There's no such thing as quasi-satirical.

It used to just be satirical. Now it's quasi-satirical. Reality has caught up to the satire, unfortunately.

Maybe they are trying hedge due to the original book not being satirical?

This is what I came here to say.

Uh huh.

Ah, the sweet, sweet sound of sinophobia. There's a better chance of the CPC accepting the research and altering the design than there would be in a capitalist country, I can tell you that much.

If there's no oversight of tech companies, this is just what they do - they think they're adding features that will help them compete, but since they don't have a security focus, they rely on obscurity.

I think Chinese companies are all joint state owned enterprises or similar.

Dont blame on malice which is equally explained by capitalism.

Flock didnt just start a surveillance system in the US by themselves.

So, the poster said unsupervised companies will surveil to gain an advantage.

I suggested Chinese companies aren't unsupervised, but are in fact state owned and very supervised (Chinese state surveillance is well known).

You point out that surveillance is also a profit making business/product (flock).

You could point to google, meta, and AI as emerging or profitable surveillance tool products.

Does that mean Chinese products are engaged in free market surveillance and not state directed?

So China is so supervised and controled that it took then 10 years to find the richest man guilty and sented to prison: https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-evergrande-founder...

This is the logic of paranoia; we know they have a surveillance state the same way you know America has one.

They very much are. More, perhaps, than any other country.

Yes, in contributing to global climate change.

Do the per Capita calculation. Why can US and Canadian folks emit 4x as much as the average Chinese citizen? Do you believe you have the right to do so only because you are born in the West?

I believe that if it wasn't producing shit for US its emissions would be vastly lower.

Does the earth use per capita? Didn’t think so

It's laundering even more support for the age certification system they already wanted. So, yes.