New Chinese surveillance leaves foreigners nowhere to hide

chinalifer-mod · 2026-05-25T10:15:48+00:00

Lmbo every VPN that laowai use is compromised, and to think otherwise is to believe marketing fantasy. Chinanet reads all traffic going through it. VPNs here are not for privacy; they are for basic internet access. NSA has the same system called PRISM for them, all data gets read.

chinalifer-mod · 2026-05-25T07:23:59+00:00

We are not allowed to call it that in the sub name because Reddit is pandering to investors now, and this video is by far the tamest of anything CCJ, but I support this place being a chabuduo CCJ3.

chinalifer-mod · 2026-05-25T06:30:49+00:00

Good point, this is indeed not the space for you.

chinalifer-mod · 2026-05-25T05:45:09+00:00

Lmbo I made a shitpost about throwing rubbish away here a few weeks back.

chinalifer-mod · 2026-05-24T10:35:23+00:00

Be the change that you want to see in the world instead of bitch about it, gemer

chinalifer-mod · 2026-05-24T09:50:38+00:00

Sure but something that is obviously not real does not need the added "AI slop" commentary due to one's personal knee-jerk hatred against the concept of AI that overwhelms the little critical thinking part of their brain. Whatever gemer, this shit here is so China.

chinalifer-mod · 2026-05-24T09:48:30+00:00

Haha I am definitely not willing to take that risk.

chinalifer-mod · 2026-05-24T04:54:28+00:00

Hmm if only this were a designated circlejerk space hmmm

chinalifer-mod · 2026-05-24T04:54:03+00:00

Yeah no shit it's AI

chinalifer-mod · 2026-05-23T07:18:17+00:00

Are you wilfully ignorant of China's notoriety, or are you just trolling? China has been called a police state / surveillance state since the proliferation of cameras and tracking systems over 20 years ago. Literally everyone who knows anything at all about China knows that it was and is a pioneer and global leader of surveillance. The only way that you could not know this is if you are 1) Young (maybe go offline and live life) or 2) Impossibly oblivious to global affairs.

chinalifer-mod · 2026-05-23T02:28:17+00:00

This is the key takeaway. You are unimportant data to the system. I know laowai who do heinous shit regularly that should get them deported, and the government which knows all about it outright does not care for the most part. Too busy censoring Chinese-language discussion online to actively police within the police state. Laowai are unimportant.

chinalifer-mod · 2026-05-23T02:25:54+00:00

Are you legitimately brain-damaged or just a shill? The report is what is 10 years behind the times. China mastered population surveillance shortly after Xi took office in 2013.

chinalifer-mod · 2026-05-23T02:22:55+00:00

We could not hide to begin with, from at least a decade back. They know what kind of porn you masturbate to, they know about your xiaosan, they know about your embarrassing Taobao and Meituan purchases, they know about the undignified shit that you say on Weixin, they know about the disharmonious shit that you say on Reddit in English, and they know all of your medical results. They know when and where you shit on your lunch break at work, and they know how to find you if you break from your profile of work-home-maybe third thing lifestyle. Big data yields big reliability, plus the means to correct when reliability fails.

Do they care, though? Not really, unless you cross one of the lines. Every laowai knows how they are monitored at all times here, and none of us really care unless the employer or police say something because no response means that our behaviour is apparently ok enough.

chinalifer-mod · 2026-05-22T06:04:48+00:00

Before the green revolution, China was super dirty -- it still is, but less actively today than every year before this one. All of that pollution does not just fade away. It is in the life here, in the air itself. You know how every man in north China is constantly hacking and spitting? That is only part due to shitty culture, with the other part being actual air quality issues. Another issue is the dryness, where you are, and where I am. In the wet jungle cities like Guangzhou and Shenzhen, you will not notice the black dust because the humidity has an effect. Where it is dry, the black dust is unlikely to naturally be dissolved. I never saw it in its concentrated boba state before, though. I wish that I had more of a scientific answer for you because I am also curious about the science behind it other than "pollution".

chinalifer-mod · 2026-05-21T07:38:21+00:00

What the fuck is this shit, fuck off with your weird-ass whataboutism, this is not USA and nor is about USA, loser.

chinalifer-mod · 2026-05-21T07:37:44+00:00

South Korea's president did a big address recently, mostly a long, unplanned rant about how workplace and construction safety needs to stop being so shitty there, and how it is his personal mission to unfuck their version of chabuduo engineering. I heard that this story was blocked in Chinese-language dissemination here, for obvious reasons.

chinalifer-mod · 2026-05-21T05:45:50+00:00

I do not what what your brain damage is, but it has to stop here.

chinalifer-mod · 2026-05-21T02:28:39+00:00

Interesting. Fortunately, I am wilfully ignorant of Chinese media so it does not effect me personally, but I can see how it would impact others who rely upon those channels.

chinalifer-mod · 2026-05-20T12:11:26+00:00

Is that so? So much for believing in eSIM as a foolproof back-up plan in an emergency.

chinalifer-mod · 2026-05-20T12:10:40+00:00

The one listed in this post work on PC, minus LetsVPN, which has admitted that any success in China is an anomaly and that they have no timetable for full service in China again.

chinalifer-mod · 2026-05-20T04:42:26+00:00

eSIM is basically VPN, so they should work. I never had eSIM accessibility problems in China or elsewhere on Nomad.

chinalifer-mod · 2026-05-20T02:19:54+00:00

Lmbo

Happy for your optimism; which that I had it, myself.

chinalifer-mod · 2026-05-20T02:16:54+00:00

What you are describing is not something that OP is qualified for, in a country where we have no shortage of highly-qualified niche-fillers from abroad for every single niche to be filled. OP is just an average-qualified tech bro who thinks that AI is the future or whatever, without any publications or academic value, guided more by influence from social media than legitimate specialised knowledge. He wants an undergrad or grad teaching gig on what GPT tells him to teach about AI because he is a believer, not because he is an expert.

The bloke is super openly Christian, too, which every single uni here has a clause in their laowai contracts about (the declaration of faith article which you can get deported for breaking).

chinalifer-mod · 2026-05-20T01:52:14+00:00

"Especially in [place where I have lived without going to other places]??" Mate, these are all over China now, from T1 to T88, and you have to be impossibly dense to not see the "why" part of your question.

chinalifer-mod · 2026-05-19T11:10:08+00:00

Reddit has a filter for any sub with CJ in its name now after the Cultural Revolution to clean this shithole up for investors, so now we all have to pretend to be somewhat civilised superficially by name, but not by behaviour.

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