I think you may be missing the key and usually (its a case by case basis) most salient criticisms of surveillance, those criticisms involve the fact that most surveillance and always, also always involve their usage for manipulation across a wide array of domains, these manipulations often, at their most innocent, lead to severe unintended bad consequences, and at their worst, lead to a multitude of oppressions once things start going wrong for the system, see the case of old East Germany, they actually had fairly broad based support until things started going wrong in the 1970s, then the surveillance apparatus, which despite being older tech may have been even more extensive than all contemporary examples, transformed into primarily being a tool for preserving the people who benefited from the status quo, its truly harmful effects were the cumulative effects thousands or even of millions of little actions, such as off the bat preventing the ruling parties internal democratic and deliberative functions to make economic organizational changes (they literally had companies that had been innovative ad doing well but made tech that was on the way out the door and they just kept making it, the parties internal deliberative functions should have corrected this but were prevented from doing so by manipulations that relied on the extensive surveillance).
I like the surreal title. It made me expect you'll make an ironic twist, so I kept reading right to the finish... And somehow didn't feel cheated when that turned false. ... The title could likewise attract you many China nay-sayers, in theory at least.
Another reason security cameras are welcomed in China is that 96% of Chinese trust their government to do the right thing, compared to 16% of us.
I think you may be missing the key and usually (its a case by case basis) most salient criticisms of surveillance, those criticisms involve the fact that most surveillance and always, also always involve their usage for manipulation across a wide array of domains, these manipulations often, at their most innocent, lead to severe unintended bad consequences, and at their worst, lead to a multitude of oppressions once things start going wrong for the system, see the case of old East Germany, they actually had fairly broad based support until things started going wrong in the 1970s, then the surveillance apparatus, which despite being older tech may have been even more extensive than all contemporary examples, transformed into primarily being a tool for preserving the people who benefited from the status quo, its truly harmful effects were the cumulative effects thousands or even of millions of little actions, such as off the bat preventing the ruling parties internal democratic and deliberative functions to make economic organizational changes (they literally had companies that had been innovative ad doing well but made tech that was on the way out the door and they just kept making it, the parties internal deliberative functions should have corrected this but were prevented from doing so by manipulations that relied on the extensive surveillance).
I like the surreal title. It made me expect you'll make an ironic twist, so I kept reading right to the finish... And somehow didn't feel cheated when that turned false. ... The title could likewise attract you many China nay-sayers, in theory at least.