The Chinese government has facilitated the mass transfer of Uyghur and other ethnic minority citizens from the far west region of Xinjiang to factories across the country. Under conditions that strongly suggest forced labour, Uyghurs are working in factories that are in the supply chains of at least 83 well-known global brands in the technology, clothing and automotive sectors, including Apple, BMW, Gap, Huawei, Nike, Samsung, Sony and Volkswagen.
The current coronavirus outbreak is showing us once again just how dependent the world is on Chinese manufacturing. The companies implicated in this report – technology companies in particular, since this is OSAlert – need all these Chinese workers to function, to exist, and to grow their revenue and Cayman Islands money piles even more, more, more.
Do you really think Tim Cook loses one night of sleep over a few thousand Muslims ground to minced meat between the cogs of his manufacturing empire?
Nothing new. The Chinese government doesn’t want diversity. The only “true” Chinese are the Han, the rest are to be assimilated/diluted/eliminated.
So do the Turks. The Uyghurs Turks would do the same as what the Han Chinese are doing if they had the chance, as their brothers in Turkey did and are doing. I don’t feel sorry for them.
PS: My previous comment disappeared without any reason given, but here is the condensed version.
@kurkosdr: Yes there is lots of comment censorship on this website, sadly. At the same time the author never gets tired to (rightfully) criticize the censorship done by China or the tech giants. Quite ironic, really.
I think Thom does criticize countries when they censor.
I don’t think Thom criticizes the tech giants when they censor.
Basically Thom seems to agree with the “https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution”.
Tech giants, and this blog always have their own terms of services that you agree with and have to abide by in order to use it. Literally calling the Uyghurs in China your enemy (I assume) violates
https://www.osnews.com/faq/
avgalen,
Many posters, myself included, break some of the rules regularly, haha. I often go off topic, like now
Prior to joining osnews, I was a member of a different (now defunct) community called tech talk. It was fun until the corporation behind it hired moderators for warning and banning people NOT over rule violations but over strong opinions that didn’t reflect the corporate agenda. Obviously there are no 1st amendment rights on privately owned forums, even if they’re open to the public, but it left an extremely sour taste for over-moderation and agenda motivated moderation. There have been a few divisive topics on osnews that did not end well and the threads got locked, but I do appreciate Thom’s generally light-handed approach to moderation. Thank you Thom!
I wouldn’t have brought this up, but since you quoted it…
…perhaps this needs to be updated to reflect the fact that osnews does in fact use our emails for gravatar and that md5 hashes of our emails are publicly revealed beside our comments.
Replying here because the system doesn’t allow me to Alfman in the correct place….
Moderation on this forum/blog is indeed very light and in general I don’t have any complaints about it. It used to be much better with the up/down voting where it pretty much moderated itself. I am totally fine with the post from kurkosdr (and my reply) being removed although my personal prefference would be to keep such comments in the open.
The reason that I cited the FAQ was to show that moderators clearly have the right (not duty!) to remove any posts that they want, especially offensive posts. Sometimes it is good to remind people of the rules on a forum. And good catch that you found the email-to-gravatar discrepancy. Hopefully that will be changed/clarified
Thank you for sharing this. This is a true atrocity that no one dares to talk about.
China are the next Nazi Germany. The CCP has flipped from communist to fascism. It wouldn’t be the first time American corporations have happily gone along with it.
The CCP is still communist, after all mass murder and oppression is an inherent part of the communist ideology.
No, one of the defining differences is that Communism phrases everything in terms of class, while fascism phrases everything in terms of race. Although either can use their terms to hide true motives, when you see explicitly racial oppression it is emblematic of fascism.
FlyingJester,
Why would you say fascism phrases everything in terms of race? This does not fit my own definitions for fascism. Dictators and military states use fascism to control and oppress the people. It’s more about dominant power than race.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism
Fascist leaders might use racism as a political tool, but I don’t see it as a defining factor. I worry that fascism could be making a resurgence even in “democratic” strongholds. Many of us have forgotten the lessons of the past, and people are too foolish to see and call out these tendencies within their own parties.
Calling people you don’t even know your enemy just because of their ethnicity is textbook racism.
Or in other words: Just because some Turks do something that you don’t like, you shouldn’t call other Turks the enemy
The vast majority of them vote for hyper-nationalistic and hyper-expansionist neo-ottoman parties (with the exception of the Kurds which aren’t Turks) so I think I will consider them my enemy, thank you very much.
You don’t seem to know what the voting options are in China…
I am talking about how their brothers the Turks vote in Turkey. Uyghurs would vote for the same Kilicdaroglus and Erdogans (that is, hyper-nationalistic and hyper-expansionist neo-ottomans) if they had the chance, because they are the same people. I don’t care about them. Do they care about us Greeks being subjected to a silent invasion by the Uyghurs brothers the Turks? No.
Basically if the Uyghurs want any sympathy from non-muslims who know what Turkey is currently doing (that is, openly engaging in state-run human trafficking and silent invasion), the Uyghurs should be careful to not associate themselves with the shitstain of the world that is Turkey in any way.
So THAT’s why the stock market didn’t tumble as badly because of the corona virus threat.
Nah, the market rebounded because companies are already gouging the market for an epidemic that may not even occur, and if it does, won’t be for months yet. Gotta take advantage of the price gouging while the gouging is good. It’ll probably drop again after the current round of price gouging runs its course.