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Thank You, Big Tech, for Unfriending China
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Thank You, Big Tech, for Unfriending China

By Jon Hersey

Jul 08, 2020
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In 2015, Chinese police arrested Wang Quanzhang, a civil rights attorney and one of more than two hundred attorneys, journalists, and civil rights activists arrested in what’s become known as the 709 crackdown.1 Most of those jailed were released after officers extracted “confessions,” often via torture and forced medication. Not Quanzhang, though. He re…

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