I don’t know if this is just my imagination.In recent years, I feel like the whole world is slowly moving toward this direction:“Because we need to protect people, we need to monitor them.”As a Taiwanese person, I’m very familiar with this kind of logic from the CCP next door.But for some reason, I feel like more and more of the world is also moving in this direction.For example:* Asking an important open-source infrastructure project like Linux to add age verification. * Credit card companies asking Japan to follow all kinds of unreasonable rules. * Using courts to force companies, in the name of human rights or safety, to monitor cloud data. * Requiring VPNs to be controlled or regulated.These are just some simple examples. I don’t have detailed statistics, but I really feel like there have been more and more cases like this recently.It is often wrapped in something morally justified, and then surveillance and control are introduced underneath it.The CCP next door has always used thi...