Please go bully these nerds in the top comment threads, I don't have an account.
They're checking digital train tickets... Holy shit, westerners will just believe anything...
They're checking digital train tickets
But they're doing it EVILY and vowing to execute Uyghurs at the same time.
I wasn't sure if it was train tickets or covid passports. Given that everyone is masked up in the video, I suspect it was taken during zero covid and the police here were checking to make sure no one who had tested positive and/or wasn't vaccinated was traveling somewhere to risk spreading it. I could be wrong about that, but either way it certainly isn't "checking for illegal apps" like the title claimed.
The PA announcement says that they're checking tickets, please have your ticket ready.
Here: https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/18/returning-travellers-made-to-hand-over-phones-and-passcodes-to-australian-border-force Sorry wrong country!
Lmao
I was in China recently and never once saw anything like this. VPN use is widespread and officially sanctioned in many cases (for businesses, colleges, etc.) and I have no idea what an “illegal app” would even be. It also doesn’t really make sense to assume that’s what’s going on in the video given the context. It looks like they’re on a train? Why would police go on a train to check everyone’s phones for illegal apps? Seems totally ridiculous.
EDIT: This is NOT "checking for illegal apps without a warrant". What's going on in the video (I'm pretty damn sure) is that police are checking people's covid passports, which is an ID setup in WeChat (WeChat is used for everything in China) that contains information on vaccination status and last test results. Under the zero covid rules, vaccinations and negative tests were required to travel on trains and other forms of transport, which is why the video is shot on a train/subway. More info on that here: https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/15/asia/china-coronavirus-qr-code-intl-hnk/index.html
EDIT #2: Someone else brought up checking train tickets, and it could be that, but I still strongly suspect it was checking people's covid status during the zero covid period.
Hahahah wow
The CCP would very easily know of any “dummy” phone you bought because it’d be tied to your social credit score.
https://old.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/15ghdkb/police_in_china_checking_phones_for_illegal_apps/jujngx8/
These people really think they're having serious political discussions and then they whip out the "social credit score" nonsense
Just legions of credulous cretins taking this at face value and refusing to ask for a source.
I'm wondering how long until this happens in the US. It's one of hte next steps after this facial ID shit or whatever the current anti-porn/anti-encryption crusade is. Eventually they'll restrict devices from running unsigned software at the hardware level.
I'm wondering how long until this happens in the US.
Isn't this already happening in the US at the border?
I don't know about the Southern border, but the TSA can search your phone without a warrant and can demand passwords.
Oh, by "border" I was thinking of TSA inspection lol thanks for the correction
That that have to hand them over for physical checks tells me that they're not totally backdoored by the Chinese government to begin with. The US government on the other hand definitely has backdoors and will be able to just generate a list of any device with banned software on it and hand it over to local SWAT teams.
So in China literally everything is done through WeChat (EDIT: or AliPay), including payments and government services. During zero covid, to prevent spread, the Chinese government introduced a vaccination passport that shows whether or not someone was vaccinated and the results of their last test. This was required for travel, and considering the video was taken on a train, I'm pretty sure it's just the police checking covid status to make sure people are allowed to use train travel under the zero covid rules. The whole thing about checking for "illegal apps" without a warrant is some garbage the reddit poster made up.
This is pretty similar to my experience as well. I only used AliPay for actual payments just because WePay required a Chinese bank account and so was off limits to foreigners. I did, however, book tickets to places through WeChat, and it seemed like all of those services were on WeChat, though maybe there were also similar services on AliPay that I wasn't aware of.
Nice. I’m no longer there, but good to know WePay is an option in the future.
supposedly tencent sissypee agents own reddit and censor anti-china content according to libs but this post slipped through and got 1500 comments + 16.7k upvotes before being deleted for being blatantly fake
damn that's interesting
