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Re:China’s CCTV network took just 7 minutes to capture BBC r... by pjc50 on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @07:40AM (#20818762)
> this is a huge negative rather than an achievement from the western perspective.

To you and I, yes, but I don't think we can take for granted that everyone or even a majority of the West thinks that way these days. Especially if you told them it was to be used for immigration control.

We've already got the mass surveillance TV show: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunted_(2015_TV_series)

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Re:China’s CCTV network took just 7 minutes to capture BBC r... by xster on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @01:30PM (#20821991)
oh ya, for sake of brevity, that was totally a coastal HN crowd facing message. I'm sure people living in Chicago where 40-60 people are being shot each weekend has a different perspective.
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Re:China’s CCTV network took just 7 minutes to capture BBC r... by pjc50 on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @04:04PM (#20823513)
I'm trying to work out whether there's a constituency who's in favour of mass surveillance but not gun control, and what that landscape looks like.

Given the prohibition on building a database of gun owners, I wonder if we'll end up with a situation where everyone's face is recorded but the guns are blurred out to protect their rights.

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