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China Launches New App Allowing Citizens to Report Others For Expressing “Mistaken Opinions”
https://summit.news ^ | Published 1 min ago on 19 April, 2021 | Paul Joseph Watson

Posted on 04/19/2021 10:37:46 AM PDT by Red Badger

Targets dissidents who dispute country’s history or criticize ruling Communists.

China’s Communist government has launched a new app that encourages citizens to report dissidents for expressing “mistaken opinions” on the Internet.

The new platform will target anyone who criticizes the dictatorship’s ruling CCP, disputes the official version of the country’s history or engages in “misinformation.”

The new website and app was proudly unveiled by China’s Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), with authorities calling on users to play an “active role” in helping to identify “malicious people distorting facts and confusing” others.

“For a while now, some people with ulterior motives…have spread historically nihilistic false statements online, maliciously distorting, slandering and denying Party, national and military history in an attempt to confuse people’s thinking,” the announcement said.

“We hope that most internet users will play an active role in supervising society…and enthusiastically report harmful information.”

As Didi Rankovic notes, “It’s also unsurprising because it comes ahead of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party (CPP), when messages and narratives will have to be kept particularly “clean.”

China already operates an onerous social credit score system that bans people from using transportation and engaging in other basic functions of society if they commit minor infractions like jaywalking or buying too much junk food.

Given that social media mobs in the west, routinely aided by journalists, already conduct witch hunts that lead to people being socially ostracized, deplatformed and left unemployed for expressing “mistaken opinions,” are we really that better off than Chinese dissidents?


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2plus2is5; bigbrother; cac; china; doublethink; socialcredit; socialmedia; surveillance
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“Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.” ― George Orwell, 1984

“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.” ― George Orwell, 1984

1 posted on 04/19/2021 10:37:46 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

China is now stealing ideas from the DNC.


2 posted on 04/19/2021 10:39:54 AM PDT by outpostinmass2 (Y)
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To: Red Badger

How very......Facebook of them.


3 posted on 04/19/2021 10:40:18 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: Red Badger

Tyranny. Now there is an app for that!


4 posted on 04/19/2021 10:41:58 AM PDT by Nateman (Keep Liberty Alive! Article V!)
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To: Red Badger

Coming to a country near you!


5 posted on 04/19/2021 10:45:19 AM PDT by G Larry (Force the Universities to use their TAX FREE ENDOWMENTS to pay off Student loan debt!!!)
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To: Red Badger

Coming to a country near you!


6 posted on 04/19/2021 10:45:19 AM PDT by G Larry (Force the Universities to use their TAX FREE ENDOWMENTS to pay off Student loan debt!!!)
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To: BenLurkin

“Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.”
― George Orwell, 1984


7 posted on 04/19/2021 10:46:58 AM PDT by Red Badger ("We've always been at war with Climate Change, Winston."..............................)
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To: outpostinmass2

Maybe working hand in hand? I have no doubt the dims are salivating over this.


8 posted on 04/19/2021 10:58:21 AM PDT by ealgeone
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Biden’s forming a commission to study the CCP plan.


9 posted on 04/19/2021 11:00:28 AM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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To: Red Badger

I thought they already had Twitter and Fakebook in China.


10 posted on 04/19/2021 11:07:29 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Don't blame me, I Voted for the guy who actually Won the 2020 Presidential Election...)
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To: Red Badger

Sounds like something the leftist screw worms in CA would do.


11 posted on 04/19/2021 11:14:46 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Red Badger

Gulag awaits,,,


12 posted on 04/19/2021 11:16:35 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (Be Still and Know that I Am God. Rev 19)
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To: Kickass Conservative

Oh, they do. This is just an ‘added bonus’ from the CCP.

How soon till it’s here? My guess: Not long.

Call it ‘The Karen App’?


13 posted on 04/19/2021 11:18:10 AM PDT by hoagy62 (DTCM&OTTH)
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To: outpostinmass2
China is now stealing ideas from the DNC.

And the DNC stole them from the Nazis.

14 posted on 04/19/2021 11:22:57 AM PDT by Bernard Marx
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To: dragnet2

Probably bought the code from them!.................


15 posted on 04/19/2021 11:23:11 AM PDT by Red Badger ("We've always been at war with Climate Change, Winston."..............................)
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To: Red Badger

Is the app named KarenCCP?


16 posted on 04/19/2021 11:24:28 AM PDT by Savage Rider
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To: Red Badger

Good thing we are a capitalist country. We have Google, twitter, Facebook and YouTube to do that for us and still make a buck.

/s


17 posted on 04/19/2021 11:29:19 AM PDT by DeFault User
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To: Red Badger

That will reduce your social score, and as soon as they chicoms eliminate cash, enable the dictators to take money from your account.

It will come here a few years later, if the dems are still in charge.


18 posted on 04/19/2021 11:54:40 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Voltaire: To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.)
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To: I want the USA back

A monetary version of “cancel culture”.
Wrong speak will literally cost you.


19 posted on 04/19/2021 12:56:42 PM PDT by JCL3 (As Richard Feynman might have said, this is reality taking precedence over public relations.)
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To: Red Badger

Coming to America!


20 posted on 04/19/2021 1:01:41 PM PDT by Savage Beast ("A nation of sheep will be controlled by wolves.")
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