Human Rights

American Tech’s Hidden Role in China’s Digital Prison: Who’s Really Enabling Oppression?

By Economics Desk | September 9, 2025

Behind China’s vast surveillance network lies a troubling truth: American technology companies have built and designed much of the infrastructure enabling Beijing’s human rights abuses against its own people.

China boasts the world's most extensive digital surveillance regime, an Orwellian system that monitors millions yet remains invisible to many. But beneath this facade lies a sobering reality: American tech firms played a pivotal role in engineering this digital cage that suffocates freedom and crushes dissent inside the People's Republic.When Innovation Enables Oppression, Who Holds Responsibility?Take the story of Yang Guoliang, a man trapped not just by local land disputes in Jiangsu province but by an ever-watchful state apparatus fueled by U.S.-developed surveillance technology. Yang's every move is tracked; his home rigged with cameras that cast him as a virtual...

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