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Re:To do politics or not do politics? Tech startups are divided by dash2 on Monday November 23, 2020 @01:19AM (#25184076)
Is there evidence for that forced sterilisation claim? I found this Guardian story but it only details an allegation, which hardly cuts it for such a serious crime: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/17/ice-hy...

I must admit it sounds like the stuff of paranoid fantasy.

Update: this from Channel 4 seems reasonably calm and balance. I had to hunt through a lot of clickbaity headlines to find it: https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-were-mass-...

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Re:To do politics or not do politics? Tech startups are divided by krageon on Monday November 23, 2020 @07:00AM (#25185803)
> I must admit it sounds like the stuff of paranoid fantasy.

For a country with a documented history of disrespect for bodily autonomy it seems entirely in line with expected behaviour to me.

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Re:To do politics or not do politics? Tech startups are divided by nagaiaida on Monday November 23, 2020 @01:47PM (#25190117)
Does it not?

>Over the six-year period that had followed the passage of the Family Planning Services and Population Research Act of 1970, physicians sterilized perhaps 25% of Native American women of childbearing age, and there is evidence suggesting that the numbers were actually even higher.

https://time.com/5737080/native-american-sterilization-histo...

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Re:To do politics or not do politics? Tech startups are divided by boogies on Monday November 23, 2020 @10:52AM (#25188021)
Sounds like China to me https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_genocide#Compulsory_ste...
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