> A new law adopted 2 September [2022], going into effect 1 December, establishes full extraterritoriality over Chinese and foreigners globally for certain crimes (fraud, telecom fraud, online scams, etc.);
> .. Since the end of November 2021, many notices have been issued to warn the Chinese public not to travel to nine countries with serious telecom and web crimes: Cambodia, the UAE, the Philippines, Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Malaysia,Turkey and Indonesia. People who have no "strict necessity" or "emergency reason" to travel to or stay in those countries are required to return to China as soon as possible.</i>
5 upvotes within the first minute? Then none for the next five minutes. Unusual.
Maybe some accounts out there have scripts running out there which auto-upvote Walter (or any account above a certain karma threshold) submissions? That'd be kinda cool, actually. HN amplification attack!
I was one upvote. I find it fascinating that a government can deploy a police department in a foreign nation. The local troopers and sheriff in my neck of the woods have very limited abilities once they leave their jurisdiction.
No doubt.. 2020's have become the era of Team China: World Police (No Escape Edition).
Maybe there are only about 5 sentient humans patrolling /new at the moment. Cheers compadre. Sometimes I wish we could all chat while sitting there idly refreshing /new.
What would be the difference between /new voters chatting and a coordinated voting clique? Perhaps if the chat was archived and public, like surveillance of Wall. St. traders, it could show that the chatters on /new were _not_ talking about /new, but then why have a chat among people watching /new?
It helps a lot that China does not have to observe basic concepts like jurisdictions, proportionality or a separation of powers. Laws that are in the way can be simply ignored, and there is nothing anyone can do about it.
The audacity of operating bureau's outside of its territory is fascinating and scary. For all the criticism that certain western democracies deserve of operating clandestine foreign bureaus, they weer bever normalized as a simpele police outfit targetting its own nationals.
https://safeguarddefenders.com/en/blog/230000-policing-expan...
> A new law adopted 2 September [2022], going into effect 1 December, establishes full extraterritoriality over Chinese and foreigners globally for certain crimes (fraud, telecom fraud, online scams, etc.);
> .. Since the end of November 2021, many notices have been issued to warn the Chinese public not to travel to nine countries with serious telecom and web crimes: Cambodia, the UAE, the Philippines, Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Malaysia,Turkey and Indonesia. People who have no "strict necessity" or "emergency reason" to travel to or stay in those countries are required to return to China as soon as possible.</i>
Just saw this as well: https://nationalpost.com/opinion/sabrina-maddeaux-how-hard-c...
5 upvotes within the first minute? Then none for the next five minutes. Unusual.
Maybe some accounts out there have scripts running out there which auto-upvote Walter (or any account above a certain karma threshold) submissions? That'd be kinda cool, actually. HN amplification attack!
I was one upvote. I find it fascinating that a government can deploy a police department in a foreign nation. The local troopers and sheriff in my neck of the woods have very limited abilities once they leave their jurisdiction.
No doubt.. 2020's have become the era of Team China: World Police (No Escape Edition).
Maybe there are only about 5 sentient humans patrolling /new at the moment. Cheers compadre. Sometimes I wish we could all chat while sitting there idly refreshing /new.
> patrolling /new ... wish we could all chat
What would be the difference between /new voters chatting and a coordinated voting clique? Perhaps if the chat was archived and public, like surveillance of Wall. St. traders, it could show that the chatters on /new were _not_ talking about /new, but then why have a chat among people watching /new?
HN ranking graph for this story, which has been stable on the third page with ~70s ranking: https://hnrankings.info/33049729/
Didn't know about hnrankings, that is nice. Thank you!
It helps a lot that China does not have to observe basic concepts like jurisdictions, proportionality or a separation of powers. Laws that are in the way can be simply ignored, and there is nothing anyone can do about it.
The audacity of operating bureau's outside of its territory is fascinating and scary. For all the criticism that certain western democracies deserve of operating clandestine foreign bureaus, they weer bever normalized as a simpele police outfit targetting its own nationals.