Chinese police establish stations overseas in crackdown on citizens abroad
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> 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.
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!
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.
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?
HN ranking graph for this story, which has been stable on the third page with ~70s ranking: https://hnrankings.info/33049729/