• Water Bowl Slime
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    311 year ago

    Isn’t the city with the most mass surveillance actually London? Course when it happens in the west, it’s about protection from terrorism but when it happens in the east, it IS terrorism.

    • 陆船。
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      141 year ago

      Yes London has the most CCTVs, I wanna say per capita, but the unit might be per square km. It’s also a 5 eye county and you can post racist boomer memes on Reddit so the surveillance doesn’t count.

    • I think the British surveillance state is more panopticon than real surveillance at this point considering massive cuts to all public sector jobs including the people who would have looked at the tape. I doubt they even had money to modernise in the last 2 decades. Maybe I’m optimistic about the British ‘defunding the police’ by being austerity cretins tho. Could be the only thing they fund anymore

    • @Beat_da_Rich@lemmygrad.ml
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      101 year ago

      Idk if it’s still the case, but just a few years ago there was a study that showed that there were more surveillance cameras per capita in the US, not China. So once again, projection from the West.

  • Marxism-Fennekinism
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    1 year ago

    If you live in the West, which their audience obviously do, China may or may not be able to spy on you (chances are they don’t give a shit unless you’re a high profile person in politics/military/technology/etc), but even if they did and saw something they don’t like, it’s not like they can fucking do anything. People in the West should we way more worried about surveillance from the West.

  • @Mzuark@lemmygrad.ml
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    171 year ago

    Personally, I’ve always believe the government is watching us. Nothing that’s happened in the last 20 years has convinced me otherwise. Trouble is, people only seem to care when they’re told that we do it more than China or whoever the enemy of the week is.

  • Lil Kitai
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    101 year ago

    Bruh pretending like white people/Westerner shit smell nicer than shits of colour.