Posted on 07/22/2017 3:01:32 PM PDT by ForYourChildren
China has ramped up surveillance measures in Xinjiang, home to much of its Muslim minority population, according to reports from Radio Free Asia.
Authorities sent out a notice over a week ago instructing citizens to install a "surveillance app" on their phones, and are conducting spot checks in the region to ensure that residents have it.
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— Delinda Tien (@TienDelinda) July 14, 2017
The notice, written in Uyghur and Chinese, was sent by WeChat to residents in Urumqi, Xinjiang's capital.
Android users were instructed to scan the QR code in order to install the Jingwang app that would, as authorities claimed, "automatically detect terrorist and illegal religious videos, images, e-books and electronic documents" stored in the phone. If illegal content was detected, users would be ordered to delete them.
Users who deleted, or did not install the app, would be detained for up to 10 days, according to social media users.
A teardown analysis by users in China showed that the app appears similar to a "citizen safety" (百姓安全) app developed by Urumqi police in April this year. The app, developed in-house, allowed users to report suspicious events to the police.
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“The app reportedly scans for the MD5 digital signatures of media files in the phone, and matches them to a stored database of offending files classified by the government as illegal “terrorist-related” media.”
For all the heavy-handedness of Chinese tactics, I have said for years that of all the civilized nations, only China and Japan seem to know how to deal with Mohammedans (Japan doesn’t let them in... China has no choice as part of their territory includes a Mohamedan region ...)
I always figured such an app came pre-installed on each cell phone I’ve owned.
Just find some judge in Hawaii to nullify it worldwide....
That ought to go over well. The Ugyurs don’t like the Chinese anyway and have been battling them for a while
Did you hear about the family of scorpions who wandered onto a fire ant mound?
Some stories don’t lend themselves to taking sides. lol
I remember some 30 years ago reading in the Post about NSA monitoring all phone conversations in the US. It’s how in fact we arrested so many within days of 9/11, they ran a program looking for key words. IOW I’ve known about it for say 35 years or so.
I object to your analogising human beings to insects. The Chinese have one of the longest lasting civilizations in history.
(...the only thing that messes up the cuteness of my post slightly is that Scorpions are arthropods...)
Dear Abby: I am a lawyer who has no ability and no morals. I want to be a judge, but need to know where I could go where such qualities are appreciated. Where should I practice law and start contributing graft to the corrupt government?
Abby: You have many many choices, but I feel that you are perhaps bottom of the barrel and as such, should choose Hawaii.
When China forces something, there is not much wiggle room for the non-compliant.
Consider the vast imbalance of male children to female children under China’s “one child” directive. Parents will abort or even commit infanticide if the child is of the “wrong gender”.
For years I have wondered which side to take in this part of the world. Of course we can’t side with the Red Chinese, and the Uygurs have the prettiest girls in Central Asia. But on the other hand, the Uygurs are working with the Taliban and all the other terrorist groups we are fighting.
Chinese Muslims will simply pay American-Indians (Native Americans if you will) to teach them smoke signaling.
Mao Tse-tung: Emperor of the Blue Ants by Gyorgi Palaczi-Horvath (London: Secker & Warburg, 1962)
There are Muslims in Japan these days. Malaysians and Indonesians.
You go, China!! Get the effin muzzies!!!
In my defense my analogy would more accurately be between the
communist government vs. Islam rather than the respective cultures
of Han Chinese and Uyghurs. ;-)
That is funny. I’ve never even heard of that book.
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