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I assume the "US is comparable to China" assertion rubbed a few people the wrong way. This link collection shows the gravity of the situation in the US, and tha
by stareatgoats 8y ago
I assume the "US is comparable to China" assertion rubbed a few people the wrong way. This link collection shows the gravity of the situation in the US, and that US is drifting towards totalitarianism, without having reached that stage by a long shot. The surveillance scope is quantitatively different in the two countries, given the expressed totalitarian nature of the Chinese regime.
- scottlocklin 8y agoSomething I ask myself all the time: how will I be able to tell when we've reached actual totalitarianism in the West? It won't be Chinese style totalitarianism, and I'm pretty sure they won't helpfully dress up in jackboots and announce things have reached peak totalitarianism. Would we notice at all?
- wongarsu 8y agoI think the US is very big on internet surveilance and is probably beyond what China does. You don't have to be totalitarian to do surveilance, there's plenty of other reasons to do it (though once you have the data the temptation grows to use it for totalitarian uses)