They are already monitoring the chat apps. If you say unseemly things, expect this: https://twitter.com/intypython/status/1200466904734785536?s=...
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Chinese telecoms must use "AI and other technical means" to identify phone users
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#12I searched for the law. They need a photo id for a new phone number to reduce phone scams. I think it is good.
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#13Does this affect foreigners? If I have a AT&T plan, it should work out-of-box in China via roaming? Hope that is the case...
Verizon TravelPass covers China for $10/day
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#14When I was younger I wanted to visit China. Currently I have no plans to ever do so, China is a scary country.
Ok, but please don't post unsubstantive comments to HN, and definitely not nationalistic flamebait.
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#15When a nation is a superpower, it is able to influence the behavior of weaker states. It will exert its influence for a variety of reasons, but it is inevitable that with power comes the exertion of influence. China will use its power to prop up autocratic regimes across the world and export its technology and methods to make such autocracy possible and sustainable. China represents a threat to global democracy which…
Just saying, historically Han ethnicity is pretty bad at expansion and exert influence overseas otherwise WWIII would happen many years ago. Of course no one knows if that’ll change as China rises in modern age
They will fail, but not without lots of damage to the world and themselves. All thanks to Xi Jinping's expansionist ambition.
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#16When a nation is a superpower, it is able to influence the behavior of weaker states. It will exert its influence for a variety of reasons, but it is inevitable that with power comes the exertion of influence. China will use its power to prop up autocratic regimes across the world and export its technology and methods to make such autocracy possible and sustainable. China represents a threat to global democracy which…
Without agreeing or disagreeing with them, we should accept that people have said exactly the same things about the USA, about the Soviet Union, about Russia, about Britain... And on and on.
I am not trying to play “whatabout,” but I do ask: Is there anything different about China’s behaviour as a superpower? Or are we just seeing a shift in which superpowers have world influence?
At the moment I write this, the front page of HN has an article about China and facial recognition... But also an article about US schools monitoring student emails.
Which seems to me like training a generation of citizens to understand that they live in a prison without walls.
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#17All: if you comment in this thread, make sure your comments are substantive and that they stay off the nationalistic indignation track. That is all too easy to fall into, and it's off topic here.
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#18When a nation is a superpower, it is able to influence the behavior of weaker states. It will exert its influence for a variety of reasons, but it is inevitable that with power comes the exertion of influence. China will use its power to prop up autocratic regimes across the world and export its technology and methods to make such autocracy possible and sustainable. China represents a threat to global democracy which…
I can think of another superpower that’s been propping up “democratic” regimes across the world, not hypothetically, but for decades.
(Apparently dang won’t like this comment, and rightly so, so this will be my last comment on this thread.)
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#19Are we any different? I want to think so but drivers licenses and passports are scanned photos. The California DMV even sells this information.
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#20This doesn't seem much different from Spain, where I need to scan my passport to buy a SIM, and they already have my face on record?