I recently heard a conf speaker say that nobody in China minds pervasive surveillance. My thoughts: - We can assume the Uyghurs in interment camps are against it - the people of Hong Kong have been clear - we don't know how others feel if they are not free to express dissent
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Replying to @math_rachel @zeynep
A variation of the claim I grew up with, that “Asians don’t want democracy”, which had been disproven again and again in Taiwan, South Korea, the Philippines, etc.
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Replying to @hroethgar @math_rachel
Yeah. That’s just orientalist nonsense. Same nonsense for Middle East that people show to be nonsense at great risk and huge price time and time again.
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