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Inside China's High-Tech Penal Colony with Darren Byler

Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast

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The Surveillance of the Sword

In 20 16, they built a system of over nine thousand surveillance hubs that are called people's convenience police stations. And so as people move through space, there, stopped at these hubs, and that's typically where they had their phones scanned. Most people had their phone scanned dozens of times. It's like when if you get pulled over f r speeding, they take your license and they like to run you through the system.

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