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China's Surveillance State Should Scare Everyone The country is perfecting a vast network of digital espionage as a means of social control—with implications for democracies worldwide. Imagine a society in which you are rated by the government on your trustworthiness. Your “citizen score” follows you wherever you go. A high score allows you access to faster internet service or a fast-tracked visa to Europe. If you make political posts online without a permit, or question or contradict the government’s official narrative on current events, however, your score decreases. To calculate the score, private companies working with your government constantly trawl through vast amounts of your social media and online shopping data. When you step outside your door, your actions in the physical world are also swept into the dragnet: The government gathers an enormous collection of information through the video cameras placed on your street and all over your city. If you commit a crime—or simply jaywalk—facial recognition algorithms will match video footage of your face to your photo in a national ID database. It won’t be long before the police show up at your door. This society may seem dystopian, but it isn’t farfetched: It may be China in a few years. The country is racing to become the first to implement a pervasive system of algorithmic surveillance. Harnessing advances in artificial intelligence and data mining and storage to construct detailed profiles on all citizens, China’s communist party-state is developing a “citizen score” to incentivize “good” behavior. A vast accompanying network of surveillance cameras will constantly monitor citizens’ movements, purportedly to reduce crime and terrorism. While the expanding Orwellian eye may improve “public safety,” it poses a chilling new threat to civil liberties in a country that already has one of the most oppressive and controlling governments in the world. China’s evolving algorithmic surveillance system will rely on the security organs of the communist party-state to filter, collect, and analyze staggering volumes of data flowing across the internet. Justifying controls in the name of national security and social stability, China originally planned to develop what it called a “Golden Shield” surveillance system allowing easy access to local, national, and regional records on each citizen. This ambitious project has so far been mostly confined to a content-filtering Great Firewall, which prohibits foreign internet sites including Google, Facebook, and The New York Times. According to Freedom House, China’s level of internet freedom is already the worst on the planet. Now, the Communist Party of China is finally building the extensive, multilevel data-gathering system it has dreamed of for decades.  Honesty is the best policy. |
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We live in "Free" world for years and take for granted that freedom is free. Chinese people have been controlled by their government for years, but they are silent because they don't know how to rebel. They don't have the courage and knowledge how to fight back for their "rights". They thought the life is supposed to be controlled by government. Just like the "emperor" could control people's lives. North Korea is also a communist country. People in North Korea been staved or tortured to die, but they don't have strength to fight back. The leader of N. Korea, Kim Jong-Un live in a luxury lifestyle and developed nuclear bombs but his people live in hell. N. Korea blocked the outside news for years, its people thought life is supposed to be struggling/ poor. Communist Soviet Russia used to be a big union country but now so many countries have declared "independent" from Russia. Communism vs. Capitalism, which is bad, which is good. Isn't that very obvious?? Honesty is the best policy.
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Chinese government controls internet by using "censorship". They blocked Google, so no Gmail address, YouTube videos, Google Maps, Google Earth, ... that means they block knowledge. They don't want people to be smart because smart people might have "revolution". Stupid people are easier to be controlled - "brainwashed". I use Google search engine very often and appreciate their knowledge. I simply can't live in a land without Google. Anything I don't know, I type in the key words and get answers from Google. I have learned a lot because of Google. I've enjoyed YouTube videos for so many years, e.g. Quebec Canada pranks (Just for Laughs, gags), many "late night show" comedians, traveling guide, street foods, ... I subscribed them and clicked "like" buttons. I am addicted to YouTube video app almost daily. Before I went to Zurich, Switzerland in 2013, an Indian guy gave me his home address and I can see his place from Google Earth satellite 360 degree image in California, USA right in front of my computer. Amazing!! I have Facebook account but I am not active on it. I made purchase from Amazon so I receive daily news from "The Washington Post". I also have "New York Times" app for news that is blocked in China. China blocked out so many news, knowledge from the rest of world. What a shame!! Honesty is the best policy.
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In USA, we have "First Amendment" in Constitution - "Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Religion and Freedom of Press". We have "bipartisan" that is different / opposite voices to prevent a "tyrant". We have "presidential election" but it doesn't mean that we will be silent for the leader's behavior or attitude. Chinese people are "silent lambs". They don't dare to speak-up to criticize their government. Thousand of years of "emperor" system has deeply implanted in their minds. Their government is always right. If you have different opinions, you might have trouble. One voice only and that is Chinese government. This is 2018. but they still live in the controlling government. They don't understand the importance of "Democracy". They don't understand "Freedom of Speech and Press". The communist party is the only political party they have. That is why there are so many "corruption" in China. They don't know the "human right". Their government can't humbly accept people's criticisms. That is different from Western governments. Democracy vs. Communist. Honesty is the best policy.
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The notorious Communist Chinese government is spying on you, once you step-in their territory. I ain't like that. They don't care about people's "privacy". I have been to China in May 2008, that could be my only and last time. Italy is on the top of my bucket list. Honesty is the best policy.
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