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Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras? (www.usatoday.com)
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A Super Bowl ad for Ring security cameras boasting how the company can scan neighborhoods for missing dogs has prompted some customers to remove or even destroy their cameras.

Online, videos of people removing or destroying their Ring cameras have gone viral. One video posted by Seattle-based artist Maggie Butler shows her pulling off her porch-facing camera and flipping it the middle finger.

Butler explained that she originally bought the camera to protect against package thefts, but decided the pet-tracking system raised too many concerns about government access to data.

"They aren't just tracking lost dogs, they're tracking you and your neighbors," Butler said in the video that has more than 3.2 million views.

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[–] 8 points 8 months ago (3 children)

According to google (I am not a lawyer) I don't have it anymore the moment I got US citizenship since they don't do dual citizenship and honestly I don't really want to live in mainland China.

If I had to leave the US, I rather go to Canada, Australia, or perhaps EU for asylum...

Or perhaps Taiwan, or maybe Singapore.

I know from your post history, you seem to like PRC, but please understand that I have a personal grudge against the CCP, I was the second child (precisely a second son so there was no exemption whatsoever) in my family born during the One Child Policy, I really hate the fact that they tried to terminate me when I was still a fetus, then afterwards deny my existence by refusing to issue my legal documents until they made my parents pay a huge fine... which feels like extortion IMO.

I feel like my existence in China is "illegal", I feel rejected. I don't wanna be there.

I have an existential crisis over it... I'm not even supposed to be alive in this world, I'm an anomoly.

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    According to google (I am not a lawyer) I don’t have it anymore the moment I got US citizenship

    Yes, but if the US says you never actually had citizenship, maybe China will accept that.

    If I had to leave the US, I rather go to Canada, Australia, or perhaps EU for asylum

    I've heard they've made it harder to get asylum, and there's often poor outcomes for asylum seekers, after Arab Spring. If you have a US passport and money to start a business or any extended family, you can stay for quite awhile. This applies to most of Asia too where US passport gets you 90 days on arrival, or 90 day evisa for vietnam. US passports are pretty powerful.

    Or perhaps Taiwan, or maybe Singapore.

    Never been to either, can't tell you about it.

    I have an existential crisis over it… I’m not even supposed to be alive in this world, I’m an anomoly.

    Eh, it's a different place now. My family who worked there in the 90s and 2000s had completely alien experiences to when I went there in last year. All I'm saying is it'd be wise to be aware of what options you have.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Eh, it’s a different place now. My family who worked there in the 90s and 2000s had completely alien experiences to when I went there in last year. All I’m saying is it’d be wise to be aware of what options you have.

    Mental health acceptance is stilk a huge issue. My mom told me about a story where allegedly someone in either her village or a neighboring village (can't even understand what exactly she said because I'm not as fluent in Cantonese as English) had a family that has a son that "doesn't act normal" and instead of trying to help, they perceived him as a threat and just locked him inside the house, barely treated him like a human being and only fed him out of pity... like an animal on a barn...

    And also my mom just told me a story on WeChat about in Guangdong, an autistic person that got accepted into a University but then they found out about his autism so they expelled him for that after he already got accepted. So yeah... that would've caused outrage in the west. There is not really an ADA equivalent in China.

    My mother kinda lowkey hates me for having depression... can't imagine what's its like in China, everyone would just call me "lazy" or "useless eater" or some shit... China is very conservative, its MAGAland but with Chinese Characteristics.

    Also, if I posted any of my posts that I posted here about my mother's behaviors on the Chinese internet... oh jeez they're gonna just attack me for being "unfilial", at least westerners sort of sympathize. In China, parents are always right, the kids are always wrong.

    My ideal country would be one with a lot of Asians (or more specifically, ethnic Han Chinese) but that are westernized. Cuz then I have safety of not having to deal with racism, but also not having to deal with conservative culture bullshit.

    Like just build one massive island then gather all the Westernized ethnic Han Chinese there, build our own country, without authoritarian bullshit, then I'd be safe.

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    Mental health acceptance is stilk a huge issue

    Yes, definitely. Mental health (and regular healthcare in some specific ways) definitely has room for improvement. Only panhandler I remember was a guy asking people for money, with what looked like his mother, saying he had depression.

    Also, if I posted any of my posts that I posted here about my mother’s behaviors on the Chinese internet

    Depends on who the audience is. I've seen quite a few Chinese, particularly LGBT+ posting about their parents on xhs, but presumably there's not a lot of boomers in their algo.

    My ideal country would be one with a lot of Asians (or more specifically, ethnic Han Chinese) but that are westernized

    If you have Chinese citizenship, but your hukou is mainland China, can you get a job in Hong Kong? I didn't like the few hours that I spent there, it's expensive and charmless, but it's pretty westernized.

    Also maybe talk to people who live there, your mother sounds like she might have a specific agenda in which experiences she shares. That's not to say abusive families aren't a major issue. One chinese was confused that americans don't beat their children, "even if the child is intentionally misbehaving". She seemed to accept "children learn from their parents, so hit someone who doesn't do what you want isn't something I want to teach" tho. I didn't investigate if that meant she sometimes beats the kid for behavior she believes is unintentional too.

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