It’s a respectable position. From my time in China, many people felt this way. The streets feel and are extremely safe. Surveillance makes low-level crime hard

It’s a respectable position. From my time in China, many people felt this way. The streets feel and are extremely safe. Surveillance makes low-level crime hard to get away with. It genuinely raised serious questions for me. What good is privacy if I’m getting stabbed in private? What I can’t get my head around is the second-order effects that this has. With more surveillance, it shifts power from the watched to the watchers. The squishy parts, who may have their own personal motivations. I’m not entirely sure democracy can survive such a severe imbalance. Maybe the answer is to replace democracy with a computer.