Chapter 891: Surveillance and Privacy

It's better to save yourself than to expect others to save you.

In this world, people ultimately must live independently.

Yet the entire social environment of Daxia has constantly been instilling rules and kindness into the lower classes.

Put bluntly, it's about domesticating you into sheep, making it easy for others to take and seize as they please.

In society, acts of oppression keep emerging one after another.

Treating ordinary people as weeds, cattle, horses, livestock—there are countless such instances.

Especially now, this money-driven society.

Many things have already become nakedly blatant.

The reason Yang Qing is so bold and continually causes trouble for some people is

The fundamental reason is that those people have already formed an entrenched social stratum.

Relying on them to change themselves, in Yang Qing's view, is becoming increasingly difficult.

Now it just so happens that the cabinet is carrying out a major cleanup.

Yang Qing is now adding some pressure on them.

Under this dual effect, perhaps it can make those increasingly arrogant people restrain themselves a bit.

Of course, Yang Qing has another reason.

He is drawing fire for Chen Feng.

To reduce the shackles on him.

Otherwise, as a vanguard, Chen Feng wouldn't know how many people are watching him.

He wouldn't even know how much pressure he faces from people.

The best defense is offense.

Now they not only have to face the cabinet, but also face the lower-class pressure stirred up by Yang Qing, and also face the extermination plot being hatched abroad by Thirteen Hall and others.

They have been tied down with a large amount of energy, so their attention naturally diverted to Qiongzhou has greatly decreased.

And once Qiongzhou completes its own transformation.

The impact on them will be enormous.

This is a war.

A war without gunpowder.

Yang Qing's live broadcast room has several billion viewers.

The influence it brings is naturally also enormous.

Wang Li felt as if he had kicked a hornet's nest.

He didn't dare continue chatting with Yang Qing.

His small frame truly couldn't withstand it.

So he hastily said goodbye and left.

Watching the fleeing voice connection, Yang Qing gave a light chuckle.

He signaled Tian Weiwei to connect the next one.

The person who came was a young man named Xing Xingyao.

He is a child heavily influenced by the 'wumao'.

Although Yang Qing has done so many programs, he still yearns for abroad.

Moreover, he is very confident that this time he can definitely make Yang Qing shut up.

"Hello, Elder Yang."

"I'm very happy to be able to connect with you."

"Hello to the friends in the live broadcast room as well."

"Today I have a question, which is probably also everyone's doubt."

"I hope Elder Yang can give a reasonable explanation."

"My question is, are the surveillance cameras spread throughout Daxia infringing on everyone's privacy? If cameras are a good thing, why hasn't Yingjiang popularized them?"

"Is it better to protect privacy like Yingjiang does, or to ignore our privacy like we do?"

"Moreover, if someone uses these devices to deliberately target certain people,"

"who will protect us?"

"Exactly, what I want to say is, those who arrest people across regions and prevent victims from filing complaints,"

"Surveillance equipment, once abused, do the victims still have hope?"

"Must we only fight with our lives?"

The question is very sharp, and this young man is smart, hiding his real issue.

After Yang Qing heard it, he roughly figured it out.

Actually, he was just saying Yingjiang is good.

However, his problem is also reality.

Yang Qing did not directly answer his question, but instead countered with a question.

"Do you think everyone would prefer a safe Daxia, or would they rather have a Daxia where triads run rampant, joyriders race wildly, theft is rampant, scams and deceit are everywhere, and going out at night requires extreme caution?"

Xing Xingyao was puzzled.

"What does this have to do with my question?"

Yang Qing's expression was solemn.

"More than ten years ago, Daxia was like this."

More than ten years ago, Daxia didn't have that much surveillance.

Nowadays, safety isn't because the government is so awesome.

It's purely thanks to surveillance.

This is the change brought to people by technology.

So, what do you think everyone will choose?

Is safety more important, or is part of privacy more important?

Xing Xingyao did not hesitate.

For me, privacy is more important.

Yang Qing let out a scornful laugh.

That's what you think.

I believe that ninety percent of people would think safety is more important.

Because this kind of safety benefits ordinary people the most.

When it comes to safety issues, ordinary people are the most affected.

Without surveillance, many unscrupulous people specialize in stealing patients' life-saving money near hospitals.

Without surveillance, extortion by feigning injury would become a rampant industry.

Without surveillance, motorcycle gangs would race wildly through the streets.

Without surveillance, electric vehicle batteries would be stolen every few days.

Without surveillance, someone would dare to openly abduct children in the city.

But the privacy you think of is meaningless privacy in public places.

When you go out, countless people are watching you—what privacy do you want?

Don't people's eyes invade your privacy?

If this privacy can be seen by others' eyes, why can't cameras see it?

How much value does this kind of privacy, which anyone can see, have for you?

Unless you're doing something shameful and don't want to leave a record.

For example, having affairs or seducing married women.

So, because of your immoral behavior, you should pay for it with the safety of all Daxia people.

Xing Xingyao's confident argument was refuted by Yang Qing until it was worthless.

Even those of some age in the live broadcast room recalled the days of the past.

Comparing the two, they naturally prefer the present days.

Who would want to live the kind of days where one had to be careful every time they went out?

Even further back, they even thought of the days when they sewed pockets into their underwear.

Back then, who hadn't been stolen from or extorted?

Nowadays, with greater safety, even if a phone is left in a restaurant for half a day, it's still there.

This is safety, and where does safety come from?

They used to think it was because public order had improved, but they never thought about it deeply.

Now they understand that it's not because public order improved, but because cameras bring people behavioral norms.

As for privacy?

Who cared about privacy back then? They wished they could be monitored all along the way, so they wouldn't be stolen from or extorted.

To them, the young people nowadays demanding privacy are just being pretentious.

Naturally, Xing Xingyao lacks the understanding of those who have experienced the past.

He felt only frustration and anger after being rebutted by Yang Qing.

If surveillance is so good, why isn't it used abroad?

Then shouldn't it be promoted?

Yang Qing looked at him as if he were too young.

Yingjiang is vast and sparsely populated, with its operations spread out widely.

If they installed surveillance like Daxia does, Yingjiang would go bankrupt.

Have you done the math?

One surveillance camera costs anywhere from a few hundred to several thousand, tens of thousands, or even over ten thousand.

According to Yingjiang's fiscal budget, can they afford it?

Moreover, their principle is that whoever pays gets the service.

On what basis would they pay for ordinary people?

In wealthy districts, where everyone is rich, do rich people need the safety that dense cameras bring?

They don't need it at all, because they have FBI protection twenty-four hours a day.

Haven't you heard? In Yingjiang, when an alarm is raised, police arrive at the scene within one to five minutes.