For years, Chinese leader Xi Jinping has pushed ethnic minority groups like Tibetans and Uyghurs to adopt an identity rooted in Chinese nationality and allegiance to the ruling Communist Party.

Now, that push has been codified into a sweeping new law that reaches into classrooms, neighborhoods and homes – and gives Beijing the right to target people outside of its borders that it believes violate its rules.

The statute, officially known as the Ethnic Unity and Progress Promotion Law, came into effect on July 1. It bans acts that “undermine ethnic unity or create ethnic division” among China’s 56 officially recognized ethnicities, which include a Han Chinese majority that makes up over 90% of the country’s 1.4 billion people.

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      Bytedance, who have their headquarters in China, owns tiktok. America has their own American owned subsidiary company, 80% American shares, 20% Bytedance. The whole world isn’t America buddy.

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          The American subsidiary company yes, this is only true for tiktok in the USA. The rest of the world uses tiktok headquartered in Beijing. It’s not that hard is it? I mean it was all over the news last year. I like most of the world do not live in the USA!

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            Aaand you think, if you used the non-american version*, the evil Chinese version, to check out what people say about Xinjiang, you‘d end up being brainwashed by Chinese state propaganda? And you‘re so scared or prejudiced about that possibility, that you won‘t even consider it? How do you actually manage to do critical thinking with that kind of approach?

            *which got bought to modify the algorithm, so that US citizens won‘t be able to see the reality of the Palestinian genocide anymore, so with the sole intention to censor and brainwash.

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              *which got bought to modify the algorithm, so that US citizens won‘t be able to see the reality of the Palestinian genocide anymore, so with the sole intention to censor and brainwash.

              You clearly understand how the Americans can manipulate the algorithm to control the content users receive yet you do not think that the Chinese are doing the same thing to their version.

              Then you question my ability to think critically? I love when you guys make fools of yourselves without realising. Typical for a .ml bootlicker, all the chemicals in the boot rubber must make your brains no work good huh?