[鳳凰院 凶真 Hououin Kyouma]|[alt: 黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui]@sh.itjust.works to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · edit-21 个月前Are 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-square27linkfedilinkarrow-up172arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up172arrow-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]|[alt: 黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui]@sh.itjust.works to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · edit-21 个月前message-square27linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-square[鳳凰院 凶真 Hououin Kyouma]|[alt: 黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui]@sh.itjust.worksOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 个月前GDR is one tiny country. Imagine every Chinese or every Indian started writing physical mail.
minus-squareRaivoKulli@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 个月前GDR is one tiny country so their surveillance apparatus was smaller too. China is big so they can have a bigger apparatus.
minus-squareICCrawler@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 个月前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.
minus-squareZwuzelmaus@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 个月前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.
Imagine every Chinese or every Indian started writing physical mail.
GDR is one tiny country so their surveillance apparatus was smaller too. China is big so they can have a bigger apparatus.
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.
In a large country, the percentage of mail that crosses their border is much lower than in a small country.