• deft@lemmy.wtfBanned from community
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    24 hours ago

    Uhhhh pretty sure China holds that title by a long shot my dude

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      17 hours ago

      In absolute numbers probably but due to size and population China tops most lists of absolute numbers so it’s not really an informative metric. In terms of per capita I’m 90% sure the US leads China in CCTV cameras.

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        17 hours ago

        No China just laps entirely. To have such a large population and also dominate the statistic of cameras per 1000 citizens mean they have millions of more cameras.

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            17 hours ago

            "Let’s first look at the top 10 cities with the most CCTV cameras per 1000 inhabitants:

            Taiyuan, China – 119.6

            Wuxi – China – 92.1

            London, United Kingdom – 67.5

            Changsha, China – 56.8

            Beijing, China – 56.2

            Hangzhou, China – 52.3

            Kunming, China – 45.0

            Qingdao, China – 44.5

            Xiamen, China – 40.3

            Harbin, China – 39.1

            Now, let’s look at the top 10 cities by CCTV density per square km:

            Chennai, India – 657

            Hyderabad, India – 480

            Harbin, China – 411

            London, United Kingdom – 399

            Xiamen, China – 385

            Chengdu, China – 350

            Taiyuan, China – 319

            Delhi, India – 289

            Kunming, China – 281

            Beijing, China – 278"

            Didn’t even read your own link. Doesn’t even mention the US, this is about the UK.

            I’m done with you liars absolutely humiliating and embarrassing for you. Lmfao

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              17 hours ago

              I literally quoted the link? Did you read it or just skip to the city comparison? Illiterate much? “absolutely humiliating and embarrassing for you. Lmfao”

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      17 hours ago

      People are going to react to this with a knee-jerk “nuh uh!” because you’re being a smug reddituer about it, but I’m going to take a different approach. China actually invests in its infrastructure so obviously it’s going to have more and newer cameras, simply because it’s actually building and expanding. In China you might be surveilled in one of the more than 1000 high speed rail stations. In the UK it might be in one of four, or more likely a low speed train station. In the US it might be a bus station.

      That’s the difference. When countries are growing and building, they’re installing cameras. Every country is going to install more and more cameras forever, the only countries that won’t are the ones that are in decline. China is growing and building faster than anyone, so they’re going to have more cameras. This needs to be taken into account.