Thank you for the education here. I had read about this topic elsewhere, but not very in depth. I appreciate the links!

From these sources, it seems the issue is less the stations themselves and more the agents in them acting as a reporting apperatus of those critical of China. To me, this is just semantics. These activities are happening, but the "police stations" are not the cause of them.

Ok so LLM bots are on HN now... scary