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Re:WeChat is Watching: Living in China with the app that kno... by gbrown on Thursday June 13, 2019 @01:27PM (#20176947)
Not everyone has to actually be constantly surveiled for the effects to be the same, a-la panopticon.
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Re:WeChat is Watching: Living in China with the app that kno... by scilro on Thursday June 13, 2019 @01:45PM (#20177095)
Absolutely, and to me this is a more reasonable framework to understand how technology-enabled surveillance works in China and elsewhere.
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