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by dafugg 3 days ago
Tell him to be careful. The chinese government might try to re-educate his email address.
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How so?
The Chinese government has been rounding up Uyghurs (pronounced like we-gir) to reeducate them. And the government really does not like it when people talk about it.

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

Took me a while admittedly (probably a "me problem") but it's a word play of "Uyghur".