Your take is that changing traffic management is a violation of human rights?
It‘s even worse. You need mass surveillance and strip away human rights to do it the way China does it. And I am sorry, but that‘s not worth it. There are countless better ways to deal with climate change because in the end of the day it‘s still a self serving mission for the most part.
AES_Enjoyer@reddthat.com 1 day ago
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Your bad faith argument aside, they absolutely do use technology that violates human rights and integrate it in this system. Think about why smart cities are controversial and amp it up to 11. That‘s China managing their population. Point systems that prevent you from air travel because you dared criticize the almighty government do violate the basic human right of free speech and control traffic at the same time.
AES_Enjoyer@reddthat.com 14 hours ago
Point systems that prevent you from air travel or entering other provinces because you dared criticize the almighty government
That’s… just not real… Your understanding of Chinese policy comes from curated western sources with vested interests in putting a dystopian and totalitarian understanding of China and its government in our countries’ people (we’re both westerners). There are systems in place to prevent certain convicted criminals from freely moving around there country, but that has little to do with criticising the party.
Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 1 day ago
Which human right does this strip away?
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Privacy obviously. They collect everything about their citizens and use it in every system. They‘re not some super advanced country that simply does tech better than everyone else, they just hoard more data than anyone and use it carelessly everywhere.