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twovests OP wrote (edited )

Reply to comment by neku in i think it's important we consider privacy as an important social justice issue. (CW for fascism, lotsa things) by twovests

i agree that it sounds very wild

TLDR: It sounds wild but is true. Just google "organ harvesting falun gong" and "organ harvesting uyghur". I focused too much on Uyghur people, the Falun Gong have been and still are also having their organs harvested.

First: Concentration camps for the Uyghur ethnic group (an extreme minority ethnic group which is mostly Muslim) (is most definitely a thing)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_re-education_camps], and (1)there's (2)plenty (3)of (4)research into facial ethnicity recognition and into recognition of Uyghur faces in particular.

Uyghur people make up less than 1% of the China population, but nearly half of people in Xinjiang are Uyghur. Xinjiang has a higher amount of surveillance than the rest of China, and anybody who enters the region has to consent to having a spyware app installed to their phone.

Finally, regarding organ harvesting, the most egregious claim: There's a well-known less-recent history of organ harvesting from other political prisoners, most notably the Falun Gong. The "reliance on death row inmates" for organ harvesting was supposedly ending around 2014.

Reports on systematic organ harvesting from Falun Gong prisoners first emerged in 2006, though the practice is thought by some to have started six years earlier.

Further down in the article,

Based on his research, Gutmann concluded that organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience became prevalent in the northwestern province of Xinjiang during the 1990s, when members of the Uyghur ethnic group were targeted in security crackdowns and “strike hard campaigns.”

I.e. If this is correct, they were harvesting organs from Uyghur people (who are mostly Muslim) and switched to Falun Gong around 1999.

So, aside from all this history, there are more recent reports that organs are still being harvested from prisoners. This is following an investigation that was released publicly, at ChinaTribunal

I focused too much on Uyghur people, but reading into this, the Falun Gong still are and have been being focused on. I was focused on the Uyghur people because of the amount of ML publications I saw regarding facial recognition of Uyghur people.

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twovests OP wrote

Reply to tfw you seriously damage your filesystem and are unable to boot by twovests

Explanation for people who don't hate themselves:

fsck is a Linux utility called "Filesystem check", which can be used to fix a broken filesystem (or seriously seriously damage it)

fsck -y (where -y means "yes, fix this") automatically says "yes, fix this issue" rather than having you answer 10000 yes or no questions

the feeling when you do stupid, stupid, stupid things, but are able to fix it in just a few minutes?

fsck yes

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twovests wrote

Reply to the mattering is occurring by devtesla

stay excited with me!! i've been excited for years. we're on the proper timeline for impeachment, and even though it's unlikely to come to fruition, it's still good for continuing investigations.

it's a real fucking shame that the only thing that matters is when trump hurts the other rich and powerful, but let's hope he continues.

but i have a feeling trump would step down or something before he were to get impeached. he's an extremely useful symbol of oppression and a symbol of rallying for white supremacists and that symbol would take a great blow if he was impeached.

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twovests wrote

Reply to Richard Stallman is at it again. by flabberghaster

Not sure if "at it again" refers to ANOTHER fresh piece of Gross News, or to this, which unfolded over the past few days. I'd provide context in this comment, but it includes some uncomfortable discussion (specifically w.r.t. pedophilia) so I'll make a fresh post for it.

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