Posted on 12/10/2019 11:22:20 AM PST by Mount Athos
China is developing a new high-tech system of mass surveillance and coercion aimed suppressing political dissent among its 1.4 billion people, while forcing American and Western businesses to conform to the government’s communist policies if they want to operate there.
The massive system has been tested in several major Chinese cities and uses millions of surveillance cameras linked to supercomputers containing massive databases. Face and voice recognition technology then identifies and monitors people with the goal of controlling behaviors that range from dissident political activity to jaywalking, ostensibly as part of a financial credit monitoring system similar to those used in the West.
As part of the stepped-up surveillance, the Chinese government announced this month that all who purchase SIM cards for mobile phones must first produce a facial recognition print.
The official National Public Credit Information Center, reported last year that a total of 23 million people were “discredited” and barred from traveling by air or rail. Another 17.5 million Chinese could not purchase airline tickets, while 5.5 million were barred from buying high-speed train tickets — all due to poor social credit scores.
The government earlier this year introduced a mobile application called “Study Xi, Strong Country” that requires party and state employees to study daily Mr. Xi’s speeches and other ideological writings.
“The application also enables digital surveillance because it is linked to users’ personal information, and metrics regarding users’ performance can be accessed by government offices, schools, and private companies to sanction employees and students who earn too few points,” the commission report said.
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Democrat Party approves
Here’s what they do when you criticize them on Social Media:
When You Criticize The Cops In Communist China
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vspukvqxTSg
This poor schmuck had too much to drink and was mouthing off about the cops.
They were listening.
Coming soon to this country. The Chinese are just the guinea pigs.
Keep voting them into power and it's a sure bet they will work FB and Goog to bring this to our USA.
The Democrats will pay the Chinese a lot to install this system in the US. They must be having orgasms thinking about it.
We already have it, it just works differently. It all starts with political correctness. Then they take away rights you thought you had enshrined in the constitution.
Police in China on the streets will soon have special glasses that will conduct facial recognition of individuals they look at within crowds. On the spot, the police will be able to access all government information about that individual.
Police will also be given cash bonuses when they find a “wanted” person through such methods.
Three comments:
1. How is it that the western media is not raising a tremendous and continuous stink about this “1984”-type method of social control? Don’t they think the Chinese deserve some degree of personal autonomy and privacy in how they lead their lives.
2. Ditto Comment 1 for the United States government, especially the State Department.
3. Why are the western IT companies enabling this nightmare of social control not being more publically named, shamed, and denounced? If there was ever a justification for a BDS campaign, this is it.
Hillary’s wet dream. Apologies for the disturbing mental picture.
We already have it in America.
Orwell was 35 years ahead of the time
Buy stock in those Chicom companies that make counterfeit Mickey Mouse masks.
It was a spooky...but as I said,harmless...experience,an experience I've never had anywhere else on earth (and I've been to some pretty funky places).
It was freaking scary to watch.
Think it cannot happen here? Wrong. Illinois already wants to deny FOID and conceal/carry applicants based on social media posts.
I expect any minute now the bastards will be at my door wanting the weapons I lost in a tragic canoe accident two summers ago.....
Isn’t that why ILLary wears Depends?
1. They like this sort of thing.
2. Ditto
3. Ditto
I’ve been saying that for a few years now. We already live in one giant re-education camp, thanks to a liberal-controlled media and social media.
Exactly. Trump supporters get outed in CA, then get fired. Same holds for those refusing to use fake pronouns.
Yup our “legal system” is what does it.
So many laws makes everyone a lawbreaker, if you step out of line too far for the powers that be they go after you under plausible deniability of ‘wanting justice’.
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