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0 pointsavianlyric4y ago0 comments

> All what is needed to adopt it to scan for different kind of images is to connect it to different database, say, Winnie the Pooh memes featuring CCP chairman, and boom, jailed dissenters.

The CCP have already throughly demonstrated that they don’t need manufactures consent to build these systems.

Look at the Uyghur population in China. They already have their phones scanned on device for dissident material, not by coercing manufacturers, but by forcing the population to install a surveillance app. Then making it illegal to use a phone without it.

Being caught at checkpoint without the app installed and working is grounds for immediate arrest and re-education.

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adventured4y ago

> The CCP have already throughly demonstrated that they don’t need manufactures consent to build these systems.

It was obviously merely an example for illustration purposes by the parent. To get a point across it's often very helpful to use a stark, clear example.

Few governments will ever have the extraordinary capabilities and resources of the CCP in China.

For the other ~190 governments that will never reach that level of capability, what they might have now is a globe-spanning billion-device corporation like Apple more willing to assist them.

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