Comment on Are physical mail generally not under surveillance? If everyone suddently ditched electronic communications and start writing letters, would governments be able to practically surveil everyone?

• Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org ⁨36⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  In a large country, the percentage of mail that crosses their border is much lower than in a small country.

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• RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  GDR is one tiny country so their surveillance apparatus was smaller too. China is big so they can have a bigger apparatus.

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• NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I mean, GDR is one tiny country but that goes for both sides of the equation. China would be able to surveil mail with the full resources of the Chinese government.

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• ICCrawler@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  At 3 billion people, I imagine paper companies would be jumping for joy.

  But yeah, that sounds like it’d be a bastard to surveil.

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