For years, Chinese leader Xi Jinping has pushed ethnic minority groups like Tibetans and Uyghurs to adopt an identity rooted in Chinese nationality and allegiance to the ruling Communist Party.

Now, that push has been codified into a sweeping new law that reaches into classrooms, neighborhoods and homes – and gives Beijing the right to target people outside of its borders that it believes violate its rules.

The statute, officially known as the Ethnic Unity and Progress Promotion Law, came into effect on July 1. It bans acts that “undermine ethnic unity or create ethnic division” among China’s 56 officially recognized ethnicities, which include a Han Chinese majority that makes up over 90% of the country’s 1.4 billion people.

  • Lucius_Sweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    10 hours ago

    Bytedance, who have their headquarters in China, owns tiktok. America has their own American owned subsidiary company, 80% American shares, 20% Bytedance. The whole world isn’t America buddy.

      • Lucius_Sweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        7 hours ago

        The American subsidiary company yes, this is only true for tiktok in the USA. The rest of the world uses tiktok headquartered in Beijing. It’s not that hard is it? I mean it was all over the news last year. I like most of the world do not live in the USA!

        • doben@lemmy.mlEnglish
          23·
          7 hours ago

          Aaand you think, if you used the non-american version*, the evil Chinese version, to check out what people say about Xinjiang, you‘d end up being brainwashed by Chinese state propaganda? And you‘re so scared or prejudiced about that possibility, that you won‘t even consider it? How do you actually manage to do critical thinking with that kind of approach?

          *which got bought to modify the algorithm, so that US citizens won‘t be able to see the reality of the Palestinian genocide anymore, so with the sole intention to censor and brainwash.

          • Lucius_Sweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
            41·
            6 hours ago

            *which got bought to modify the algorithm, so that US citizens won‘t be able to see the reality of the Palestinian genocide anymore, so with the sole intention to censor and brainwash.

            You clearly understand how the Americans can manipulate the algorithm to control the content users receive yet you do not think that the Chinese are doing the same thing to their version.

            Then you question my ability to think critically? I love when you guys make fools of yourselves without realising. Typical for a .ml bootlicker, all the chemicals in the boot rubber must make your brains no work good huh?

            • doben@lemmy.mlEnglish
              31·
              16 minutes ago

              Thanks for the unnecessary and cringe hate towards your dumb red scare bogeyman, I realize that they could do and likely are doing that, in some ways, generally.

              What I‘m criticizing is, that you avoid reviewing your own claims and prejudices about something for which your knowledge stems from western propaganda only. All you do is claim that everything you associate the platform with is brain rot, government spyware, and propaganda. By hearsay. By indoctrination. Nobody’s telling you to use it daily or whatever. You talk out of your ass, which only poops out what you’ve put in before, only browner and stinkier. Exemplary, on a hit piece propaganda post on one of the US’s main media arms, against one of the two major western enemies. About a law that does not do what the piece is claiming it does. I suggest reading the direct translation on this comment thread.

              Surely, the Chinese government will censor shit, one can hardly prove a negative. So, if you won’t find what you hoped to see, you‘ll only confirm your prejudice, that it‘s all censored. Meh. But what you could infer, if you wouldn‘t be fueled by your sinophobic hate, is that the people that do visit the region could very well put stuff on the internet, that would verify the genocide claims made by western media. But that’s not really happening. People would certainly try that, as circumventing the Great Firewall is of course possible, but you don’t hear about them disappearing or being jailed for exposing the claims, do you? And if there would be a rare occasion, would you check their veracity, or again take it all in, spoon fed to you, only to validate your hate? At which point will you stop angrily repeating bullshit, but actually start to think critically? My claim is, that you just won’t.

              Likely in the same way you never took a minute to research the refutations of the alleged Uyghur genocide, only to steadfastly remain on your indoctrinated idea, that these evil Communists must of course be doing, what your good willing and honest media is telling you and now is replicating anytime it gets a chance to do so.

                • doben@lemmy.mlEnglish
                  2·
                  2 hours ago

                  You’re doing a good job, nice to have you around and busy! Although, I do hope you’re able to offset the experiences here with some positive RL stuff.

                  • Nonconfrontational@lemmy.mlEnglish
                    2·
                    2 hours ago

                    My job is hiking 10km through the woods every day with no internet access lol. I spend my weekends attending local fairs and craft expos. I try and organize as effectively as I can. Thank you for the well wishes!

            • Nonconfrontational@lemmy.mlEnglish
              11·
              2 hours ago

              You’re literally eating western propaganda like it’s your last meal, and you call us who are trying to parse through disinformation bootlickers?