鳳凰院 凶真 (Hououin Kyouma)@sh.itjust.works to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · edit-210 hours agoAre physical mail generally not under surveillance? If everyone suddently ditched electronic communications and start writing letters, would governments be able to surveil everyone? (Is it practial?)message-squaremessage-square30fedilinkarrow-up155arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up152arrow-down1message-squareAre physical mail generally not under surveillance? If everyone suddently ditched electronic communications and start writing letters, would governments be able to surveil everyone? (Is it practial?)鳳凰院 凶真 (Hououin Kyouma)@sh.itjust.works to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · edit-210 hours agomessage-square30fedilinkfile-text
minus-square鳳凰院 凶真 (Hououin Kyouma)@sh.itjust.worksOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·8 hours agoGDR is one tiny country. Imagine every Chinese or every Indian started writing physical mail.
minus-squareZwuzelmaus@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 hours agoIn a large country, the percentage of mail that crosses their border is much lower than in a small country.
minus-squareRaivoKulli@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·6 hours agoGDR is one tiny country so their surveillance apparatus was smaller too. China is big so they can have a bigger apparatus.
minus-squareNoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up4·7 hours agoI mean, GDR is one tiny country but that goes for both sides of the equation. China would be able to surveil mail with the full resources of the Chinese government.
minus-squareICCrawler@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·7 hours agoAt 3 billion people, I imagine paper companies would be jumping for joy. But yeah, that sounds like it’d be a bastard to surveil.
GDR is one tiny country.
Imagine every Chinese or every Indian started writing physical mail.
In a large country, the percentage of mail that crosses their border is much lower than in a small country.
GDR is one tiny country so their surveillance apparatus was smaller too. China is big so they can have a bigger apparatus.
I mean, GDR is one tiny country but that goes for both sides of the equation. China would be able to surveil mail with the full resources of the Chinese government.
At 3 billion people, I imagine paper companies would be jumping for joy.
But yeah, that sounds like it’d be a bastard to surveil.