China's mass surveillance programs are a symptom, not a cause, of widespread oppression, and I will eat my hat if they achieve their purpose. The reason to fight them is not to save ourselves from tech dystopia, but because the Chinese people deserve a life free of tyranny.https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1207738431062892546 …
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The view of China as some kind of end state of technological oppression betrays a lack of imagination about just how weird things can get in the future.
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But what I think is bugging me here is that China doesn't exist as to be a warning to the West, and we shouldn't write people off there as the hopeless victims of an invincible surveillance state.
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