Review: A Victim of Chinese Authoritarianism Explains Censorship and Surveillance
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After becoming the target of police harassment, the Chinese artist and journalist Ai Weiwei left his homeland for good in 2015. In a new book, On Censorship, he writes about how censorship and surveillance go hand in hand. Like a dealer who can see all the cards, Ai argues, an all-seeing government has an "absolute advantage" over dissidents.
The nexus between surveillance and censorship has a psychological aspect as well. "A primary aim of censorship is to normalize itself, to present itself as
The nexus between surveillance and censorship has a psychological aspect as well. "A primary aim of censorship is to normalize itself, to present itself as
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