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  • Amnesty.org is a US Government organization created by Cold War era Intelligence agents. It is not an internationally recognized neutral organization and has no history of neutrality. They magically find issues with anyone that the US deems as an enemy, but has never criticized the US.

    HRRC I’ve never heard of, but for a generic NGO that appeared out of no where that posts opinion articles that contradict their own sources, they aren’t off to a good start. Also not an official organization of anywhere.

    USHMM Hosts no sources, has no researchers on staff, has no direct connections to china, and appears to be israeli owned and operated so nothing they’ve ever said or posted is likely to be true.


  • A) BlueMAGA exclusively refers to the 'Vote Blue no Matter Who" Crowd. It was a leftist term before you liberals even knew what MAGA was.

    B) There is no forced sterilization found. Some was alleged at one point, but there has never been evidence, including production of the individuals who claimed this happened, ever. The only source for this was anonymous reports from Radio Free Asia, the CIA propaganda outlet that also purports to believe China is stealing white children from tourists.

    C) Family Separation, aka taking kids into state care when their parents are arrested. This has been the only confirmed cases where this has happened, according to the report that I linked.

    D) Sexual Violence possibly happened… as it does in all criminal justice systems. We don’t know, there is no evidence of this, including production of anyone that has ever claimed this happened to them; but yes this is the most probable ‘abuse’ that exists. If you give prison guards power and privacy, they rape. This is true in every single country on Earth and is a reason that eventually justice systems need to be abolished.

    E) Forced Labor, aka, what every single country on earth does with prisoners during rehabilitation. Every single one. There isn’t a prison system where this doesn’t happen. It’s part of every psychologist’s recommendation for correcting criminal behavior.

    F) “Illegal deportation” isn’t a thing that can happen.

    G) ‘Cultural Genocide’ is a thing thanks to the US definition of genocide, but even that’s not actually being alleged since, you know, you can visit Xinjiang and actually speak Uyghur to nearly anyone there. It’s taught in every school in the region to all persons in the region, along with mandatory cultural festivals for students. Same as Cantonese being taught in that region, Tibetan taught in that region, and Mongolian taught in that region. Because of these facts no one even tries to claim cultural genocide anymore, and it doesn’t fit any other possible definition of genocide.

    Was the response to a half decade of terror attacks a bit extreme? Maybe, that’s subjective. And not something anyone in the US or Europe can criticize, given you people responded to terror attacks by killing 2+ million Arabs.


  • I did, extensively when it came out. That’s not genocide.

    If you actually cared to read the report what they allege they found is ‘systemic arrests of families of captured Uyghur terrorists,’ that ‘have nothing to do with their family member’s terrorism,’ and were held ‘without bond until trial.’ No genocide. No systemic abuse of all uyghurs. Less than 1% of an extremely small population involved.

    Given CHINA WAS VIOLENTLY ATTACKED FOR HALF A DECADE BY TURKISH UYGHURS PAID BY THE CIA, you might understand why families of those terrorists were, you know, investigated arrested and rehabilitated in the off chance they too were a part of a terror organization.

    That plus the multi-hundred billion dollar investment in Xinjiang resulting in one of the largest, fastest decreases in poverty rates in world history is why China hasn’t had another terror attack despite being bordered with Turkey, where the terror organization still exists.






  • World of Warcraft (yes it still has a bot problem, turns out it’s even more complicated of an analysis with hundreds of thousands of people playing the game wrong) unironically is the biggest game to do this and report on it. They track player movement, skill usage, cursor position on screen and likely a thousand more data points to determine if a real player could possibly do the things being done and auto flag and auto ban based on that.

    I believe VAC also has heuristic capability for FPSs if you enable it as a developer, as CS2 (at least, I think CS Source had a similar system) can detect unrealistic movements, perfectly timed clicks and all manner of movement scripts based solely on timing and not memory editing or other executable interference.

    But yes most games really don’t want to have an active cybersecurity team dedicated solely to studying game mechanics and deciding what is or isn’t realistic, and while heuristic analysis of memory (i.e. catching injected cheats) is also a thing, that also requires a security team capable of that; and as someone who once tried to get into the cybersecurity field all of that is expensive. You’re not getting a single person, much less a team, for less than 6 figures a year, and the amount of work generated that cannot be automated necessitates a fairly large team. CS2 gets around this a bit by having trusted players review iffy VAC detections which then feed into VACnet (which was released fairly recently) to have AI auto-review the heuristic detections based on known good reviews; but still the sheer volume of detections in a heuristic system (even well tuned ones) requires constant moderation.


  • No, Heuristic Analysis is deciding what data is likely, what data is unlikely, and what data is impossible, and then deciding, on that scale, the where the data the player is generating resides.

    In short: Humans have natural variations in everything they do, even the top 0.0001% of players. So let’s say you want to tackle aimbots in an FPS.

    The first thought would be track the number of headshots, and then if a player gets 100% headshots they’re labeled a cheater – but that isn’t accurate because of players like the streamer Shroud. So let’s be smarter. Let’s analyze the median player based on data from every player – not their headshots, not where they shoot, but how they move the cursor to the opponent to shoot.

    An aimbot will do a simple mathematical formula to decide how to aim at the target; i.e. if we imagine a 2d grid (centered at 0,0; squared limits of 100) on the screen and the player’s crosshair is at 0,0 and there’s an enemy at 50,50; then a bot would do something like (complete pseudocode:)

    While CrosshairPosition(y) does not equal EnemyPosition(y):
        Move mouse up (i.e. +y) by 1
        While CrosshairPosition(x) does not equal EnemyPosition(x):
            Move mouse right (i.e. +x) by 1
    Fire()
    

    This results in a predictable and perfectly diagonal move towards the enemy. Now actual humans cannot do this. It doesn’t matter how fine of motor skills they have, period. It is impossible for a human to even accidentally move like this. So we place this in the ‘impossible’ end of the spectrum.

    If a player does too many unlikely or impossible actions, flag them for review, and ban them that way. Or, just ban the ones doing objectively mathematically impossible things.

    Heuristic Data Analysis requires actual humans actually thinking about what is and isn’t possible in a game, understanding how cheats AND the game actually work, and then defining the spectrum, and then implementing and constantly tweaking it to minimize false positives while maximizing those that tweak their bots to get around the analysis.

    Because of this it’s expensive, relatively speaking, than paying a (statistically Israeli) anti cheat company to install spyware on their behalf.