This is my hope, too. Humans tend to eventually revolt if they get oppressed too much. I like to think that this move to create total surveillance and censorshi

This is my hope, too. Humans tend to eventually revolt if they get oppressed too much. I like to think that this move to create total surveillance and censorship for anything "bad" the Chinese do or think, and the government's project to create "Perfect Citizen" score, will eventually result in a blowback. At the same time, I worry that the Chinese have been brainwashed (yes, I know, westerners are brainwashed in many ways, too) for so long about how things should be in China, and this surveillance and censorship apparatus backed by advanced AI would be so powerful than the government will be able to crush any potential dissent as soon as there's a spark of it. So this could go on for a long time, potentially indefinitely. We'll see if new technologies, such as uncensorable blockchains will be able to prevent that in any way.