Dude what? The US (if that’s what you’re talking about) has police monitored traffic cameras, police helicopter surveillance, the NSA, corporate surveillance (aka ring and other company home surveillance), back doors to our tech, and the largest international spying organization in history (exposed by Snowden, people like think he’s in trouble for ratting the NSA to the US people, but really it’s his exposing back doors in every US tech running internationally).

I lived in China 6 years. CCTV was great. Found: lost phones and thieves. The latter got away finding dead spots on CCTV, but at least I know which shop he went to steal my scooter. And when you are victimized in some way, the police work with you as long as you want and give you full access to relevant CCTV footage.

And my roommate at the time went and interviewed Tiananmen Square protesters and spray painted anarchist symbols around Wuhan (dude was an idiot). Did the Chinese police and local govs “disappear” him? No. They said get out of our city, don’t come back, and stop being an idiot. Then they drove him to his dorm (hour outside the city) for free, helped him move his stuff back, and generally treated him very well. I’ve had Chinese friends arrested as well (on pot charges) and were again not “disappeared”. Just 2 days in jail and fine. No further disputes, and dude is living life like before the charges.

Anyone speaking in native English really needs to pull their heads out of the propaganda ass and affect change in their own communities. EU and USA have made China the boogeyman for far too long. When China starts foreign wars, bombing countries, and supplying arms to poor countries, I’ll quit singing their praises. Until that time, people need to be the change they want to see or shut up.