Sometimes I get some pieces when scanning foreign news that make me laugh. Take this piece out of People's Daily:
Signs of "black eye" will be put up next month in camera monitored venues in Beijing, accompanied with words in Chinese and English "you are entering a camera monitored zone".
According to the municipal public security bureau, suspicious acts or objects detected by the cameras will be automatically reported to the command center.
Intimate acts of lovers may be initially categorized as "kidnapping" or "robbery" by the computers, which are programmed to be sensitive to violations of "safe distance", and reported to the command center.
So kissing or possibly holding hands would be flagged for human review? Looks like the morality police aren't giving up any time soon.
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