Look up what China did in Hangzhou for a terrifying future state if Democrats get their way with this tech over time. It's easy to hold Obama's hopes for this in contempt (as with so much else), but there will be more Obama's in the future. They're already exporting some of their systems to totalitarian places that have fallen in line with leftism/globalism,
like Australia.
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The rest of Surveillance State is devoted to cataloging and analyzing the ways in which Chinese authorities use facial recognition, social media and consumer data, biometrics, and a vast network of cameras to subdue and, in the case of China's Uyghur population, persecute its people. The book opens by recounting the story of Uyghur poet and filmmaker Tahir Hamut. Hamut describes how his family was brought to a police station to have their faces analyzed, their blood drawn, and their irises scanned. As Hamut watches other men in his town gradually being rounded up and sent elsewhere, he begins to realize that the police were surveilling his family to make it easier to locate and arrest him. Hamut takes to laying out a set of clothes every night before bed, in case the police suddenly arrive to take him away. He also starts exploring ways to help his family escape China.
Such horrors, especially those committed against the Uyghurs in Xinjiang, have been well documented by journalists and academics. What Chin and Lin offer is a new perspective on the historical context of such surveillance. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is hardly the only state government to use technology for national-security purposes. Chin and Lin point out that in 2012, Barack Obama announced plans to harness big data. (The "Big Data Research and Development Initiative" invested $200 million across six federal agencies.) Where the CCP differs is in its profound belief in the capacity of technology to literally re-engineer society and re-program its people. This belief isn't new. In its early days, the CCP used lower-tech methods such as extensive propaganda, forced indoctrination, and political campaigns like the Cultural Revolution; reeducation through labor wasn't outlawed until 2013. (Xinjiang's internment camps remain a glaring exception.)
They're not dumb, but are nefarious. Hey,
it's efficient, and can resolve double parking issues!
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Four characteristics of the Chinese surveillance are truly unique. First, it has adopted the model of "distributed surveillance," which is a de-concentrated system of surveillance that assigns tasks of surveillance to a multitude of organizations and actors both horizontally (across different bureaucracies and organizations) and vertically (at every level of the state). This multilayered surveillance apparatus consists of multiple state security and non-security agencies and organizations (such as state-owned enterprises, universities, and neighborhood committees) and a large number of informants.
Second, it is a top-down system with effective coordination performed by a specialized Communist Party bureaucracy, the "political-legal affairs committee," at every level of the state. All other dictatorships, including former communist regimes, lack such a bureaucracy.
Third, the country's formal security agencies responsible for surveillance are small and lean. Total number of uniformed police in China is about 2 million. Local data show that the domestic security agency, The First Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security, probably has about 100,000 agents. By comparison, the Stasi in East Germany employed 91,000 full-time officers, equivalent to 0.6 percent of the population; the same ratio would result in a secret police of 8.4 million in China!
Lastly, China has not only deployed advanced technology, but also developed well-honed surveillance tactics that focus on priority targets, both individuals and venues. The combination of labor-intensive tactics and advanced technology makes surveillance with Chinese characteristics more effective.
Without a doubt, the Democrats' embrace of high crime/zero punishments for offenders in big cities today is part of a strategy to coerce the public to accept more state surveillance 'tools.' Never, ever vote for a democrat.
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