China’s surveillance state has created at least four billionaires

Re:China’s surveillance state has created at least four bill... by bitlax on Saturday February 23, 2019 @07:06AM (#19232942)

You missed the many, many articles on surveillance in the US and how that discussion isn't a prerequisite for discussions about China. Also, you point out that the poster has an interest in stories about China, but not how that's a problem.

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Re:China’s surveillance state has created at least four bill... by viivaux on Saturday February 23, 2019 @07:26AM (#19233024)

> "You missed the many, many articles on surveillance in the US and how that discussion isn't a prerequisite for discussions about China."

I must have... The last ones I remember are from like 2014, and as I recall there wasn't much signal in the noise. Feel free to link me to the most recent discussion (DDG shows me nothing - zero results - for the past month when I search "surveillance" on this site, no idea why).

While it might not be a prerequisite, isn't it sort of important context? Because I haven't seen any signs of improvement on this front, while I've seen a very sharp rise in the number of China related posts.

> "you point out that the poster has an interest in stories about China, but not how that's a problem."

I mean, if this site and it's users want to talk about China that much more than the US that's fine, but how is it a problem for me to point that out? And is it perhaps a little disingenuous to call a consistent 40% China related post history with over an 80% negative connotation "an interest in stories about China"?

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Re:China’s surveillance state has created at least four bill... by bitlax on Saturday February 23, 2019 @09:57AM (#19233546)

> I must have...

In the past month there have been 51 articles with the term "surveillance" in the title, though that's not a metric I would use.

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Re:China’s surveillance state has created at least four bill... by dd36 on Saturday February 23, 2019 @07:45AM (#19233098)

Maybe he/she’s Chinese or of Chinese descent? I have friends of Taiwanese descent that very much follow China closely and critically.

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Re:China’s surveillance state has created at least four bill... by viivaux on Saturday February 23, 2019 @07:54AM (#19233135)

Maybe - but I think that if I posted 12 times a week about US transgessions - or German, or Irish, or Australian - I'd be facing a ban in extremely short order.

I'd not like to see this normalised.

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Re:China’s surveillance state has created at least four bill... by striking on Saturday February 23, 2019 @09:23AM (#19233407)

Why do you think you would receive a ban for that? I don't think you would.

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Re:China’s surveillance state has created at least four bill... by viivaux on Saturday February 23, 2019 @09:44AM (#19233486)

"Please don't use Hacker News primarily for political or ideological battle. This destroys intellectual curiosity, and we ban accounts that do it."

But I heartily encourage you to try it, and let me know how it works out for you. Perhaps you can get away with it by making 51% of your posts about random tech debris.

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