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America Now Less Free Than China

How did we let that happen?

Imagine if an opposition leader in China, or any other country for that matter, was treated the way the Dems and Big Tech are treating Trump.

So, where now is the land of the free?

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In 2019, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden said China's mass surveillance mechanisms and machinery of private communications was "utterly mind-boggling". As of 2019, it was estimated that 200 million monitoring CCTV cameras of the "Skynet" system had been put to use in mainland China, four times as many as the surveillance cameras in the United States.

State media in China claim that Skynet is the largest video surveillance system in the world, utilizing facial recognition technology and big data analysis. In 2019, Comparitech reported that 8 out of 10 most monitored cities in the world are in China, with Chongqing, Shenzhen and Shanghai being the world's top 3. In 2019, China supplied surveillance technology to most of the world, and positioned the country in control over the mass surveillance industry.

According to industry researcher IHS Markit, at the end of 2019, there were 770 million surveillance cameras in China, and this was expected to exceed 1 billion by the end of 2021. The government says this prevents crime, but citizens worry that their data and their privacy could be compromised. In late October 2020, Deng Yufeng, an artist, used performance art to highlight the issue of how difficult it is to dodge the view of security cameras.
The Chinese government has been strengthening its tight control over the Internet and digital communication. There are more than 750 million Internet users in China, and their online actions are strictly regulated. In 2017, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) released a new regulation, which imposed restrictions on the production and distribution of online news.

The regulation required all platforms, such as online blogs, forums, websites, and social media apps to be managed by party-sanctioned editorial staff. These staff must obtain approval from the national or local government Internet and information offices and be trained by the central government. As required by the Chinese government, major internet platforms and messaging services in China established elaborate self-censorship mechanisms. Some have hired teams of thousands to police content and invested in powerful artificial intelligence algorithms.

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Hopefully anyone who thinks we have less freedom than China will spend some time learning about how little freedom people have in China.





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I agree it’s worse in China, or maybe just more flagrant. Have you talked to any people actually from China? Half of the surveillance systems don’t work. But the US has the infrastructure for mass surveillance already; we pay for it with our own money (indirectly through taxes and directly through phones and other devices). It is right in front of our faces. Even the secret surveillance programs were revealed a few years ago and people don’t care.

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Thank god. Thanks for that.

I thought for a moment that the oppresive, dictatorial, authoritarianism now prevelant here had exceeded China's. I can breathe a sigh of relief. We might have it terrible, but at least they have it worse.

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I don't think it's terrible compared to China. If you watch the videos I posted or similar videos, you'll really appreciate your freedom.

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I'm not free. If you're also American, you're not free either.

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Have no fear, Citizen. You enjoy every right and freedom to peddle your small-minded conservatism in the US and here on tremendous Filmboards.

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You enjoy every right and freedom to peddle your small-minded conservatism in the US …
Really? Ask your father-in-law about that.
… and here on tremendous Filmboards.
They will eventually come for us also. I'm wondering if the motivation for The Hot Topics Board came from within or the outside.

If you don't follow the alternative media you are uninformed.
If you follow the mainstream media you are misinformed.



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LOL! According to whom? Someone is feeding you a load of crap. Have you been listening to conman? He like to try to feed people crap but the only ones who actually eat shit are the ones who listen to him. We are far more free that Communist China.

Beware the sound of one hand clapping.

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The point of this thread is the paragraph in the middle of the OP. My title is obviously hyperbole.

People here don't seem to be able to hold a simple conversation.

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You are consumed with paranoia. No government agency has taken your rights away and nothing has changed. Twitter and Facebook are private companies. Private companies have always had near complete control of who utilizes their services. This is a principle you republicans used to believe in. Now you are advocating using big government to interfere in how private companies conduct their business. You are compromising your own principles just to help assuage the ego of a crybaby billionaire. Wake up.

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Here's the current state of affairs.

Corporate America is being held to ransom by left wing outrage mobs. Any involvement with heretics such as Republicans, celebrities who don't come out and denounce the right, or even people who express concern with the direction we're travelling with regards things like transgenderism, is punished by online campaigning on social media to boycott their business.

Every organisation now expects you to liase with them on social media. Most companies no longer accept phone calls.

The mainstream media now sources their stories from Twitter and Facebook.

Social media is now part of the fabric of life. It's where most people go to check the political temperature of the country. It's bigger than a private company. It's like banning people from using roads. If you remove right wing voices from these platforms you're preventing those people from being a part of the conversation.

That's obviously unpleasant for the excluded, but it's also not good for the people left behind, since nobody comes out of an echo chamber having changed for the better.

Both sides of the arguement need to be heard.

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Protecting Trump's ability to spread lies on Twitter isn't the important battle you think it is. His lies actually hurt society. If you are now for government regulation of private business for the betterment of society, then let me suggest you should be more concerned with increasing regulations on the health care industry and the banks, which affect actual lives.

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I'm not necessarily for regulation.

I'd like to see the social media companies broken up, but rather based on their monopolization of certain markets - Google has corned search, for example, and in doing so now controls the online narrative.

What I think should be happening, and I'm horrified and ashamed that it's not, is everyone should be outraged by the current disregard for free speech.

If we don't fight for it now, we won't have the means to do so shortly.

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America will be free soon when trump is gone and his evil followers are executed.

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You think executing people based on their political stripes leads to freedom? Interesting.

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No, I believe the punishment for treason is death.

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Supporting Trump, who was our country's president until a few hours ago, is treasonous?

I think you need some perspective.

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I think you need to kill yourself.

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Seems to me every time you encounter a problem you want it dead.

The left is considered the caring side of the political spectrum. How on earth it gained that reputation is beyond me. It just spews hate and bile then tries to cover it up with virtue signalling.

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You're just blabbering nonsense.

I's true what they say about the right. Conservatives always refuse to accept reality.
That's why they always lose.

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fuck this shit politics right in its fucking ass, i came here to rave myself to death





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