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from the 1984-was-not-supposed-to-be-an-instruction-manual dept.
http://mashable.com/2017/07/21/china-spyware-xinjiang/
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.
— 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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 06 2017, @01:48PM
Maybe if we look deeper we might even find US Gov/CIA involvement with Muslim separatists in China.
After all Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Libya, etc weren't fucked-up Islamic states till the US and their allies messed them up. For the past decade the USA has been trying to turn Syria into another of those fucked up states whereas the Russians were working against that (and trying to prop up a relatively less fucked up dictatorship).
The Saudi Gov is a great pal of the US and UK and the biggest sponsor of the terrorist-friendly version of Islam.
Islam is a sub-par religion as major religions go, but it doesn't have to be as bad as the versions the US Gov and their allies prefer/spread.