since most western outlets are causally dismissive of the claims.

It is interesting you didn’t give any western media the benefit of the doubt, while giving CCP plenty.

After a quick google search, it seems like there are several court documents for Zhang’s case circling the internet:

• https://chinachange.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/张展-刑事判决书_-文字及照片.pdf
• https://www.nchrd.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Zhang-Zhan-indictment.pdf
• https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2021/01/blog-post_49.html?m=1
• https://cppc1989.blogspot.com/2019/12/cppc00831.html?m=1
• https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/renquanfazhi/ql1-11162020065301.html/ampRFA

There are two different versions, one judgement, one indictment (copy). Their contents seems to match, and they also match the reports of various media articles.

The indictment mentioned neither “the lie” nor “the truth”, which, in my mind, is probably why most media never reported it.

The document only mentioned:

故根据现查明的事实可以证实 张展通过微信、“twitter”(推特)、“YouTube”(油管)等网络媒介发布的相关文章、视频及接 受采访内容均与武汉市实际防控疫情的客观实际情况不符。

according to current known fact, the related article, videos, and interview by Zhang Zhan on wechat, twitter, youtube, differ from the objective truth of situations in Wuhan.

I was not able to find any court document from official source from China/CCP. Since all these articles are either photos or transcribed from photo, I don’t imagine the original documents are easy to find. It seems like the original document can be obtained from: https://wenshu.court.gov.cn/ (according to the title of the website, and Chinese government owned domain name), but they require personally identifiable information (like phone number, which is connected to ID in China) after I typed in 张展 (Zhang Zhan).

But since you clearly know more about China and CCP than I do, so you might want to give it a try.

According to https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/arrest, “arrest” means

If the police arrest someone, they take them away to ask them about a crime that they might have committed

And in https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/arrest

to take or keep in custody by authority of law

Dr. Li was taken to police station because the police has deemed his action is against the law.

He was later released because he signed a consent about “stop spreading misinformation”, which I showed in my response. We wouldn’t know how he will be treated if he refuse to sign such consent. But I might hypothesize that the police wouldn’t simply let him go.

And he has never spread any misinformation, the patient record he sent to his friend clearly indicated the patient has tested positive for SARS; and as we know later, the disease is indeed caused by SARS-cov2.

Yeah, the final ECMO was indeed controversial in Chinese community. Other than that, I have not heard any indication of mistreatment.

Given his high social status, and he said “一个健康的社会不该只有一种声音” (a healthy society shouldn’t only have only one voice), some people suspect CCP likely wanted him dead. But so far, I am not aware of any evidence that his death is man-made.

You know who else was arrested for “spreading misinformation”? The doctor who tried to warn his friends about covid privately, before the government took any action.

Source (in chinese): https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/simp/chinese-news-51371586

The form he filled out at police station, clearly stating his action is against the law:

couple related articles in english:

• https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-53077072
• https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51403795
• https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-55963896

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Wenliang

I don’t think he isn’t properly treated, at least according to wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Wenliang#Illness_and_death

There is a bench in New York central park dedicated to him: https://www.westsiderag.com/2023/02/07/central-park-bench-and-gathering-honor-covid-19-whistleblower . If you are near the central park, you can stop by to pay tribute to him.

What if I am allergic to cicadas? The article doesn’t seem to specify that case.

You didn’t translate the first character “干”, originally means “do”, and like in English, eventually evolved to “fuck”, like in “do me”.

To make things even worse, 干 also means dry, when using a different tone. And 爆 is also a cooking technique, where they stir fry diced (or sliced) meat with very high heat to cook, resulting in a crispy and dry exterior and juicy inside.

A famous joke is that 干爆鸭子 (when written) can simultaneous mean the delicious “crispy diced duck”, or “fuck the duck until it explodes”.

Chinese government are turning a blind eye on companies, but not on individuals, this is the primary evidence of state-sponsored capitalism.

Right on the front page of 996.icu, Chinese government are willing to prosecute a individual for the use of VPN for work, and confiscated all their income for the duration of their use of VPN (3 years, 1058k rmb, roughly 146k USD, which is more than most people’s life savings), with some additional fine.

Imaging if CCP seek to bankrupt every single company that disobey the law in the same manner, then 996 would never ever exists.

Maybe you can educate me on this, is there any prosecution that fine a company the entirety of its revenue during the 996 policy period?

Is it possible to share your source on “Every instance of someone taking a company to court over 996 has resulted in them winning.”?

It is definitely protest. But they choose these outfit to protest because they are comfortable, as oppose to vampires costume, which would also violate the dress code.

This is related to what OP is saying. These outfit already exists because of toxic work culture, they are taking it to the extreme.

Another woman said the best part of wearing her fluffy sweater to work is that she can head straight to bed once she gets home.

“It’s so convenient for both work and home. I have essentially reached a state where the office and my home have become one,” she said.

It is not protest for the sake of protest, but mostly “convenience”.

I feel like these clothes are the prefect match for the body type on the right. There are many clothes that might not fit the person the the right (also many wouldn’t fit the person on the left), but the ones in the comics are not these clothes.

Can you list some security/performance/feature comparison between matrix and discord? I don’t have the need for these class of product, but I am trying to get the hype behind discord.

why activity pub? I don’t think it is designed to do group chats.

General Tso died in 1885, yet General Tso’s Chicken is invented around 1970. They are almost 100 years apart.

And posted by the same account that was created yesterday!

I read through the first link you provided, it doesn’t align with your claim “TikTok OBJECTIVELY collects far lesser data than Big Tech apps and services.”

We go section by section

TikTok is worst here, collection all possible voice, face, environment data

Again TikTok infer as much information as possible, worst among all listed.

The later couple section did not mention tiktok, so I cannot compare it.

Finally

TikTok ranked number 3 in among all the social media, above clubhouse and twitter, just below facebook and instagram.

fair, thanks for explaining.

So in your analogy then Britain is the now China, and now U.S. is the then China? And TikTok is the opium released by China? Hence TikTok should be banned, if U.S. have the power to do so?

Excuse me, but I have a hard time seeing how is these two events are related?