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
.ml critically supports the police here.
Don’t you know that PRC is the most democratic country in the world ?!? People are totally free to express themselves! PRC is a beacon of light showing us the way to total respect of human rights and diversity!!!
“critical” support. LOL.
If they had the decency to admit the horrors when they happened I might take the tankies a little more seriously. But most of them are in constant apologia and denial mode.
“Yeah, but look at America!”
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I’m pretty sure some of the tankies are genuinely paid troll. The level of gymnastics, spins and gaslighting they make is something that a trained PR person is proficient at. I noticed this way back in Reddit.