China's Surveillance State Is Selling Citizen Data as a Side Hustle

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22 points·cannibalXxx··10 comments

Ok, surveillance state sells to private co's - so basically the inverse of how we do it stateside?

But unlike the US, where the State is allowed to buy aggregated data for surveillance purposes, in China, those insiders will likely be jailed for life the day their little business gets discovered. Even more after such an article published by the foreign press.

The $1.6B funding is really working its way up to everything. Best time to start a media business and grab some of that funding.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-bill-could-turn-heat-09300...

>The US is upping the ante in its information war with China, with the House of Representatives backing a bill to spend US$1.6 billion within five years to promote anti-China propaganda, according to observers.

Nononono you don't understand! When we do it, it's just "reinformation", when they do it, it's propaganda! Totally different!

Hah! Take it easy or you'll be branded a third-world interloper. An enemy of the glorious, fairest rules-based order! /s

And, what do you expect? That $1.6b won't spend itself, will it?

Sarcasm like this will warrant a spastic response from paul graham, cuban and his dick cheney thank-you-for-your-service hordes about how america is exceptional and lord himself created the country with his bare hands ...

You mean the exceptionalist crowd who wouldn't recognize irony if it walked up to them and slapped their face with its penis.

where can I sign up for this?

Reads like a cyberpunk future in the present day. Data brokers in a surveillance state using encryption for comms and payments.

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