The Chinese React to TikTok 'Refugees' Migrating to Rednote | Street Interview (youtube.com)
‘It seems Weseterners are more sensitive to [issues involving big data]. But for us, big data can sometimes be quite useful. For example, it helps me understand my own daily preferences. In tihs regard, it’s quite practical.'
For one, I'm not sure why this woman thinks she needs big data to understand her own daily preferences, unless she somehow needs to compare hers with those of the mass of others.
More importantly, we can say that Chinese Revolution, in which millions of citizens were executed, criminalized, randomly charged and punished, and starved, by their government, simply by the government directing government forces, could never have happened in the US, because the US is individually armed and does believe in any obligation to adhere to demands of the government that conflict with their own views. Also, US citizens are connected through communications, so they can't currently be tricked into believing that resistence is futile or not popular. It's pretty easy to see how this is absolutely necessary to their continued individual security though. Even people in the US had become a bit more nonchalant about this, though, until the government's pandemic measures.
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