Remember that you need an id to get a phone number in most countries. And how hot big IT is for your phone number. Aside from UKUSA and NSA programs doing way more.

The coping tactics are almost the same here, if you’re not a privacy nut.

Not to say it’s as bad as in China, especially here it’s for money (though not for me) and against terrorism. But the definition of terrorism can quickly change with someone like trump in power.

almost every participant brought up the “lack of moral quality” of their fellow citizens, whom they said behaved like children with little moral sense.

In the context of this shame-inducing narrative, surveillance is framed as a welcome solution to enforce the rules by punishing violators and getting people to behave better. According to the participants, moral shortcomings are responsible for the “century of humiliations” that China has experienced since the Opium Wars and the Japanese invasions; according to this discourse, “civilizing” the population will enable China to gain the international recognition it so ardently desires.

What a fucking victim blaming asshole you have to be to suggest we need dragnet surveillance everywhere because there was an epidemic of opium addiction

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The surveillance is somewhat less pervasive where I live, but the methods for selling people on the idea that it’s acceptable, inevitable, and for our own good are much the same the world over.

Honestly the censorship and single narrative is way more concerning

Remember when Elon wanted to make twitter into a super-app? Back then? In the past?

not like the west isnt doing it too, but that gives me the creeps about china too.