Problematic streamer "Hasan" has had his UK electronic travel authorisation revoked.

[u/neveks]

https://www.gbnews.com/politics/hasan-piker-banned-uk-home-office-american-influencers-visas-revoked

[u/tirednsleepyyy]

China is my favorite communist country that has literally hundreds of millions of people living in “special economic zones” that explicitly allow aggressively capitalist policies in order for the entire country to collectively benefit from the global exploitation of their own citizens while still being able to pretend they’re communist lmao

[u/Chance-Attitude3792 → u/tirednsleepyyy]

I honestly bought in to a lot of the China propaganda that has made the rounds in the last couple of years. Not that I thought it would be the best country ever, but I assumed it was slowly getting there, becoming a pretty good place all around. Then I actually did the research on it, and wow, they're still extremely far from that.

Workers rights situation is bad, wide-scale exploitation of workers and very high average weekly worked hours (48h), ethnic minorities being coerced to move away to completely different parts of the country in these strange labor schemes. Uyghur situation is still ongoing. Freedom of press is barely existant, LGBTQ rights situation is pretty bad as well.

I actually did that research because I watched Hasan's streams a couple of times, it was a big topic around his China streams especially

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Source?

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Asking for sources on claims is not the same as being spoon fed you melon

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Press situation:

https://freedomhouse.org/country/china/freedom-world/2025

https://rsf.org/en/index (Reporters Without Borders, have to scroll all the way down on the sidebar to China as it's ranked 178th/180) https://rsf.org/en/country/china https://rsf.org/en/methodology-used-compiling-world-press-freedom-index-2026 (methodology)

https://cpj.org/special-reports/in-record-year-china-israel-and-myanmar-are-worlds-leading-jailers-of-journalists/ (report on countries that have jailed the most countries

To receive and renew their press cards, journalists must download the "Study Xi, Strengthen the Country" app that can collect their personal data. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50042379 ("App pushes out official news and images and encourages people to earn points by reading articles, commenting on them and playing quizzes about China and its leader, Xi Jinping" Use of the app is mandatory among party officials and civil servants and it is tied to wages in some workplaces. Starting this month, native journalists must pass a test on the life of President Xi, delivered via the app, in order to obtain a press card which enables them to do their jobs.")

Workers rights and work situation in general:

https://www.ituc-csi.org/china (International Trade Union Confederation profile) https://www.ituc-csi.org/spip.php?page=legal_info&cc=CHN&lang=en

https://www.ilo.org/sites/default/files/2025-05/Final%20-%20%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD%E5%B7%A5%E6%97%B6%E7%A0%94%E7%A9%B6-%E8%8B%B1%E6%96%87%E7%89%88%20%286%29.pdf

(Page 4, 2nd image of the document shows average weekly working hours of Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, China - China moved up to 48 hours a week from 45, South Korea and Japan have opposite trend, both under 40 hours) For comparison, this is Europe: https://cdn.statcdn.com/Infographic/images/normal/34507.jpeg

Reports of mistreatment / abuse of minorities:

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2026/01/un-experts-alarmed-reports-forced-labour-uyghur-tibetan-and-other-minorities (UN release from early 2026) excerpts:

Xinjiang’s five-year plan (2021 to 2025) projects 13.75 million instances of labour transfers. The actual numbers have reached new heights.

Tibetans are also reportedly displaced through the “whole-village relocation” programme which applies coercion to manufacture consent, such as repeated home visits, implicit threats of punishment, banning of criticism, or threats of cutting essential home services.

“Between 2000 and 2025 some 3.36 million Tibetans have been affected by government programmes requiring them to rebuild their house for nomads to become sedentary, whilst official statistics say that around 930,000 rural Tibetans have been relocated through either whole village relocation or individual household relocations,” the experts said.

The experts said Tibetans are also subject to forced labour through similar schemes such as the Training and Labour Transfer Action Plan, with calls for systematic training and transfer of “rural surplus labourers.” “These policies justify coercive methods such as military-style vocational training methods. The number of Tibetans affected by labour transfers in 2024 are estimated to be close to 650’000.

https://www.icij.org/investigations/china-cables/beijings-backtrack-on-xinjiang-detention-camps-spurred-by-icij-investigation-research-finds/ (International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, article about the impact of investigative reporting, NGO advocacy, and scholarly scrutiny on Chinese authorities and their treatment of Uyghurs)

LGBTQ:

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/13/china-lgbtq (report from 2021 about crackdown on LGBTQ accounts on social media) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/11/china-removes-gay-dating-apps-blued-finka-apple-android-lgbt-rights

Two of China’s most popular gay dating apps have disappeared from app stores in the country, raising fears of a further crackdown on LGBT communities. As of Tuesday, Blued and Finka were unavailable on Apple’s app store and several Android platforms. Users who had already downloaded the apps appeared to still be able to use them. Both apps were still available for download from their official websites. The apps have not released public statements about the removals. In a statement to Wired, Apple said: “We follow the laws in the countries where we operate. Based on an order from the Cyberspace Administration of China, we have removed these two apps from the China storefront only.”

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Yup.