China’s all-seeing surveillance network

Post by lightbyte » Thu, Sep 20, 2018, 1:09 PM UTC

mojuba wrote: post #50

ffwacom wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Doubt, there's no pure communist states left, they all fell after killing a bunch of their citizens by "knowing what's best". The economy is a chaotic system and any earnest attempt at top down control will fail, let alone communism which historically was more about transferring power to your friends than any real belief in an ideology.

Just FYI (has been said a gazillion times on the Internet): no state on this planet was ever communist. Communism is a society without money, no such thing existed on a state level anywhere. The states you are referring to were 100% socialist, i.e. no private property in any form or share with very very few exceptions; money tightly controlled by the state; all businesses are state-owned. The comment above though pro…

Post by lightbyte » Thu, Sep 20, 2018, 1:11 PM UTC

ffwacom wrote: post #53

mojuba wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just FYI (has been said a gazillion times on the Internet): no state on this planet was ever communist. Communism is a society without money, no such thing existed on a state level anywhere. The states you are referring to were 100% socialist, i.e. no private property in any form or share with very very few exceptions; money tightly controlled by the state; all businesses are state-owned. The comment above though pro…

A society without money is even more absurd.

Post by bcaa7f3a8bbc » Thu, Sep 20, 2018, 1:24 PM UTC

crispyambulance wrote: post #27

Obviously the camera system can track humans walking around, but does it actually identify specific individuals? What does that number in the box with the chinese text mean? Are they able to use facial recognition _everywhere_ and thus record where everyone is or, more importantly, was? I am skeptical that this can pulled off with current technology? Can it?

Post by kevcampb » Thu, Sep 20, 2018, 1:26 PM UTC

crispyambulance wrote: post #27

Obviously the camera system can track humans walking around, but does it actually identify specific individuals? What does that number in the box with the chinese text mean? Are they able to use facial recognition _everywhere_ and thus record where everyone is or, more importantly, was? I am skeptical that this can pulled off with current technology? Can it?

Post by bcaa7f3a8bbc » Thu, Sep 20, 2018, 1:28 PM UTC

TheSpiceIsLife wrote: post #9

> Every step she takes, every one of her actions big or small — even what she thinks — can be tracked and judged. [emphasis added] Can anybody shed upon how these Social Credit systems would be able to track what a person thinks ?