Watched

Surveillance has never been done on the scale that China is now implementing. The ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is putting 600 million cameras in place to watch its citizens. Facial recognition AI enables them to watch and judge.

Each citizen receives a social score showing a level of approval or disapproval based on behavior like video game purchases and traffic violations. The CCP may then punish by restricting freedoms relating to travel, education, internet access, etc.

Western countries don't approve of this social control. Especially, we don't approve of the huge "training centers" set up to "train" minority Uyghurs in the northwest province of Xinjiang--centers that look like forced brain-washing camps.

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A document has been leaked showing the judgment metrics used to "detain" Uyghurs in Xinjiang. That's tomorrow's post.

(cont'd tomorrow)