspect patterns, and flagging religious speech or even a lack of fervour in using Mandarin.

All part of the attempt to eliminate theism from the brave new world that the leaders of the Chinese Government attempt to create.

[trotsky]

2. You are spreading false information again to advance your agenda.

The Chinese government isn't seeking to eliminate theism. There are lots of theists in China. If they wanted to eliminate theism, they'd go after all of them - but they aren't.

What they're seeking to do, which is obvious to any thinking person who doesn't have bullshit agenda to peddle, is to eliminate is any threat to the state. That's why they also arrest atheists who speak out against the government.

I understand why you're desperate to keep portraying China as an "atheists oppressing theists" situation, but the plain and simple facts of the matter don't support that.

[trotsky]

4. Yep.

That screenshot just keeps giving and giving.

He can't stand to have people talking about religious failings in the ONE place on DU where such a discussion is allowed, so we get WHATABOUT CHINA.

[guillaumeb]

5. You sound convinced.

But the facts of this post, and the others in the series refute your analysis.

[trotsky]

6. LOL ok. n/t