9 July 2018 — WSWS
Day: July 10, 2018
NYT Sees 'Dystopia' in Chinese Surveillance—Which Looks a Lot Like US Surveillance By Jim Naureckas
10 July 2018 — FAIR
In China, the New York Times (7/8/18) sees facial recognition as a sign of dystopia; in the West, the Times(7/9/18) reports on Amazon‘s promotion of the same technology as a “reputational risk.”
There’s a category of story we call “Them Not Us”—US media reporting on problems abroad, and seemingly not noticing that they have the same problems at home. There’s a great example of that in the New York Times (7/8/18), headlined “Inside China’s Dystopian Dreams: AI, Shame and Lots of Cameras.”
The New Dark Age 