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Re:Chinese mass-indoctrination camps evoke Cultural Revolution by Lionsion on Thursday May 17, 2018 @12:09PM (#17092565)
> Ineligibility for universities for opaque reasons happens in the west too. So does unaccountable public shaming - I don't think it being done manually rather than automatically makes it better. Knowing what information companies have on you doesn't actually help any - it means you know the inputs to their model, but not how they relate to the output.

In the West, are those things engineered by the government on a mass scale to coerce political support for the regime and silence dissent?

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Re:Chinese mass-indoctrination camps evoke Cultural Revolution by lmm on Thursday May 17, 2018 @12:15PM (#17092635)
No, on the whole. There is no grand conspiracy, just a lot of people looking for a quiet life, avoiding rocking the boat, and slightly favouring people like themselves. But the end result is almost the same.
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