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Chinese database details 2.4 million influential people, their kids, addresses, and how to press their buttons

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I'm not joking. But you, on the other hand, I'm wondering... You've not heard of the US surveillance programs, their no-fly lists, stingrays, asking for your social network IDs at the border? All on ElReg.

Here in France, the official numbers are of about 10000 people that are monitored by the government, who have not been convicted of anything, but are deemed to be "of interest", sometime merely because a neighbor sent an anonymous letter. They're not made aware of it. In some cases, that blocks their career, and they're still not made aware of it. There's no appeal or anything they can do. It's well-known, what I told you was on TV and radio.

But since some of those people are brown-skinned, nobody cares. Actually, some mainstream politicians repeatedly said all the brown people on the list should be put in concentration camps, indefinitely.

So remind me again - what is China doing, exactly?

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