ToTok, an Emirati messaging app, is the latest escalation of a digital arms race

Re:ToTok, an Emirati messaging app, is the latest escalation... by Ozzie_osman on Monday December 23, 2019 @02:37PM (#21866558)

China has 1.7m prisoners and executes single-digit thousands each year. With those numbers, the fact that it "executes many of its prisoners" is immaterial for its incarceration rate vs the US (maybe those China #s aren't accurate, I can't be sure).

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Re:ToTok, an Emirati messaging app, is the latest escalation... by maxk42 on Monday December 23, 2019 @03:05PM (#21866830)

China also has "re-education camps". The numbers are unknown but the estimate for the Xinjiang re-education camps alone are estimated to hold 1.5 million. [1] So I doubt the 1.7 million number -- or, if accurate, it must discount China's various "re-education" camps and other involuntary political holding facilities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_re-education_camps

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Re:ToTok, an Emirati messaging app, is the latest escalation... by Ozzie_osman on Monday December 23, 2019 @03:53PM (#21867269)

Sure. I'm not defending China or taking these numbers at face value.

But even if the 1.5m in Xinjiang is true, China is still significantly below the US in terms of incarceration rate. And it's sad that that's the comparison we're making.

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Re:ToTok, an Emirati messaging app, is the latest escalation... by SahAssar on Monday December 23, 2019 @07:14PM (#21868734)

I wouldn't trust the china stats either, but looking at a stats like these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarcera... I think it's still clear that USA is a outlier and that this is a problem.

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