[matkoniecz]

1) there is nothing incoherent in theoretical "we want obedient citizens under our full control, not controlled by Chinese government"

2) from your own link "But are we really a Big Brother state? You may think that the government is behind this high level of surveillance, but the BSIA found that only around 1 in 70 cameras are owned by local authorities"

[khiqxj]

And 99% of them go to the same cloud crap where a single entity can gain control of them all at once (I don't know if this is the current state, but you get the point, it's the inevitable state, be it one with 99% or maybe 5 groups with equal share. In the past all that was needed to take control of a security camera product was ../).