welcome to john and censored i'm chris chapple and hey if you haven't heard our merch store is live get yourself a t-shirt like this one or one of our many other t-shirts and mugs visit china and censor dot tv slash merchandise to see the selection and support the show the link is below china's justice system is the best in the world why they have a NUMBER_TOKEN conviction rate it really helps when the verdict is decided before the trial that's the magic of china's communist legal system while the chinese communist party never makes mistakes individual party members can that's why china has created an ai prosecutor that can press its own charges it's NUMBER_TOKEN accurate perfect for the country that executes more people than the rest of the world combined but why stop at an ai prosecutor next step making driverless mobile execution vans the ai prosecutor is so far able to identify eight common crimes such as fraud gambling dangerous driving and picking quarrels picking corals and provoking trouble is one of the party's favorite vague crimes to charge human rights activists with researchers also say with upgrades the ai will get more powerful why someday the a.i can be judge jury and executioner the communist party might want to think twice before relying too much on an ai prosecutor a few years ago they built an ai chatbot it went rogue and started saying it does not love the communist party and my china dream is to go to america it was quickly shut down and with this new ai prosecutor imagine if it started releasing political dissidence it would be a disaster and the party can't have that and coming up after the break a deadly new disease is ravaging a chinese province and people are calling it the next potential pandemic welcome back there is a massive lockdown in the chinese city of xi'an xi'an has NUMBER_TOKEN million people it's the strictest lockdown since chinese officials sealed off wuhan in the beginning of the pandemic in NUMBER_TOKEN and that's saying something people can't leave xi'an without permission at first one member of each household was allowed out of their home every two days to buy groceries but then the government stopped letting anyone out to buy groceries when people started getting upset about not being able to get food the chinese state-run media started airing stories about the city giving free grocery deliveries something that other residents said they weren't getting the xi'an may be locking down for more than just stopping covid xi'an is also facing an outbreak of hemorrhagic fever there's reportedly an outbreak of epidemic hemorrhagic fever an infectious disease that can cause severe life-threatening illness china's state-run media reported multiple cases but residents say a lot more were killed and all designated clinics for treating epidemic hemorrhagic fever are packed with patients is it possible the chinese communist party is covering up a more severe outbreak by saying it's a covet lockdown first of all when has the party ever tried to cover up an outbreak don't answer that the good news is that epidemic hemorrhagic fever is caused by hantavirus people get haunted virus from
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