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Re:WeChat is Watching: Living in China with the app that kno... by rjsw on Thursday June 13, 2019 @09:06AM (#20174411)
There is a TV series based on Ian Kershaw's work on Nazi Germany [1]. One Gestapo office had not been able to destroy their records and it was found that most arrests of people were done as a result of them being denounced by their neighbours not by any actions of Gestapo personnel.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nazis:_A_Warning_from_Hist...

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Re:WeChat is Watching: Living in China with the app that kno... by mc32 on Thursday June 13, 2019 @10:05AM (#20174963)
I’m not surprised. Many totalitarian regimes set up systems where neighbors can report on “counterrevolutionary” activities in which an abusive system “gets abused” and people use it for personal revenge among other things.
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