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A Tale of Two Surveillance States

In the latest episode of the podcast<em> Crazy/Genius</em>, we speak with residents of East New York—and hear some frightening parallels.
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The Chinese government is brutalizing its Muslim Uyghur population in the western province of Xinjiang, in what Omer Kanat, the director of the Uyghur Human Rights Watch, calls a “genocide without the gas chambers.” Up to 2 million Uyghurs are reportedly being held in detention centers, where they have allegedly been separated from their families and in many cases tortured.

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