The Authoritarian Boomerang Is Coming - The Sacramento Observer

China's regime collects all kinds of data worldwide. In China itself, this is taken to extremes. This primarily serves to control citizens. But the mass of data is also vulnerable to other types of access. According to analysts, this is now backfiring on party officials like a "boomerang."

The Authoritarian Boomerang Is Coming - The Sacramento Observer

By Alicé Nascimento | New York Amsterdam News | Word In BlackThis post was originally published on New York Amsterdam NewsCredit: Towfiqu Barbhuiya/Unsplash(WIB) – Lately, more people are saying that “authoritarianism is a boomerang.”In my experience, a debt crisis is the wind that carries it.Before the current crop of techno-authoritarians came to power, venture capitalists and hedge fund managers used a playbook designed to steal our futures a…

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