State surveillance of citizens is growing all over the world, but it is a fact of daily life in China. People are developing mental tactics to distance themselves from it.
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The surveillance is somewhat less pervasive where I live, but the methods for selling people on the idea that it’s acceptable, inevitable, and for our own good are much the same the world over.

the thing that makes me go … 🤦‍♂️… Is hearing some CS graduate or “Engineer” saying you don’t have privacy online, forget it…

Big tech really tried them to behave as their spokesmen

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