China embraces its surveillance state. The US pretends it doesn’t have one

At least China is honest about its surveillance dystopia. In Trump’s America, we pretend Palantir isn’t worse.

China embraces its surveillance state. The US pretends it doesn’t have one Surveillence-camera.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=410&h=230

China embraces its surveillance state. The US pretends it doesn’t have one Surveillence-camera.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=410&h=230

The parallels between how the two countries control their minority populations via technology are chilling. In China, no one has yet to emerge from the Communist Party’s largest concentration camps (sorry, “re-education” camps) in the northwest province of Xinjiang, said to be holding 1 million people. Suspected subversives are captured by an all-pervasive digital dragnet integrated with Smart City data and a grid of checkpoints, which creates a prison state to oppress Islam. The checkpoints allow police to ensure that that the Muslim ethnic minority of Uighurs have a government app installed on their smartphones that transmits all their data, allowing law enforcement to patrol Islamic religious practices.
Meanwhile, ethnic divisions are cleaving America into a democracy on the brink. Righteous outrage opposes cultish defense over the semantics of “concentration camps” here on the US/Mexico border, fueling a furious debate over ongoing family separation and torture-grade conditions for unaccompanied children. The US immigration apparatus has failed to maintain adequate records of detainees and separations, and proposals of forced DNA sampling have been floated. Our nation’s cruelty-as-deterrent policy against the influx of refugees fleeing failed states harkens America back to its interment days and our own penchant for human-rights abuses.

https://qz.com/1670686/the-us-has-a-lot-in-common-with-chinas-surveillance-state/

China embraces its surveillance state. The US pretends it doesn’t have one

China embraces its surveillance state. The US pretends it doesn’t have one

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