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We once laughed at China for building a wall — and now we’ve built our own
by maoxiaoke 10mo ago
We once laughed at China for building a wall — and now we’ve built our own
- echelon 10mo agoWe're doing a lot of things China is doing. Meta, Flock cameras, Palantir. It's just a public-private partnership rather than purely state-owned enterprise, like the NSA/CIA/DoD. In theory we have more distribution of power, but it's still surveillance and control that we have little say in.
- summa_tech 10mo agoThe issue is that China has done, on the whole, fairly alright for itself. So everyone with any power in the West is looking and thinking: "huh, so the freedom and rights and property were really not important for progress at all - might as well can it".