Save time by listening to our audio articles as you multitaskchart the replacement of thea more comprehensive and powerful monitoring system. This new system has facilitated mass oppression and human-rights abuses—yet at the same time, the authors argue, it has improved the lives of some.
But while surveillance technology is used to terrorise people in China’s far west, on the east coast it has benefited others. In Hangzhou, the home city of Alibaba, one of China’s tech giants, the company’s “City Brain” project revolutionised traffic control. As Mr Chin and Ms Lin describe, Alibaba developed an artificial-intelligence system that could spot traffic accidents and optimise the sequence of traffic lights to ease the flow of vehicles, particularly ambulances.
In winning prose, Mr Chin and Ms Lin make a nuanced argument. The party uses this technology to control and censor people. But in the absence of fair elections or a free press, surveillance is also a tool for gauging public opinion. As Meng Tianguang, a political scientist, tells the authors, the government has tried to devise systems capable of “automatically detecting signs of negative shifts in social-media conversation”, intelligence that can then contribute to decision-making.
Nonsense.
Surveillance certainly doesn’t improve lives. What are you smoking, ?
After all - it is a totalitarian dictatorship !
1986? 1984?
as if this hasn't been more and more the case in western countries. For example, NYC MTA just announced that they'll be installing cameras in all trains. In the west, the primary reason for the increased surveillance is to 'protect' property.
Sure, in China...
Paranoid government afraid of its own shadow.
China has fewer monitors per capita than the UK
SurveillanceCapitalism
You should get an opinion from people who live there.
USA/UK’s powerful monitoring system has facilitated mass oppression and human-rights abuses—yet at the same time...
What hell？
often uses titles to manipulate readers. One tactic: loaded questions which contain controversial assumptions Media manipulation in the West is more efficient than it was in Nazi Germany - Mark Miller, Prof of Media Studies at New York Uni.
Typical smut from the Economist rag mag
that system is way evil, does nothing good for Chinese people. no one knows this better than me.
Appropriation of feelings of the abused victims by the oppressors, what's new here? Uniformity gives better control but invites worst disasters.
New York Metro also began to install surveillance cameras
Another fake news from master manipulators. SHAME
And on its way to the USA and Europe.
One thing china did good is it banned Fake British Propaganda media, I think my country should also ban
that's rally absurd....each one foreigners have been China will not agree with your article. GBP falling, pay more attention of your home land. China economic keep growth.China low inflation. China Yuan go up against GBP.
The upsides? Of course...
It's good to notice that the Economist has been raising its voice against China from the very beginning whenever any sort of anomaly comes out.
Never writing on the same topic about USA?
Remember Tiananmen Square?
The 'Upside' of losing ones privacy - sounds like Google, Facebook, Amazon, talking points... Be wary of governments and companies in control of personal information about each of us... It will NOT turn out well!!
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