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China warned others not to attend UN meeting on Xinjiang human rights violations

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Re: China warned others not to attend UN meeting on Xinjiang human rights violations

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A painful but important reminder about Lu Guang, a photojournalist captured by the goverment for taking photos of the damage suffered by countryman (and nature) due pollution from chinese factories: https://imgur.com/gallery/XwzByK7

Something needs to be done, I'm not sure what but inaction will only aggravate the situation.

Re: China warned others not to attend UN meeting on Xinjiang human rights violations

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I'm wondering if people in China can see this website in Google. Edit: to people who are downvoting this... check this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19540562

People aren't downvoting this within 7 minutes of you posting.

Re: China warned others not to attend UN meeting on Xinjiang human rights violations

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I'm wondering if people in China can see this website in Google. Edit: to people who are downvoting this... check this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19540562

I wonder if YC readers can see this comment due to YC censorship.

But to answer your question; it was recently shown that hundreds of millions of Chinese had never even heard of Tiananmen Square, let alone ever seen the picture that is iconic in the west through it's propaganda.

But to be fair, look in the mirror, folks. As we wag our fingers at China, the is currently doing exactly the same thing as the strangle hold of authoritarian thought control cinches up ever tighter. Only in the west it is taking an ever more pernicious and, in many ways, more lasting form; when, e.g., Twitter (Muslim controlled), Reddit (Chinese controlled), Facebook (global domination of all of humanity inspired), YC (foreign national and Indian and deranged liberal VC tech tyrant controlled), Google (beholden and submissive to China), etc. all censor what they deem heretical and use the very same types of tactics against the wrongthinkers.

Just saying something here that is not glowing about "immigration", aka, the disposition of wealth and control over one's society in order to shatter democracy and the middle class and to advantage, empower, and enrich the wealthy at the expense of regular people through bribes and the plundering by foreigners ... the soldiers of the wealthy elite trying to destroy democracy and the middle class exactly as they are doing.

Re: China warned others not to attend UN meeting on Xinjiang human rights violations

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A painful but important reminder about Lu Guang, a photojournalist captured by the goverment for taking photos of the damage suffered by countryman (and nature) due pollution from chinese factories: https://imgur.com/gallery/XwzByK7 Something needs to be done, I'm not sure what but inaction will only aggravate the situation.

I really do appreciate the sentiment, but with an authoritarian regime like this there's isn't an awful lot other nations can practically do that would actually make a difference. Just look at North Korea, it's under total economic lock-down but still continues along on it's brutally oppressive way. It's not that I'm happy about it, any suggestions welcome.

Re: China warned others not to attend UN meeting on Xinjiang human rights violations

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A painful but important reminder about Lu Guang, a photojournalist captured by the goverment for taking photos of the damage suffered by countryman (and nature) due pollution from chinese factories: https://imgur.com/gallery/XwzByK7 Something needs to be done, I'm not sure what but inaction will only aggravate the situation.

Holy.., for some reason those photo's hit me hard here at work. Especially burying the child.

Re: China warned others not to attend UN meeting on Xinjiang human rights violations

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A painful but important reminder about Lu Guang, a photojournalist captured by the goverment for taking photos of the damage suffered by countryman (and nature) due pollution from chinese factories: https://imgur.com/gallery/XwzByK7 Something needs to be done, I'm not sure what but inaction will only aggravate the situation.

These images are haunting.

More on Lu Guang: "Lu is based in New York City, the first Chinese photographer to be invited by the U.S. State Department as a visiting scholar, and Beijing. In early November 2018, whilst travelling in Xinjiang, Lu was taken away by state security agents and has not been heard from since."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lu_Guang_(photographer)

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