No. Stones (and the remainder pounds) are only for human weight.
Use of pounds for the weight of anything else has long been defunct in the UK. I can't think of any exceptions - maybe there are some. Even for human weight, its use is fading out in favour of kg.

And, no, they should not get the contract for new NHS digitisation that was being touted by the PM recently.

> Their citizens have ZERO freedom of expression/speech

Be careful. Your ignorance is showing. You clearly know nothing about what living in China is like and the freedoms in the country.

Nb Slashdot itself is a social media platform of sorts (though I've yet to see anyone use any of those features). It discusses fervently anti-China topics such as this and many others, including the obvious ones. Slashdot isn't blocked by the GFW and anyone in mainland China can take part in the discussions.

Also, it's perfectly possible to use Google, Facebook, twitter/X or anything else from within mainland China - yes, without a vpn. This is because not all internet connections have the GFW applied to them. The GFW is more of a mechanism to make the services a pita to access and use for the majority of Internet connections and so not be commercially viable. What does that tell you about the use of the word "banned" and the legality of using those services from with mainland China?

Tiktok ARE doing something different in the USA than other social media sites. They're doing a lot more do comply with the demands made of it and the concerns rooted in blatant sinophobia or Mccarthyism. They've gone over and above, but it isn't enough and wasn't ever going to be. It was always going to boil down to being Chinese, and the demand would be to not be.
The USA government has just shown how pathetic it is and how meaningless its constitution is. However, they've done that numerous times in the past so no surprise there, I suppose.

On the mainland anyway... I hear HK was hit.

Having said that, the ordering system used in mainland China is fairly dysfunctional on the best of days. Well, you can order OK, and you get your stuff, but the screen that says if your order is queued or ready to pickup has (to my memory) never worked. The orders spend a licosecond on the queuing side and then go straight to the ready side.
If that is used for some kind of performance metric, then they are all doing very well (to quote Mr Grace).

Is that as bad as Fujitsu (icl?) and the horizon scandal?

This isn't the first, so you could easily look at any of the other many installations around the world and come up with some reasonable guesses.

Seriously?

> But right now we're talking about tictock: can we talk about Winnie the Pooh there? Uyghurs? Tiananmen Square?

You can talk about all those things here. This is social media of sorts and is wide open from China, and it can be a cesspit of sinophobia at times, not to mention plain ignorance.

Do you know the same isn't the case on tiktok? I'd suggest the Chinese government wouldn't care, since tiktok inside China has a completely different user base and even algorithm - not that it's content is any more wholesome, imo. When the USA government describes the Chinese version, it sounds nothing like what it actually is like. Tiktok isn't the only such platform in China too - alipay and wechat both have something similar. Wechat's is more wholesome, imo. I've not experienced alipay's, but my impression is it is also quite uncontroversial. Tiktok, though, is full of women flaunting themselves, car/bike accidents which have to be serious/fatal, and other dashcam stuff, airline "Karen" moments (look set up to me). Really, none of them are good, imo. Wechat's is the least objectionable, but I'm sure some western companies would complain about the number of TV clips from Friends and other US TV shows.

You seem to be agreeing that they are lies. Fair enough. I wonder if you have any references for your claim.

I don't quite see what you're suggesting.

China has allowed tiktok inside China but it has to follow certain rules/etc. that they consider beneficial for everyone, ie week the algorithm to be healthier, and store Chinese data inside China, etc.

I don't see where China are saying that the USA should not do the same thing.

Wrong argument. The correct argument is to question who actually made up this "record", and what's the real truth behind it. Most of the organisations a typically quoted are just thin covers for the CIA who lie their arses off, and then there's the western media who aren't much better.

You neglect to mention that China was a developing nation, and technically still is. Such nations are typically given a free pass, and it is usual that it actually benefits the original manufacturers. For example, no way would Microsoft Windows be so pervasive if they enforced their IP in China, but everyone got used to it so now Microsoft are raking it in, and any alternatives have a huge upstream fight, even with a government that could largely dictate what people use, just by mandating it in the government.

Lol, play by our rules like we've coerced most others into doing, or else take your ball and go home.
It sounds to me like the 2nd option is an option and nothing at all like a bully.
Actually, you kind of have it backwards.