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"However, equating Beijing to Washington in many of these specific [surveillance] issues is simply non-sensical authoritarian apologetics."

Here is where you[1] are dead wrong. Collecting the data is the original sin. Once our profiles are created it is only a matter of time before they will get abused. Yes, by a (future) evil government.

[1] (the author, probably the only one reading through those 100s of comments)

"I always ask people where they are from."

How about: "What do you DO?"




> you are dead wrong

So you're equating Beijing to Washington?


only in specific [surveillance] issues


You think Beijing and Washington are equal in terms of surveillance?


I'd estimate that the US has more data on you but china has more live surveillance.




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