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gelatoeconomist.bsky.social @gelatoeconomist.bsky.social · Jun 12

Did american tech company help to build The Golden Shield?
"Cisco Systems customized its hardware for the Golden Shield in such a way as to enable the Chinese government to identify, track, profile, arrest, disappear, and torture (in at least one case to death) the plaintiffs or their loved ones."

China’s Golden Shield: Is Cisco Systems Complicit?

cyberlaw.stanford.edu

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gelatoeconomist.bsky.social @gelatoeconomist.bsky.social · Jun 12

WORD OF THE DAY: "THE GOLDEN SHIELD" 金盾工程 - one of the 12 important "golden" projects, a network security architecture since 2000
& used by the Ministry of Public Security for the surveillance of Chinese dissidents, human rights defenders & others.
#HumanRights #Internet #DigitalAge #Information

Golden Shield Project - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

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gelatoeconomist.bsky.social @gelatoeconomist.bsky.social · May 31

" “Genocide tourism” - expression used by Uyghurs to oppose tours to Xinjiang where tourists visit villages where everybody smiles and dances under the watchful eye of the Chinese authorities. The reality is different, but tourists do not see it."

Source: bitterwinter.org/children-pro...

Children Protest “Genocide Tourism” to Tibet

When trains with tourists pass, the traditional stone-throwing ropes called “urduo” are used to express disapproval of the staged tours.

bitterwinter.org

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gelatoeconomist.bsky.social @gelatoeconomist.bsky.social · May 31

"Urduo" - a rope/whip made of yak/goat hair. Used by herdsmen to drive cattle but also to throw stones to show the road to the livestock or scare away wild animals." Used by kids to show disapproval of foreign package tours.

#NationalGeographic #travelling #Tibet #EastTurkiestan #GenocideTourism

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gelatoeconomist.bsky.social @gelatoeconomist.bsky.social · May 27

Source: www.accessnow.org/internet-shu...

Internet shutdowns in 2023: the #KeepItOn Report

Access Now and the #KeepItOn coalition documented 283 internet shutdowns in 2023, across 39 countries -- the highest number since 2016.

www.accessnow.org

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gelatoeconomist.bsky.social @gelatoeconomist.bsky.social · May 27

What if Internet & social media couldn't be shut down & censored?
"2023 is the worst year of internet shutdowns ever recorded"
• 283 shutdowns in 39 countries
• 41% increase, from 2022

#KeepItOn #StopUyghurGenocide #FreeTibet #FreePalestine #Internet #FreePress #DigitalAge #censorship

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gelatoeconomist.bsky.social @gelatoeconomist.bsky.social · May 25

Who of these 448 Uyghur intellectuals on the list are terrorists? Doctors, computer engineers, journalists, university professors, actors, economists, directors, singers, poets, writers and scholars?
#news #media #Uyghurs #Kazakhs #economy

Source:
uyghurhjelp.org/2023/01/list...

List of Uyghur intellectuals imprisoned in China from 2016 to the present (Last updated by Abduweli Ayup December 31, 2022) - Uyghur Hjelp

List of Uyghur intellectuals imprisoned in China from 2016 to the present (Last updated by Abduweli Ayup December 31, 2022) include doctors, professors, journalists

uyghurhjelp.org

gelatoeconomist.bsky.social @gelatoeconomist.bsky.social · May 19

Pegasus, Predator, SilkBean, DoubleAgent, CarbonSteal or maybe GoldenEagle? Zero day? What cute name does it have? 🥰

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gelatoeconomist.bsky.social @gelatoeconomist.bsky.social · May 19

This is how a single website can look on two different phones 🤩
Is my old phone (iphone) hacked?
#HiHi #HaHa #ChineseLanguage #tech #dailylife #security #education #YourDailyGelato #cyber

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gelatoeconomist.bsky.social @gelatoeconomist.bsky.social · May 18

"Work sets you free"?

"When Yusi posted an open recruitment advertisement for workers in 2017, safety & financial jobs were limited to Han people only; manual labour jobs such as silicon crushing were open to ethnic minorities who were “able to bear hardships & hard work" &
had “no bad record”

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gelatoeconomist.bsky.social @gelatoeconomist.bsky.social · May 18

"This suggests that the re-education camps are likely supplying laborers for the stone industry in the Shanshan
Stone Industrial Park."

#cheap #trade #economy #money #reeducation #education #ConfuciusInstitute

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gelatoeconomist.bsky.social @gelatoeconomist.bsky.social · May 18

"In Ili Prefecture new companies that made at least 50% of their sales from products for export, and existing companies that made at least 70% of their sales from products for export, were granted exemptions for local corporate income tax, property tax & urban land use tax for 5 years." #competitive

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gelatoeconomist.bsky.social @gelatoeconomist.bsky.social · May 18

Why are solar panels from China cheaper? #HumanRights #economy #money #CBDC #Bitcoin

Source: www.shu.ac.uk/helena-kenne...

In Broad Daylight Uyghur Forced Labour in the Solar Supply Chain | Sheffield Hallam UniversitySite SearchMenuTwitterFacebookInstagramYouTubeTwitterFacebookInstagramYouTube

In Broad Daylight reveals how forced labour in the Uyghur region has ripple effects throughout international solar supply chains.

www.shu.ac.uk

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gelatoeconomist.bsky.social @gelatoeconomist.bsky.social · May 18

"...reports indicate that
people working in the camps are either unpaid, paid far less than the minimum wage, or have their salaries reduced with the explanation that they owe a debt. Local police hold workers’ identification cards, controlling their movement." #FreeUyghur #ForcedLabor #economy

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gelatoeconomist.bsky.social @gelatoeconomist.bsky.social · May 18

•45% of the world’s solar-grade polysilicon supply comes from Uyghur Region
•1/5 of the Uyghur & Kazakh population of XUAR is engaged in labour relocation programmes.
•2.6 million minoritised citizens "placed" in jobs in farms & factories through state-sponsored “surplus labour” initiatives.
#news

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gelatoeconomist.bsky.social @gelatoeconomist.bsky.social · May 15

"High-technology controls on phone and online communications in Tibetan areas often prevent news of Tibetan protests and arrests from reaching the outside world"
#technology #economy #CBDC #money #Bitcoin #OpenSource #P2P #PoW #news #media

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gelatoeconomist.bsky.social @gelatoeconomist.bsky.social · May 15

"...158 Tibetans are confirmed to have set themselves on fire since 2009 to protest Chinese rule in Tibetan areas, and another eight have taken their lives in Nepal and India."

#news #data #HumanRights #fire

Source: www.rfa.org/english/news...

www.rfa.org

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gelatoeconomist.bsky.social @gelatoeconomist.bsky.social · May 12

P2P transactions mean there is no threesome with your bank, Mastercard, UnionPay, Alipay, Visa, Mir, PayPal & any other payment processors. Moreover, one doesn't need debit/credit cards, nor even payment terminals.
#evolution #democracy #liberty #economy #money #GelatoFinance

gelatoeconomist.bsky.social @gelatoeconomist.bsky.social · May 12

Peer-to-Peer is a new concept of transfering value over space & time 🛸from person to person without intermediaries within the same blockchain ecosystem using public & private keys 🔑 Transactions are verifiable on chain ⛓️
#Bitcoin #crypto #GelatoEconomist #economy #news #money #yummy

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gelatoeconomist.bsky.social @gelatoeconomist.bsky.social · May 11

Does "sextortion" problem reveal other problems such as attitude to nudity (sexting & nude body as sth to be ashamed of) or lack of even basic cybersecurity knowledge?
Isn't exposure of your private data far worse than nude body expo? Internet is not private & safe.
#exposure #nudes #blackmailing

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gelatoeconomist.bsky.social @gelatoeconomist.bsky.social · May 10

Source: chinadigitaltimes.net/2012/03/gras...

Grass-Mud Horse Word of the Week

Editor’s Note: This is the first installment of a weekly featured word from China Digital Space’s Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by Chinese netizens and frequently encountered in...

chinadigitaltimes.net

gelatoeconomist.bsky.social @gelatoeconomist.bsky.social · May 10

草泥马 (cǎonímǎ) - "grass-mud horse", which sounds nearly the same in Chinese as “f*** your mother” (cào nǐ mā), was created as a way to get around and poke fun at government censorship of vulgar content. On a political level can also mean “f*** the Party.” #language #news #culture #censorship #edu

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gelatoeconomist.bsky.social @gelatoeconomist.bsky.social · May 9

Is "dissolving web content" by producing a lot of worthless shit-content a form of censorship? #AI or well-paid content creators seem to be perfect for that 😘 Where is the truth? 🫠 #HideAndSeek #media #censorship #news #sponsoring #tech

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gelatoeconomist.bsky.social @gelatoeconomist.bsky.social · May 9

Source: chinadigitaltimes.net/2023/06/word...

Word(s) of the Week: “Objects Placed in a Row” (物体排成一排, wùtǐ páichéng yīpái)

The sight of a lone man standing before a row of tanks in Beijing is perhaps the most enduring image to emerge from the Tiananmen Protests of 1989. Photographs taken on June 5 of that year—one day aft...

chinadigitaltimes.net

gelatoeconomist.bsky.social @gelatoeconomist.bsky.social · May 9

Typographic tricks & phrases used to evade censorship of Tiananmen Protests (5th of June 1989) in China:

"占占人" or "占占占人" = "tank man" in front of 2 or 3 tanks
"占占点" or "占点占" = a person being crashed by a tank
"物体排成一排" (wùtǐ páichéng yīpái) = objects placed in a row
#DailyGelato #censorship #tech

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