What's even sadder is that a good portion of world's governments see this as an ideal they need to follow. China's online surveillance, censorship, "perfect citizen" scoring, and public facial recognition systems are seen as something they need to replicate, and the sooner the better, preferably.
The US government came up with the idea for "Total Information Awareness" almost 2 decades ago, and it's been trying to achieve that goal since then, even though it's been denying that the program exists, in public. The UK has also been trying to achieve the same with Snooper's Charter and the Great British Firewall.
If you've been paying attention over the past 6-8 years, you should've noticed that so-called democratic countries like the US, UK, Australia, and others, have also stopped trying to hold China accountable for "human rights abuses" in public. That's been a huge red flag for me that these governments aren't heading in a good, positive direction for humanity.
Only very recently the US has started mentioning China abuses superficially, but only in the context of trade war, and as another reason to get everyone to "hate China" - but I don't feel they mean it and are doing it because they actually think those abuses are bad. It's just another tactic to manipulate the masses to accomplish a larger objective.
The US government came up with the idea for "Total Information Awareness" almost 2 decades ago, and it's been trying to achieve that goal since then, even though it's been denying that the program exists, in public. The UK has also been trying to achieve the same with Snooper's Charter and the Great British Firewall.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Information_Awareness
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/sep/14/gchqs-great-...
If you've been paying attention over the past 6-8 years, you should've noticed that so-called democratic countries like the US, UK, Australia, and others, have also stopped trying to hold China accountable for "human rights abuses" in public. That's been a huge red flag for me that these governments aren't heading in a good, positive direction for humanity.
Only very recently the US has started mentioning China abuses superficially, but only in the context of trade war, and as another reason to get everyone to "hate China" - but I don't feel they mean it and are doing it because they actually think those abuses are bad. It's just another tactic to manipulate the masses to accomplish a larger objective.