Photo by Ng Han Guan: Yang Guoliang shows a March 12, 2024, photo of him lying in a hospital bed after police beat him with bricks, as he sits in his home in Changzhou in eastern China’s Jiangsu Province, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2025
Part of the AP’s photo essay: Those caught in the dragnet of China’s digital cage enabled by U.S. tech
More information available in accompanying article: US tech companies enabled the surveillance and detention of hundreds of thousands in China
I had to reread the title six times in order to parse it.
It’s an image within an image of a man taking an image of the police officer setting up a police surveillance camera by his hospital bed after putting him there. Kinda meta
I tried changing the title but idk if that’s better or worse or if it really matters. In summary: We’re all fucked if we don’t stop the global oligarchs.
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.ml critically supports the police here.
“critical” support. LOL.
If they had the decency to admit the horrors when they happened I might take the tankies a little more seriously. But most of them are in constant apologia and denial mode.
“Yeah, but look at America!”
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I’m pretty sure some of the tankies are genuinely paid troll. The level of gymnastics, spins and gaslighting they make is something that a trained PR person is proficient at. I noticed this way back in Reddit.
Don’t you know that PRC is the most democratic country in the world ?!? People are totally free to express themselves! PRC is a beacon of light showing us the way to total respect of human rights and diversity!!!
Kinda off topic but not really because also a “pic”
I used to always watch and throw in coins to trigger the trains on this exact model train display at this train station.
Its so surreal to see it in an english AP article about Uyghur refugees.“Because of this technology … we have no freedom at all, sooner or later, Americans and others, too, will lose their freedoms.”
Its not much longer now yep. The US is already at this point. The UK is almost all the way there too.
People are already being arrested in the UK for having subversive opinions and protesting
And we knew that shit was happening there, just didn’t have confirmation it was Larry Fucking Ellison and Bill Gates enabling it.
And since it was onebigassholenamedlarryellison et.al. to me that means it’s already here in the west, we just don’t have confirmation yet.
I try to share this whenever I can
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/05/19/live-facial-recognition-police-new-orleans/
Police have allegedly stopped using it bc they were in violation of city law. The private company that is
definitely relatedcompletely unrelated to Palantir continues to use them and the police are pushing for a new ordinance which would allow them to legally keep using them while claiming this is no different than any other surveillance in the U.S.Except it’s the first of its kind in the U.S. real time tracking and monitoring network surveillance system using facial recognition tech. It notifies police of your movements in realtime. The cameras are everywhere and inescapable.
Our roads are crumbling, we have a boil water advisory every other week, and parts of the city still flood every time it rains hard.
Explain to me why we can’t have those issues fixed, but we have the privilege of being the first city to adopt and test out this system. Especially after we had the privilege of being one of the first cities Palantir secretly tested their predictive policing tech.
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This stuff gets even less attention in China. State censorship is even stronger there.
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“Man complains about ‘excessive monitoring’ after vicious assult on police who were forced to use bricks as improved weapons to protect themselves after being defunded”
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This is the place a segment of America wants us to be more like. Funny enough, many of them don’t even realize they’re pushing us full-steam towards a China-esque police state. (We’ve gotten damn close on our own, but it’s still not the absolute totality of China’s system…yet.)
Oh no no no, what are you doing? You’re going to upset the tankies, won’t anyone think about the tankies?
You know perfectly well that China and it’s government can do no wrong, ever, they give flowers to everyone all day every day and they make sure that everyone in China is free and accompanied by a care bear just in case.
newbie here
do tankies support police brutality in china?
or (and I’m sorry) what was the point of your comment?
Tankies, by definition, will support China and Russia without a single atom of discernment. Cherry picking whatever “facts” goes their way and dismissing any contradiction as “western propaganda” or just telling you you are a matrixed liberal minded retard.
It’s best to only respond to them in Russian or Mandarin, because funny enough, they can’t speak a single word of these languages.
Why though?
My opinion: they are fanatics, there is no logic to it beyond just the feeling to belonging to a group, a counter-culture of sort. It’s not different from Facebook flatearthers, just a different fixation.
Tankies have a lot of reach here on Lemmy because the main developer is one of them and he also is the admin of lemmy.ml, which is one of the biggest and oldest Lemmy instance (server) with many active users and communities.
Got it - thanks for the detailed response. No one’s ever explained it in a way that made sense before. Appreciate it. I’m the owner of my instance, let me know if you ever need anything
The US of A is probably 6 to 12 months from this.
I like your optimism.
