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China does seem to be emulating the West - not it's books, but its policies.

I reject the accusation of "whataboutism". Let's take those in order. "Why have I made 5~6 comments in the thread?" It's an interesting topic that I've spent over 5 years researchi…

This is a good illustration of American brainwashing. In the Chinese system, everyone is informed - but is not allowed to question the systems' structure. In the United States, pre…

I think the point of coldtea's comment is that: - We're being inconsistent with our criticism, unwilling to apply it as a universal standard - We're talking about others (Chinese) …

False equivalence AND conspiracy theory? Lol. In order... "False equivalence": Nope, not saying they are equivalent. "Conspiracy theory": Nope, read the reporting on the Snowden do…

Definitely. Remember when the Snowden documents disclosed the Utah facilities keeping ~5 years of every communication record of every person, processed into the most actionable met…

Looks like.

China could probably go much further. In America, you're shut down and surveilled for demanding systemic changes to the system (just try to build a movement in the United States fo…

China's population was 1.386 billion in 2017. Do you mean 10% of the subpopulation pertinent to the region?

I'd genuinely love to hear your analysis of the American surveillance state.

Reminds me of the United State's lockdown of Middle Easterners, and the surveillance police state that got legally empowered by post-9/11 doctrine.

I don't get if this is supposed to be a scandal? This sounds like a mild version of what we've built in the United States.

Wait doesn't the United States track essentially every person - both in its country and every other for the purposes of mass surveillance and mass propaganda? And indiscriminately …

Next headline "America Could Use Medical Data to Blackmail Chinese, Chinese Report Says"

I mean, I wouldn't trade my life for almost any other life - even a life of greater wealth and power. But to take the point you've made and work through its conclusions: Hacker New…

The cartoon at the top of this article (squinty eyes, fatty short figure) makes me uncomfortable, as it edges pretty close to old racist depictions of Asians and Blacks from half a…

In the United States: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Fly_List#Controversy_and_cr... > Among the complaints about the No Fly List is the use of credit reports in calculating the r…

See also: DoD's online propaganda-at-scale research, and the AI techniques behind https://www.darpa.mil/program/social-media-in-strategic-comm... One of the key focal points of the…

That's amazing. I always assumed that the Hajj to Mecca was the largest.

If you read the reporting on the subject, you'll learn it is from government pressure. I agree with you, and think its endemic of the app ecosystem.

It mentions it in the article. Supporters keep putting it back up and Apple continuously takes it down (under pressure of the US gov). For context, the app was created to track hum…

Reminds me of Apple's censorship of US assassinations: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/538kan/apple-just... There's a reason why centrally curated platforms are dangerou…