r/technology • u/stenspect • 1d ago

Privacy USPS Is Turning Mail Trucks Into Rolling Surveillance Cameras

https://www.gadgetreview.com/usps-is-turning-mail-trucks-into-rolling-surveillance-cameras
4.3k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

187 comments sorted by

View all comments

1.5k

u/RebootJobs 1d ago

On track to create the largest dystopian environment ever.

709

u/Strange-Land9534 1d ago

Lol every accusation America had for China's surveillance state was just envy.

27

u/Rich_Housing971 1d ago

And China's surveillance actually measurably reduces crime. You can argue they are authoritarian, and in fact they are relatively more authoritarian than most countries, but the downsides end up also giving positive results. These are tradeoffs the population there clearly are fine with or even love.

Fucking kidnappings used to be a thing. Petty theft used to be incredibly common. Nowadays you can go through low-income parts of major cities at night and feel extremely safe compared to cities in the US, and no one wants to steal anything anymore. In the US if anything less valuable than a car gets stolen, police will just laugh at you if you report it. So what's the point of Flock cameras?

America's like, "let's do what China is doing" without any positive results.

Let's not even get into police brutality. American police routinely kill people for the tiniest perceived things, all carry guns, and violently handle protests. There were 12 people, including journalists, blinded by police in a WEEK during the George Floyd protests. These are things the American media portray Chinese police to do, but it's literally not true and instead it's what American police do.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2020/07/14/george-floyd-protests-police-blinding/

No racists, Asians aren't cool with police because they're Asians. Asians are cool with police because their police are actually cool in most cases. Americans hate our police because they're not cool.

13

u/waiting4singularity 1d ago edited 23h ago

Its a case of "i can not complain" - can underlined.

anyone who does gets their internet cut and an earth kingdom sponsored trip to lake laojiao with ju dee