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Comment by garmaine | Hacker News Reader

China can't imprison people outside of its own borders.

Why not? It certainly could under the “foremost superpower” scenario... like the US can today (e.g. Assange, McAffe, Meng Wanzhou (Huawei CFO), ...

Even if so, I think it is a bit far fetched to image that China will go after pseudoanonymous commenters from 10 years plus in past on an American internet forum.

There's going to be more criticism of China in the next 10 years than in the past 30 years combined, as their power continues to expand. It's going to be an ocean of criticism.

China will have to go after a couple hundred million people. It's silly, to put it mildly.

You underestimate the power of AI and social credit like tools. Now add human-free justice systems and block lists to the mix.

Ridiculous. Software isn't magic. Hell, it's barely even impressive. Persecuting 100 million people outside your borders requires one thing: power. If China invades every nation and dissolves every other government then they can commit genocide on every other people. Until then, it's just one poster's deranged fantasy.

Good luck with any of that post-Manhattan Project.

It’s the Roko’s basilisk, China superpower edition.

Wrong:

> Since 2017, it says, at least 695 Uyghurs have been detained or deported to China from 15 countries.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/jun/25/b...

I’m not a PRC citizen.

It can, at the very least, harass and threaten people outside their borders, as is already done today in many Western countries against Chinese/Russian/Saudi-Arabian/Belarussian/etc dissidents living abroad. Modern democracies are wholly ill-equipped to deal with modern authoritarian governments and the means they have and are willing to use.

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