China is well known to be a surveillance state, but according to Jordan Peterson, the United States is not far behind.
Last week, he told a parliamentary committee:
“Currently, there are 700 million surveillance cameras installed in Communist-controlled China. These electronic eye-equipped systems can not only recognize faces from a distance, but also detect facial features that are hidden. It is the most complete surveillance device ever imagined, with the ability to recognize gait itself when hidden or obscured.”
This invasive surveillance software is a frighteningly misguided rogue in the famous sci-fi movie “Terminator” series, which features artificially intelligent robots desperately trying to protect themselves by destroying humanity. It was given the eerie name “Skynet” after the directional technology. ”
China’s Skynet system gives government ‘access to everything’ [citizens] Electronic possession, including “access to savings and travel.” Their “access to the world may be reduced to zero if…” [their] Being “cut off from all activities” such as “driving, shopping, working, eating, sheltering, and even socializing with friends and family” because your “social credit score is above an arbitrary minimum” become.
“This also opens up opportunities for the government to extract slave-like labor from the people. [social credit] Score points and continue to be a member of human society,” Peterson warned.
China’s overbearing Skynet system sounds like something out of a dystopian novel, but it’s all too real, and Peterson says America is heading in the same direction.
“Why is this relevant to people in the West?” he asked.
“Well, the technology adopted by the Chinese Communist Party is an extension of Western technology, because we once fell prey to the terrible temptation of lockdown, which the Chinese Communist Party adopted in the face of a hypothetical crisis. ” he said, referring to COVID-19. Pandemic.
Furthermore, Western countries believe that “the convenience of universal and automatic recognition of identity, and in part, the full range of problems currently facing us, justify the expansion of the scope of security and social security.” “It’s easy to fall victim to a system like Skynet because it’s so easy to exploit,” Peterson said.
“We all live too much in a virtual world as a result of our purchasing habits and electronically mediated means of communication, and as a result we ourselves… data equivalent to our modern footprint.” has been reduced to “an image of our identity.” “Increasingly, invisible corporate brokers are buying and selling.”
These “brokers” use that information for promotional purposes. “To sell us what we desperately, carelessly, and conveniently want,” Peterson said, but what most people don’t realize is that that information is “tracked, Please monitor us and punish us for everything we say and do.”
“The government can teeth In collusion with these corporate agents, we create a complete picture of not just our actions but our thoughts and words, allowing us to map, reward, and punish deviations from our desired objectives. It is. ”
“The development of digital identities and currencies…will facilitate the development of a surveillance state, the scope of which could hardly have been imagined by totalitarian pessimists like George Orwell.”
“The ultimate fascist collusion between big, selfish corporations and paranoid, security-obsessed, anti-human governments is becoming increasingly likely. ‘With nothing to hide, ‘There’s nothing to be afraid of’ will be the slogan of those most likely to face surveillance,” Peterson warned.
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