Inside China’s surveillance state

Re:Inside China’s surveillance state by vkou on Friday July 20, 2018 @01:11PM (#17576876)

You do see Western journalists go after it, but only from fringe pinko rags, like The Guardian, or The Intercept.

You'll never see Fox News or MSNBC take it seriously (Except when it touches identity politics, like gun registries. Then, all of a sudden, it's a huge issue! Imagine, the government having a record of all gun owners!)

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Re:Inside China’s surveillance state by olivermarks on Friday July 20, 2018 @03:13PM (#17577982)

https://www.cloudwards.net/prism-snowden-and-government-surv... The Snowden revelations about Prism seem almost quaint these days...

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Re:Inside China’s surveillance state by vkou on Friday July 20, 2018 @04:19PM (#17578577)

The revelations about PRISM are quaint, because PRISM was a web form that let NSA employees send requests for user data to the major tech firms.

Of all the NSA revelations, it was the least controversial one. It was a glorified fax machine.

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