I guess if you are surrounded only by yes-sayers for too long, something like that may happen.
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Zhang Zhan is a role model for a person who is standing up. As some others have already written in their comments, it's a similar situation in China as it is in Russia, Iran, North Korea (or Nazi-Germany 90 years ago, if you seek an example in history).
Those Chinese who threaten their peers should be legally prosecuted and then sent back to China. If they don't value freedom of expression and human rights, they have nothing to do here in Europe. This is unacceptable.
I don't know the reason for the prompt in this particular case, of course, but there is a persistent form of racism in China, namely the prejudice that the Han Chinese are more advanced than other cultures inside and outside of China. Some experts say this view is even promoted by the government's propaganda.
There is also a good video by a foreigner living in China (19 min): CHINA: RACISM: China’s Ugly, Disturbing yet Open Secret
Last year, Human Rights Watch urged the Chinese government to combat anti-black racism on Chinese social media.
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There is a good article by the China Media Project from April 2024 about the Chinese Communist Party's AI policy:
Tracking Control: Bringing AI to the Party
China’s release this week of new draft rules governing the generation of AI content, coming just months after the launch of ChatGPT, might give the impression leaders are scrambling to catch up. But for years now, the Chinese Communist Party has planned to power up AI innovations — even as it contains them.
I corrected it, sorry.
ICC's Karim Khan announces arrest warrant application for Israeli and Hamas leaders
[Regarding Israel, the arrest warrants so far go against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Yoav Gallant.]
Just stumbled upon this on social media as a message to democratic countries:
In a video posted on Xitter, a Russian soldier who defected to Ukraine says his unit were using Elon Musk's Starlink satellite internet via an IP address in Latvia. They were paying for the subscription over Telegram.
What happens in Xinjiang is as disgusting and inhuman as is what happens in Gaza, and so is this whataboutism that is still widespread here.
Just one among many examples is this post: https://lemmy.ml/post/18948648 with the title: "English-language Wikipedia editors concluded: Israel committing genocide in Gaza"
At the time of this writing, there are 69 comments to this post, but none of them is mentioning the genocide in China, no whataboutism. Why not here?
And the whole 'story' is based on a Wikipedia entry, you know, the same Wikipedia that is criticized in the .ml communities for its bad quality seems to be good enough here. Why?
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As @[email protected] already said, this is about safety, and it's not a geopolitical thing.
Space debris expert: Orbits will be lost—and people will die—later this decade -- (2022)