Digital surveillance is omnipresent in China. Here’s how citizens are coping (theconversation.com)

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[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 33 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

almost every participant brought up the “lack of moral quality” of their fellow citizens, whom they said behaved like children with little moral sense.

In the context of this shame-inducing narrative, surveillance is framed as a welcome solution to enforce the rules by punishing violators and getting people to behave better. According to the participants, moral shortcomings are responsible for the “century of humiliations” that China has experienced since the Opium Wars and the Japanese invasions; according to this discourse, “civilizing” the population will enable China to gain the international recognition it so ardently desires.

What a fucking victim blaming asshole you have to be to suggest we need dragnet surveillance everywhere because there was an epidemic of opium addiction

[-] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

Sounds like the patriot act in America. Something bad happened so the govt said “hey we’re just gonna go ahead and spy on you to keep everyone safe”

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