It's just another modified Linux, like what they did to Android. Mobile phones in China will soon be forced to install this system. All your daily activities will be reported to the Big Brother. And it's not a joke.
That's like comparing apples with cowbells. It's one thing to mandate a spyware component on all the phones in your country and it's another thing to conduct surveillance using court orders against criminal suspects.
Could you elaborate on that?
Probably referencing to attempts to push through chat surveillance laws.