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The point is that reporting on NK's and China's surveillance of their own citizens is framed as dystopian. The framing only works if they claim that such surveillance is dystopian.

Of course elected representatives don't necessarily have the same opinions as news reporters. But you would expect consistency within the same publication






“This is absolutely horrific and they should be ashamed… so anyway, just out of curiosity, do you think we could do something like this?”

Hypocrisy at it’s finest.




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