Now I enjoy my visits to China, things are neat, people are nice, infrastructure is incredible, etc. However when I read these things I have to wonder... At what cost?
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I may have to read 1984 again to check... But it seems we have a modern day Oceania...
VOX China’s brutal crackdown on the Uighur Muslim minority, explained
BI China has started ranking citizens with a creepy 'social credit' system — here's what you can do wrong, and the embarrassing, demeaning ways they can punish you
HP Welcome To The Surveillance State: China’s AI Cameras See All
I may have to read 1984 again to check... But it seems we have a modern day Oceania...
“Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.” ― George Orwell, 1984
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China is a kleptocracy. We deal with them because they cut us in for a piece of the action.
--Hiram
We've just outsourced our scoring of citizens.
BBC: Facebook gives users trustworthiness score
I would also suggest that with widespread use of things like automated licence plate readers or all the security installed for the Super Bowl we would be shocked at how quickly the government could put together a very clear picture of our day from start to finish.
Strib: Extensive Super Bowl security has eyes everywhere
I am a bit of a fan for using cameras to catch and stop the law breakers, and protect the innocent.
Not such a fan of re-education camps. Except maybe for Angel Adams and others like her... :-)
I do find the Chinese model fascinating...
It seems that maybe 3,000 people run everything, and their leader moves forward through some form of meritocracy... And until now they have limited him to 2 terms.
And that group of country managers seem to be focused on keeping the majority of Chinese citizens happy, to ensure their power stays consistent and rebellion of any significance has no foundation..
My friends in China seem to be okay with the system for the most part. And as for the "good citizen" measures... They are "good citizens" (ie educated, jobs, law abiding, etc) so they see nothing wrong with it.
I mean who wants to protect and encourage "bad citizens"... :-)
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