Part 1: The CCP seeks to make Chinese people so afraid that they will just dare use nothing but WeChat
10/12/2023【Where Big Tech Meets the CCP’s Surveillance State】Congressman Mike Gallagher & Nathan Freitas, founder and director of “The Guardian Project”: From keyword filtering and domain blocking to the current deep-packet inspection, the CCP has been advancing internet censorship technologies and Internet Authoritarianism since the Great Firewall era. The CCP seeks to make Chinese people so afraid that they will just dare use nothing but WeChat.
Part 2: The CCP decided long ago to establish an all-encompassing surveillance state
10/12/2023【Where Big Tech Meets the CCP’s Surveillance State】Valentin Weber, Senior Research Fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations: The CCP decided long ago to establish an all-encompassing surveillance state. Initially, the CCP was focused on information control, but it has now extended to physical control. So, if individuals post content online that the CCP doesn’t like, it will affect their offline lives too.
Part 3: Communist China has ramped up its surveillance system
10/12/2023【Where Big Tech Meets the CCP’s Surveillance State】Nathan Freitas, founder and director of “The Guardian Project”: Communist China has ramped up its surveillance system. By simply installing an app on your cell phone, the state can get a clear picture of what you are doing. With more and more new cell phones on the market being made in Communist China, there are concerns that the horrific surveillance system that the CCP has been conducting on the Uyghurs will be exported to other countries.
