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Surveillance State
- Inside China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control
- Narrated by: Brian Nishii
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
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Summary
Where is the line between digital utopia and digital police state?
Surveillance State tells the gripping, startling, and detailed story of how China’s Communist Party is building a new kind of political control: shaping the will of the people through the sophisticated—and often brutal—harnessing of data.
It is a story born in Silicon Valley and America’s “War on Terror,” and now playing out in alarming ways on China’s remote Central Asian frontier. As a minority separatist movement strains against Party control, China’s leaders have built a dystopian police state that keeps millions under the constant gaze of security forces armed with AI. But across the country in the city of Hangzhou, the government is weaving a digital utopia, where technology helps optimize everything from traffic patterns to food safety to emergency response.
Award-winning journalists Josh Chin and Liza Lin take listeners on a journey through the new world China is building within its borders, and beyond. Telling harrowing stories of the people and families affected by the Party’s ambitions, Surveillance State reveals a future that is already underway—a new society engineered around the power of digital surveillance.
A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press.
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- Double D
- 06-09-23
A Natural Sequel to Maria Ressa's "How To Stand Up
To a Dictator". "Surveillance State" vindicates Ressa's faith in independent, investigative journalists and their duty to uphold truth and free speech, whilst Ressa's "Dictator" is the natural precursor to what is described in this harrowing description of what happens to the biggest of Big Data when the degree of data gathering she witnessed seemingly pioneered by the likes of Facebook (and participates in herself as an online newspaper/social media site editor herself) is exponentially multiplied to encompass a state as large as the 1.4bn souls in the People's Republic of China; what they can do with it when the people themselves are already conditioned to have no real concept of privacy from authorities due to the previous 60 years of "socialism"; and when a re-invigorated leader like Xi Jin Ping decides he wishes to create a "harmonious" state modeled on the Ideal Han Chinese.... which doesn't include Muslim or Tibetan/Buddhist ideology (in my ignorance, I didn't realise Tibet was a Chinese territory, I thought it was an independent state) or even the Uyghur or Taiwanese language (likewise, it was only 2 years ago I realised only 14 countries recognised Taiwan as an independent state, now only 8).
S Whilst only a few of us are currently disdaining the looming complete digitisation of currency in the West, trying to fend it off, or at least slow it down.... Here it is and more... including some of what China has been doing in Africa and the Caribbean.
This is a comprehensively researched, incredibly well-written book which, honestly, every adult should read (along with Ressa's book) to gain some measure of smart savvy which might even lead to online accountability!
Brian Nishii does his usual excellent job of narration. I coukd listen to him endlessly.
Highly recommended.
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- Mark Hayes
- 12-12-22
Scary subject, regardless of where you live
Very well researched, and very well written. Fascinating subject that really opens your eyes to the reality of surveillance technology in the modern world.
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- Luis1989
- 16-10-22
Highly recommended
Highly recommended. It is a thoroughly researched book that is also very well written and narrated.
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