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NY Times publishes hit job on anti-war activists; solidarity must be the answer (www.workers.org)

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Unlike others, Singham actually did give away significant parts of his fortune. He gave it to leftist causes — and that’s why he, as well as his life partner Jodie Evans, a founder of Code Pink and a leading political activist, were targeted.

ETA: NYT Reveals That a Tech Mogul Likes China—and That McCarthyism Is Alive and Well

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

China the most surveilled nation? The US has the largest number of CCTV cameras per capita

The total number of CCTV cameras installed in China is 200 million, compared to 50 million for the US

China has four times as many surveillance cameras installed than the US, but is just behind America when it comes to number of CCTV cameras per capita

[+] Alteon -10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Your source is literally from China mate. No way that they'd have a pro-China viewpoint.

Atleast mines from the UK: Source

And they estimate that number to be over 540 million cameras nationwide...or around 373 cameras per 1,000 people.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Lmao "your source is from China so it's not truthful, mine is from the UK, they wouldn't lie or misrepresent facts about their official enemy".

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

From the report that the article cites.

According to the data analysed by PreciseSecurity.com and collected by CompariTech

Both companies are from the UK.

As an aside, journalists for news organisations rarely do research on their own. More often they ingest studies done by other dedicated organisations and reproduce them in a form that appeals to their audience. When scrutinising news articles it's good to see what the primary source is.

[–] Alteon -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If we're comparing US to China I tried to use a source outside of both countries. I'd expect it to massage the wording a bit on some stuff (especially in an effort to avoid making the UK look bad) but I would think that the numbers aren't terribly off.

Look, if we were discussing cameras in the UK. This wouldn't be my go to source. I also dont want to use a Chinese source on Chinese surveillance...you know that they monitor what goes out of China...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not sure what your point is.

[–] Alteon -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Your first comment in response to mine stated that the US had more cameras per capita. I pointed out that your source was from a Chinese newspaper and provided where I got my source from.

We don't like each other's sources. I claimed that atleast mine was not coming from either of the two countries (US and China)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

But I showed you that the source was research done by two British companies.