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by MagnumOpus 1855 days ago
Orders of magnitude. While both strain credulity, it is more plausible to take a government at its word for 300 people than for 3 million.

Plausibly it could be the case that there are 100 wrongly imprisoned people in Camp X-Ray without legal recourse... But equally plausibly there are at the very least 1,000,000 wrongly imprisoned people in the Uyghurstan concentration camps, with thousands added every day...