Tuesday, July 15, 2008

China's All-Seeing Eye : Rolling Stone

Naomi Kline this amazing article by naomi kline in rolling stone is the story of her visit to china and the meaning of "security" in this place in this time. how very orwellian. it would be just slightly alarming to hear what she describes on the usual grounds of privacy and surveillance and police use of high technology. but as she describes how the notion the world had that the chinese were villains suppressing the tibetans, and so somewhat chastized before the olympics, we are amazed to here quite the opposite is the case in china. read how she shows chinese use of hi tech is used quite skillfully for suppression. part of the story is how american technology helped out. here's a link to the software that she points out helps the chinese surveillance. http://www.l1id.com/pages/71-facial-screening

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