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by throwaway4china 1893 days ago
Huawei is a Chinese corporation. Legally it must report data to the CCP when requested.

The CCP is known to commit human rights violations, especially against it's Uighurs population.

Providing data to them is furthering these human rights violations.

Yes you can say other countries spy on citizens, but what the country does with the data is an important distinction.

Furthermore, there's usually a judicial process to request this data in other countries.

A warrant is needed from a judge, and even still any action must go through the legal process. Such is not true for the CCP.

From political dissent to being a minority can be your crime, there is no jury, there is no trial.

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To be honest I do wonder what other countries' government do with the data they have gathered on their citizens as well as foreign personnel. I guess it must be that the justice league countries are using those data to protect their citizens and defend human rights across the globe.
It's more the structure of the government rather than a justice league. The governments are held accountable by the people. Such is not true in China.

You don't have to wonder what China does with it's data. They track and imprison people for their dissent and ethnic status. There is no trial by jury. You are sent off to a work camp.

That does not happen in modern democracies. If you have evidence of such, please present it.

Proof against CCP: https://xjdp.aspi.org.au/

Just to get ahead of this but some people like to say you can compare the US immigration centers to the CCP concentration camps.

This is a false equivalency and a common CCP-propaganda talking point.

People willingly migrate to the US and are relieved when they hit these camps, they turn themselves in on purpose. They are processed and either deported or released and await trial to determine their asylum claim. None are there by force, it is temporary to process them.

The CCP takes people from their population by force and keeps them in work camps. Notably they take people just for being an ethnic minority. This is all without trial by jury.

Well I guess Wikipedia is a starting point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Human_rights_abuses_i...

About the US immigration centres --- I am not sure if those who suffered there would had come to those camps if they had knew what's happening in them, especially the children.

Sure pick something from the list that is an ongoing human rights violation from the government that they are using data harvesting to continue.

Bonus points if it's equivalent to GENOCIDE, which is what the ONGOING human rights violation in China is.

The data going to them helps them continue this GENOCIDE.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_genocide_of_Uyghurs

You like linking to wikipedia, which article from the list you linked is equivalent to my link?

Must meet the requirements of it being CURRENT and caused by the government DIRECTLY.

All cultures have a bad and violent history. What matters is your current morals.

How about the incidents described in this article: https://www.acslaw.org/expertforum/mass-surveillance-and-bla...
The US is not tracking down and transporting all blacks to work camps to "reeducate them" with the data they collect.

The CCP is doing this to their Uighur population. Do you not see the difference in extremes?