This thread is scary, because a cynical Chinese leader mischaracterizing the Hong Kong conflict while getting full private briefings about what is actually going on is much less of a threat than a true believer being told what he wants to hear until publicly humiliated by eventshttps://twitter.com/BeijingPalmer/status/1198814005126676481 …
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Anyway, you don't need AI or a global surveillance network to understand what Hong Kongers want. You don't even need to speak Chinese, they helpfully chant in English from time to time. The fact that this information isn't privately getting through to Beijing is very significant
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There's an alternate universe where China could have used its incredible capacity to infiltrate and observe the protests, made skillful use of Cantonese-speaking agents to channel decisions and conversations on LiHKG, subverted Telegram groups etc. But we're in the derp timeline.
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It creates the impression that there’s no way to argue against it, as well. “It’s not *me* making this decision, it’s the Impersonal Objective Computer. It doesn’t matter if I feel bad, this is what the computer says so it’s what’s right.”
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This affects both the oppressed (“no way to convince them otherwise!”) and the oppressor (“even if I feel bad, the rules say this is what has to happen...”)
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