Welcome to Let's Talk Media! In this EXPLOSIVE, MUST-LISTEN episode, your host Vedant Akhauri and guest Matteo Velardo dive into the unseen forces shaping our media landscape and the DARK REALITY of China's human rights abuses and its global impact.
🚨 WARNING: This episode delves into mature and potentially upsetting content, including human rights abuses, persecution, and torture. Listener discretion is strongly advised. 🚨
We're pulling back the curtain on how China's influence reaches far beyond its borders, affecting major corporations and silencing critical voices.
In this episode, we discuss:
- The NBA & Blizzard Controversy: How financial interests led to apologies for supporting Hong Kong protests and the punishment of a pro-gamer for speaking out. Was it a lose-lose situation?
- Falun Gong: Yoga, Propaganda, and Organ Harvesting? Learn the truth about the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. Learn how this spiritual practice, initially supported, became "the enemy" under Xi Jinping's anti-religious campaign, leading to widespread arrests, beatings, torture, and alleged organ harvesting. The censorship used to hide these is chilling.
- Orwellian Surveillance & The Great Firewall: Is BIG BROTHER Watching you? Explore China's unprecedented levels of surveillance, including advanced facial recognition and its "Social Credit System." We reveal how a low social credit score can limit your freedom and how the government covers up historical events like the Tiananmen Square massacre by erasing them from the internet. Even a Winnie the Pooh meme can get you in trouble!
- The Uyghur Muslim Crisis - Re-education Camps & Cultural Erasure: Delve into the disturbing reality of Uyghur Muslims subjected to brainwashing and forced re-education. Learn how this system aims to strip away their culture and rebuild them as "perfect Han Chinese" individuals. A single perceived problem can lead to imprisonment and torture. We also discuss the kidnapping and "re-education" of the Panchen Lama, a Tibetan Buddhist leader.
- The Hong Kong Protests: Learn the complex history of Hong Kong's semi-autonomous status and the controversial extradition bill that sparked massive protests. We explore how Chinese propaganda blamed "outside influence" like America, and how the COVID-19 pandemic inadvertently shifted the global spotlight away from this critical struggle.
This episode explores the intricate web of media, politics, and human rights. In addition to our discussion, we urge you to do your own research to come up with your own conclusions on these profound issues impacting millions.
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Background Music: Lightless Dawn by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3982-lightless-dawn/
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Date of Recording: February 14, 2020
