Remember, with the Great Firewall: "China is the prototype." (My words, back when.)<p>They started off purchasing and as an initial market as well as testing ground for Western technology and Western technology companies.<p>Now, China has gained the technology and sophistication to roll their own.<p>But that doesn't mean they won't market it, both commercially and to aid their allies in creating and maintaining similar forms of governance and stability (at the tip of an connection, if not a gun).<p>So, they may be building this domestically, from the ground up. Nonetheless, the expression remains and remains apt, and concerning: "China is the prototype."<p>Many people around the world, in government and in private business, continue to express enormous interest in this type of monitoring and control.<p>In the U.K., of all places, that "bastion of democracy", leadership is openly advocating for the ability to monitor and censure all connections.<p>They are going to control with whom you communicate and associate, by way of real world penalties and controls.<p>In the U.S., what greater limit on "freedom to associate" than taking away one's ability to travel?<p>"It can't, won't happen here."<p>Ahuh. Just like outsourcing was going to elevate our employment prospects and wages. "We'll be the managers."<p>How did that work out?<p>Automation is going to get a lot more done with less hands. How do you think they are going to decide who benefits?