Context behind this question:

So I watched some Chinese Youtubers recently (apparantly they crossed the firewall and there is a "trend" of this recently? not sure...) and watching some footage, which then triggered some old memories, again...

So when I was a kid in Guangzhou City, it was like 2008 and I had issues with home (fight with older brother) so I remember "running away" (not actually running away just impulse decision lol, I was 6 years old, what was I gonna do? no survival skills lmao) from home for a few hours... and I wandered like a very long distance away from home so when I came back several hours later, I noticed the police were only searching nearby my house, they might not have found me if I didn't get scared and decide to come back myself.

So fast forward to now, with all these cameras everywhere...

Hypothetically, if I was a kid again and I did that same "running away" thing, how long would it take for the police to find me? Like one hour? 10 minutes?

Like I can imagine them just stopping me within 5 minutes and be like: (in Mandarin) "Hey kid where to do think you're going? Stop being a disobedient child and go back home" ๐Ÿ’€

Okay maybe this is a stupid question, lol (still kinda traumatized from that day, so this is sort of cartharisis for me)

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[โ€“] 5 points 6 months ago (1 child)

It's not contradictory as I was talking through my perspective, and not through the perspective of a fascist government.

And it's not just a matter of trust, but of privacy. Even if you fully trust a friend, it doesn't mean that it's fine for them to be watching you at all times.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 6 months ago

    Well I'm just saying that the elimination of "criminals" does reduce crime in a sense. I personally don't think it's a very ethical means of doing so but it is effective.

    If I trusted my friend so deeply that they would not judge or harm me in any way I wouldn't mind if they saw my whole life. But that's a lot of trust that isn't very realistic, especially for a detached and unaccountable government.

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