Imagine if China did this
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China has massively increased laws specifically to prevent it. Premises require explicit and direct permission from an individual in order to use facial recognition, facing steam criminal fines for non compliance. This came into effect on June 1st of this year.
The UK (i live here) is a mass surveillance hellscape.
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Bypassing paywalls needs to be a basic skill you know how to do in the year of our internet 2025.
I don’t know why you think the laws magically don’t also apply to the government itself. If your take is going to always be “yeah but the evil communists aren’t going to be applying that to their own government” then there is literally never going to be any convincing you of anything being better in China, ever, because your baseline is always going to be disbelief.
but as far as I know from others there’s more surveillance in China than the UK.
The fuck are you on about mate? The UK is the surveillance capital of the world. China is absolutely fucking better than us in this regard. They have consistently tightened privacy laws of late, beginning with PIPL in 2021 which is as strong if not stronger than the EU’s GDPR law because it does not provide a “legitimate interest” processing scope and they have been increasing privacy with the new tighter laws this year.
They are absolutely better than the US and UK in this regard, and because the EU is bureaucratically slow China is now pulling ahead in privacy laws. Some of the new EU laws currently under consideration are looking towards China’s implementation because they are becoming first to implement and thus leading other countries on implementation.
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Is the mass surveillance in the room with us right now?
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the secretive, absolutist panopticon is neither secretive, absolutist or panoptic.
it’s actually about loving your neighbor under the watchful eye of an all knowing God.
In a totally, not at all related note, journalist Jonathan Cook was recently pulled over by police, addressed by name, and asked why he was driving so far from his home city of Bristol (he was about 1.5hrs drive away visiting family) seemingly in an attempt to intimidate him by making it clear that he was under constant UK police surveillance.
“Eating lambs is not about eating lambs!” - says wolf.
