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Re:South Dakota first to ban TikTok on state-owned devices by DiogenesKynikos on Friday December 02, 2022 @05:47PM (#33838028)
I recommend going to China and seeing for yourself.

What you read from afar and what you see on the ground are very different. Imagine if all you heard about the US were constant stories about gun violence, drone strikes and homelessness. You'd have a very distorted view of life in America. That's basically the situation with China, if your only point of reference is what you read in the English-language media.

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Re:South Dakota first to ban TikTok on state-owned devices by nradov on Friday December 02, 2022 @06:00PM (#33838138)
Only an idiot would risk traveling to China at this point. You could be detained and held as a political bargaining chip.

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/19/families-biden-admi...

I should have visited China back when it was opening up and relations were relatively friendly. But now that we have entered a new Cold War it's too late, I missed my chance.

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Re:South Dakota first to ban TikTok on state-owned devices by DiogenesKynikos on Friday December 02, 2022 @06:23PM (#33838344)
About 150 million tourists (or shall we call them "idiots"?) travel to China without incident every year.

I don't know what, specially, is happening in the 200 cases described by the Politico article you linked to. Politico mentions one accusation of drug trafficking and another of spying.

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Re:South Dakota first to ban TikTok on state-owned devices by gjsman-1000 on Friday December 02, 2022 @05:54PM (#33838091)
So... do you deny that 1.8 million Muslims are held within "re-education" camps in Xinjang, and claim that I have no need to fear the government even if that be the case, and that the United Nations is pulling it out of their rear with their allegations of forced confessions and torture on a broad systemic scale?

And I'm the one to blame for being paranoid? If you were one of those Muslims, would your paranoia be unjustified?

EDIT: Looking at the few pages of your profile, every single message you have posted is defending China in some capacity, even bending over backwards for certain issues. YOU are making me paranoid and look exactly like the propaganda agents China has hired.

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Re:South Dakota first to ban TikTok on state-owned devices by DiogenesKynikos on Friday December 02, 2022 @06:26PM (#33838373)
I don't know what the subject we were discussing (whether TikTok is part of a plot to dumb down Americans) has to do with Xinjiang.

> every single message you have posted is defending China

I just comment on what interests me at the moment, and because of the rising level of paranoia about China (paranoia which I think is dangerous), I've been commenting more on these sorts of issues - which I happen to know a bit about.

Shill accusations go against HN rules, by the way.

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