[bittermang]

I know this will be seen as a troll comment and downvoted, but, who doesn't China oppress?

[dang]

That's not only a troll comment that deserves to be downvoted, it's nationalistic flamebait, which is something we ban accounts for. Please don't post like this to HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[542458]

I get what you’re saying, but it’s a matter of magnitude - while the everyday restriction of what we’d take as basic rights and freedoms is bad, the large scale construction of concentration camps for minorities is generally accepted to be worse.

[simonh]

Their entire social, political and economic system is built on the principle of centralised control and the elimination of individual autonomy. So to varying degrees, everybody in China. Most Chinese simply toe the line, so it’s not immediately obvious to an outsider, but it scales from blocking social media posts they don’t want circulated, up to mass internment and re-education.