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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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[–] RealSpiderLane@lemmy.zip 10 points 5 days ago

This is the place a segment of America wants us to be more like. Funny enough, many of them don’t even realize they’re pushing us full-steam towards a China-esque police state. (We’ve gotten damn close on our own, but it’s still not the absolute totality of China’s system…yet.)