<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Vinnl</author><text>I&amp;#x27;d think the point is that the qualification in the headline might give people in non-authoritarian nations a false sense of security that GP is trying to warn us for.</text><parent_chain><item><author>datashow</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not sure what is your point, authoritarian or democratic does not make a difference? Both kind of nations have same kind of access to citizens&amp;#x27; private information? Both use the monitoring for the same purpose? US is throwing people who offended Trump online into jail like China is doing for Xi?&lt;p&gt;I just can&amp;#x27;t live with this kind of intentional defense of authoritarian by making nonsensical and shameless equalization.&lt;p&gt;Plug:&lt;p&gt;China Sentences Wang Yi, Christian Pastor, to 9 Years in Prison &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;30&amp;#x2F;world&amp;#x2F;asia&amp;#x2F;china-wang-yi-christian-sentence.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;30&amp;#x2F;world&amp;#x2F;asia&amp;#x2F;china-wang-yi-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Kaifeng Jewish Community Suffers New Suppression &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;bitterwinter.org&amp;#x2F;kaifeng-jewish-community-suffers-new-suppression&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;bitterwinter.org&amp;#x2F;kaifeng-jewish-community-suffers-ne...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Inside China’s Push to Turn Muslim Minorities Into an Army of Workers &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;30&amp;#x2F;world&amp;#x2F;asia&amp;#x2F;china-xinjiang-muslims-labor.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;30&amp;#x2F;world&amp;#x2F;asia&amp;#x2F;china-xinjiang...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>roenxi</author><text>&amp;quot;Authoritarian Nations are...&amp;quot; makes it sound like the same trends aren&amp;#x27;t prevalent everywhere.&lt;p&gt;The cost of monitoring and enforcing compliance with the law is dropping very rapidly. Cameras, automated monitoring systems, etc, have all blossomed since around 2007 when phones suddenly became computers and cameras in one fell swoop.&lt;p&gt;It is no longer a default expectation that someone can commit a crime without being detected. Or do anything without it being recorded in triplicate on the internet. We&amp;#x27;d better all hope we aren&amp;#x27;t doing anything the government doesn&amp;#x27;t like!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Authoritarian nations are turning the internet into a weapon</title><url>https://onezero.medium.com/authoritarian-nations-are-turning-the-internet-into-a-weapon-10119d4e9992</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>buboard</author><text>&amp;gt; authoritarian or democratic does not make a difference?&lt;p&gt;You think it it does? Democracy without freedom is an empty shell. And surveillance is antithetical to freedom</text><parent_chain><item><author>datashow</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not sure what is your point, authoritarian or democratic does not make a difference? Both kind of nations have same kind of access to citizens&amp;#x27; private information? Both use the monitoring for the same purpose? US is throwing people who offended Trump online into jail like China is doing for Xi?&lt;p&gt;I just can&amp;#x27;t live with this kind of intentional defense of authoritarian by making nonsensical and shameless equalization.&lt;p&gt;Plug:&lt;p&gt;China Sentences Wang Yi, Christian Pastor, to 9 Years in Prison &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;30&amp;#x2F;world&amp;#x2F;asia&amp;#x2F;china-wang-yi-christian-sentence.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;30&amp;#x2F;world&amp;#x2F;asia&amp;#x2F;china-wang-yi-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Kaifeng Jewish Community Suffers New Suppression &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;bitterwinter.org&amp;#x2F;kaifeng-jewish-community-suffers-new-suppression&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;bitterwinter.org&amp;#x2F;kaifeng-jewish-community-suffers-ne...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Inside China’s Push to Turn Muslim Minorities Into an Army of Workers &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;30&amp;#x2F;world&amp;#x2F;asia&amp;#x2F;china-xinjiang-muslims-labor.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;30&amp;#x2F;world&amp;#x2F;asia&amp;#x2F;china-xinjiang...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>roenxi</author><text>&amp;quot;Authoritarian Nations are...&amp;quot; makes it sound like the same trends aren&amp;#x27;t prevalent everywhere.&lt;p&gt;The cost of monitoring and enforcing compliance with the law is dropping very rapidly. Cameras, automated monitoring systems, etc, have all blossomed since around 2007 when phones suddenly became computers and cameras in one fell swoop.&lt;p&gt;It is no longer a default expectation that someone can commit a crime without being detected. Or do anything without it being recorded in triplicate on the internet. We&amp;#x27;d better all hope we aren&amp;#x27;t doing anything the government doesn&amp;#x27;t like!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Authoritarian nations are turning the internet into a weapon</title><url>https://onezero.medium.com/authoritarian-nations-are-turning-the-internet-into-a-weapon-10119d4e9992</url></story>