{"id":9590,"date":"2022-12-21T18:53:20","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T18:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=9590"},"modified":"2022-12-21T18:53:20","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T18:53:20","slug":"chinas-protests-are-testing-the-surveillance-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=9590","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s protests are testing the surveillance state"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“People in China have been living under extreme anti-Covid lockdowns as part of the country\u2019s \u201czero-Covid\u201d policy for the past three years. But after a wave of protests, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) appears ready<\/a> to loosen some of those restrictions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In late November, protests broke out in Urumqi, a city in the Xinjiang province, after an apartment fire<\/a> there killed 10 people. Residents believe that fire trucks were obstructed by fences, tents, and other barriers normally used for Covid-19 precautions, leading to a multi-hour delay in extinguishing the blazes. The region had been under strict lockdown for more than 100 days at that point, and the fire proved to be a breaking point for many people who live there \u2014 and alongside other Covid-related incidents<\/a>, helped galvanize protests in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Beijing, and elsewhere across China<\/a>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“hile the protests were overwhelmingly about ending the lockdowns, we also heard some calls for an end to President Xi Jinping\u2019s surveillance state. One of the most striking images of the protests has been one of demonstrators holding up blank pieces of paper<\/a>, a symbol of Chinese censorship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it\u2019s not likely to spell the end of surveillance in China. The government is already leveraging<\/a> the vast amounts of information it\u2019s collected on its citizens \u2014 including cell phone location data \u2014 to crack down on those who participated in the protests.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/podcasts\/2022\/12\/5\/23494424\/china-covid-protests-testing-surveillance-state<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“People in China have been living under extreme anti-Covid lockdowns as part of the country\u2019s \u201czero-Covid\u201d policy for the past three years. But after a wave of protests, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) appears ready to loosen some of those restrictions.<\/p>\n

In late November, protests broke out in Urumqi, a city in the Xinjiang province, after an apartment fire there killed 10 people. Residents believe that fire trucks were obstructed by fences, tents, and other barriers normally used for Covid-19 precautions, leading to a multi-hour delay in extinguishing the blazes. The region had been under strict lockdown for more than 100 days at that point, and the fire proved to be a breaking point for many people who live there \u2014 and alongside other Covid-related incidents, helped galvanize protests in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Beijing, and elsewhere across China.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“hile the protests were overwhelmingly about ending the lockdowns, we also heard some calls for an end to President Xi Jinping\u2019s surveillance state. One of the most striking images of the protests has been one of demonstrators holding up blank pieces of paper, a symbol of Chinese censorship.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s not likely to spell the end of surveillance in China. The government is already leveraging the vast amounts of information it\u2019s collected on its citizens \u2014 including cell phone location data \u2014 to crack down on those who participated in the protests.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[864,89,660,120,17],"class_list":["post-9590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-autocracy","tag-china","tag-dictatorship","tag-privacy","tag-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9591,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9590\/revisions\/9591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}