> China has had similar systems for decades. The dang’an record books on employee behavior ... Under the Communists China also has had (and maybe still does?)

> China has had similar systems for decades. The dang’an record books on employee behavior ... Under the Communists China also has had (and maybe still does?) city block-level surveillance by neighbors of residential behavior. > The US has something like this ... The false equivalency comes up too much. I wrote some code in a couple hours the other day that is "something like" the Linux kernel, in that they are both code, both read from the network and output to the monitor, and both have bugs which will never be fixed. But if I want to communicate to others an accurate comparison of the two code bases, mentioning those similarities is misleading.