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30 Million Cameras In China, Watching
A security camera in Beijing. (rahims/Flickr)
Under the extremely repressive and violent Chinese Communist Party, the vast country underwent brutal genocides of its own people, again and again.
Though that’s all pushed into the woodwork now, the party has installed more than 20 million cameras across the country, according to NPR.
“Today, in Chinese cities, cameras are everywhere: on highways, in public parks, on balconies, in elevators, in taxis, even in the stands at sporting events.
Officials say the cameras help combat crime and maintain “social stability” — a euphemism for shutting up critics.”
They named the huge network Skynet. In China, it is also difficult to access the internet and you can be killed—and have your organs harvested and sold on the black market—merely for your faith.
The ultimate goal of the camera network is highly accurate technology that can recognize faces, allowing party officials to track “critics” in real time.
But one researcher says facial recognition is much harder on the street than at checkpoints, where it’s currently used.
“Frankly, the technology is not as good as described in the movies,” Bo Zhang, the researcher, says. “It’s not that easy to find people in crowds.”
The NPR reporter says the volume of surveillance cameras “can be overwhelming at times.” He counted 11 cameras within a 100-foot radius.
Some locals are unfazed, but others are very concerned, including a teacher at Beijing’s China University of Politics and Law. Officials just installed cameras there.
“Liu Xin, who teaches administrative law, thinks the school plans to target teachers who might criticize China’s current system in front of students.
‘Because things are recorded, once they suspect certain teachers are problematic … they can find the recordings and that means they’ve found evidence,’ Liu says.
She says cameras will intimidate instructors from speaking their minds and undermine learning. Liu thinks professors will just teach from textbooks to protect themselves.
‘I think teachers will lose interest and students will lose interest as well,’ she says.
The Ministry of Education declined NPR’s request for an interview and insisted that the cameras are just to deter cheating. Bo Zhang, the analyst, estimates there are now about 30 million cameras operating in China — or about one for every 43 citizens. He expects camera sales to grow 20 percent annually over the next five years.”
Coming to America!
HOW many do you think they have in our country ??? there everywhere,,you can’t leave the house without the GOVERMENT knowing where you have been and who you have seen !! they know what you spend your money on,,watch on tv,,what you do on the internet,,hell they even know when you fart..AND they want to watch YOU even more !! BIG BROTHER is here NOW !!!
There are cameras so small they look like a piece of clear office tape. The fbi, cia, atf almost all the alphabet agencies main job is surreptitious surveillance and always has been their job.
Are we taking lessons from them or are we taking lessons from them! Obama said he was going to fundamentally transform the US. Is this part of it?
Now as not to ruffle feathers … my following statement would be for those who believe in what has been referred to a the garden in Eden … or desire to return to lands of such Positive and Utopia-like protective gravitational field of a beautiful, self healing, self sustained Mother Earth reality ..
Or for those minds whom have ever pondered on the Galactic World of Positive Peace and life of voyaging through space, traveling aboard a protective and self sustained Highly Advance craft similar to the Star Trek Generations … both of which I consider are in the future of this generation …
Because in these worlds of Positive perfection and Positive Bliss, which remains in oneness with the CREATIR ….an assigned Power Source and Watchful Eye are always in place ..
It’s just that when things became contaminated and operated on a lower frequencies … this allowed invaders to move in and to instate their evil purposes … that was something that had never happened before … and will never happen again ….
As for me I look forward to the days when I’m once again under constant Loving and caring surveillance …
Big BROTHER is watching you. The Chinese Communist Party leaders are capitalist and using the people as slave labour, who are the property and wholly subjected to the Chinese Communist Party, who pay them very little. This is the Communist at their best, making sure that the people stay in line and don’t say anything against the Communist Government, because they are watching and listening to every thing, that may uncover the capitalist leaders at the top of the Communist Government. The reason why I say that they are capitalist is because their leaders have to trade with the capitalist world and you have to be a capitalist to do that. This keeps the Chinese Capitalist Communist Party in power, to make weapons of mass destruction and pay a huge army to keep the people in line. We the capitalist of this world should just stop buying Chinese goods, until all the people of China are capitalist. That would slow down the Chinese economy.
And UK still has more per capita … lol … http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1205607/Shock-figures-reveal-Britain-CCTV-camera-14-people–China.html
“Look how bad China is everyone!!” — propaganda to help you not see how bad your own country is …
The USA is also estimated to have 30 million … per capita that almost TRIPLES China’s rate … ouch!
But beware of China! … lol