Sure, but their GDP has gone up and they invest a lot and the Shenzhen tech scene is cool so nobody cares.
Saudi Arabia is another such nation that gets the red carpet treatment in the West for the large amount of investment capital it tosses around while running a brutal dictatorship at home.
Well to be fair, it's a link to the whole is kinda generic, what discussion could it offer other than "isn't it terrible", right? I very much agree that it is, and I wish HN was less squeamish about the upstream provider of freedom to talk about intellectually interesting things, namely politics (as if animosity about that would spill over into technical discussions). But I didn't expect this to be discussed much, I just saw a documetary by them, thought "China Organ Harvest Research Center" sounded fake, turned out it's not and that their site wasn't posted here before. At least now it can be found in searches.
This site isn't the only source for this information. I've been hearing about China's grey market organ trade and the government's refusal to do anything about it (or possible complicity) for at least a decade. It's clearly real to some extent and you can add it to a long list of human rights abuses perpetuated or permitted by the PRC: racist concentration camps, forced abortions, overt confiscation of successful businesses, real as-in-you-get-arrested censorship, etc.
As far as politics being almost banned on HN: I think it's overall saved the site from being dragged into the alt-right / histrionic-left troll-fest that has eaten massive amounts of the Internet in the last decade. Politics can be interesting if the discussion participants are sane, but political discourse on the Internet seems to have been taken over by absolute raving lunacy (of both "right" and "left" forms) in recent years. A lot of it is driven by 'chan culture and the rest by for-profit professional trolls who have learned you can make money in podcasting and on YouTube by spewing divisive bullshit.
I didn't mean to say that site is the only source of information about this, just that "China Organ Harvest Research Center" sounded a bit too "on the nose", so I was surprised it's real.
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 21.7 ms ] threadSaudi Arabia is another such nation that gets the red carpet treatment in the West for the large amount of investment capital it tosses around while running a brutal dictatorship at home.
As far as politics being almost banned on HN: I think it's overall saved the site from being dragged into the alt-right / histrionic-left troll-fest that has eaten massive amounts of the Internet in the last decade. Politics can be interesting if the discussion participants are sane, but political discourse on the Internet seems to have been taken over by absolute raving lunacy (of both "right" and "left" forms) in recent years. A lot of it is driven by 'chan culture and the rest by for-profit professional trolls who have learned you can make money in podcasting and on YouTube by spewing divisive bullshit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_transplantation_in_China...