China takes surveillance to new heights with flock of robotic doves • Hacker News Board

Re: China takes surveillance to new heights with flock of robotic doves

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Post by intuitionist » Mon, Dec 31, 2018, 7:45 PM UTC

bassman9000 wrote: post #45

intuitionist wrote: post #30

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No, it's imprisoning two million people in prisons.

You just made political or religious dissidence equivalent to murder, thieving, or tax evasion.

About a quarter of the people in US correctional institutions at any given time haven't been convicted of anything --- they're awaiting trial and can't pay bail. Another quarter or so are locked up for drug or public order offenses, not violent or property crimes.

I'm glad that America has strong protections for political and religious freedom. I wish China had such protections as well. But we still imprison two or three times as many people per capita for bad reasons as China does.

Re: China takes surveillance to new heights with flock of robotic doves

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Post by porphyrogene » Tue, Jan 01, 2019, 9:01 PM UTC

dang wrote: post #41

porphyrogene wrote: post #19

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Your ability to be blind to a challenge to your convictions is impressive in its own way.

Personal attacks, such as you posted here and in your comment upthread, are not allowed on HN and will get you banned here. Nationalistic flamewar is not welcome either. Please edit these things out of your posts to HN and follow the site guidelines, even when someone else is breaking them. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

My attack was neither personal nor "nationalistic". It is against the HN guidelines to respond to comments that you find inappropriate:

> Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did.

Re: China takes surveillance to new heights with flock of robotic doves

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Post by porphyrogene » Tue, Jan 01, 2019, 9:04 PM UTC

simplecomplex wrote: post #25

porphyrogene wrote: post #19

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Your ability to be blind to a challenge to your convictions is impressive in its own way.

What conviction? China is an authoritarian state, I’m not disputing that at all. My only conviction is that these articles are upvoted based on anti-Chinese sentiment, not on any real basis for learning something. Especially considering tech like drones and facial recognition aren’t being used by China any differently than how other countries like US, UK, etc. use them.

The US, UK and other countries are using facial recognition to round up and re-educate ethnic groups? You have invented a lie of convenience and sold it to yourself.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/08/world/asia/china-uighur-m...