> Something will be the breaking point for this level of restriction/overreach in the name of surveillance. Ever since WWII, with Marxist scholars observing th

> Something will be the breaking point for this level of restriction/overreach in the name of surveillance. Ever since WWII, with Marxist scholars observing that Nazi states don't receive the unrest (to them: class struggle) that we'd otherwise expect it to have, they've strongly suspected that cultural hegemony goes a long way to preventing unrest. This comes especially into relevance when you consider that the CCP is in a position of cultural hegemony with respect to its citizens to an extent that free societies simply aren't. The more China is able to prevent its people from accessing actually trustable institutions, the stronger its citizens obedience to it. You say Streisand effect, but this is very greatly weakened when the state controls the most powerful communication platforms, and have suppressed communication media that it doesn't control.