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Man shows image of a police officer in China hanging a body camera from an IV drip to monitor him from his hospital bed after police beat him with bricks (sh.itjust.works)
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Photo by Ng Han Guan: Yang Guoliang shows a March 12, 2024, photo of him lying in a hospital bed after police beat him with bricks, as he sits in his home in Changzhou in eastern China's Jiangsu Province, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2025

Part of the AP's photo essay: Those caught in the dragnet of China’s digital cage enabled by U.S. tech

More information available in accompanying article: US tech companies enabled the surveillance and detention of hundreds of thousands in China

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[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Kinda off topic but not really because also a "pic"
I used to always watch and throw in coins to trigger the trains on this exact model train display at this train station.
Its so surreal to see it in an english AP article about Uyghur refugees.

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“Because of this technology … we have no freedom at all, sooner or later, Americans and others, too, will lose their freedoms.”

Its not much longer now yep. The US is already at this point. The UK is almost all the way there too.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 5 points 6 days ago

People are already being arrested in the UK for having subversive opinions and protesting