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China's Surveillance State Is Selling Citizen Data as a Side Hustle
- ganeshkrishnan 2y agoThe $1.6B funding is really working its way up to everything. Best time to start a media business and grab some of that funding.
- churchill 2y agoHah! Take it easy or you'll be branded a third-world interloper. An enemy of the glorious, fairest rules-based order! /s And, what do you expect? That $1.6b won't spend itself, will it?
- ganeshkrishnan 2y agoSarcasm like this will warrant a spastic response from paul graham, cuban and his dick cheney thank-you-for-your-service hordes about how america is exceptional and lord himself created the country with his bare hands ...
- churchill 2y agoYou mean the exceptionalist crowd who wouldn't recognize irony if it walked up to them and slapped their face with its penis.
- ganeshkrishnan 2y agowhere can I sign up for this?
- ganeshkrishnan 2y agohttps://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-bill-could-turn-heat-093000927.html https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-bill-could-turn-heat-09300... >The US is upping the ante in its information war with China, with the House of Representatives backing a bill to spend US$1.6 billion within five years to promote anti-China propaganda, according to observers.
- derelicta 2y agoNononono you don't understand! When we do it, it's just "reinformation", when they do it, it's propaganda! Totally different!
- ricksunny 2y agoOk, surveillance state sells to private co's - so basically the inverse of how we do it stateside?
- derelicta 2y agoBut unlike the US, where the State is allowed to buy aggregated data for surveillance purposes, in China, those insiders will likely be jailed for life the day their little business gets discovered. Even more after such an article published by the foreign press.
- ethanmitchell87 2y agoReads like a cyberpunk future in the present day. Data brokers in a surveillance state using encryption for comms and payments.
- olivia1999 2y ago[dead]