From Beijing, Xu Zhangrun, a former professor at Tsinghua University Law School, recently wrote an article saying that dozens of surveillance cameras were recently installed in his neighborhood.
According to Radio Television Hong Kong, Xu Zhangrun published an article titled “My home is full of probes”, saying that the neighborhood is located outside Beijing’s Sixth Ring Road, and there are nine surveillance cameras within a 50-meter radius of his residence. He quoted the workers who installed the surveillance cameras as saying that the new product can not only keep an eye on people, but also listen to the sound. Xu Zhangrun described being ambushed from all sides, a hundred kinds of consideration, a thousand kinds of attentiveness, a thousand kinds of thoughtfulness, all-round service. He wrote, “Because there is a probe overlooking the southwest, leaving the cold house unattended, so the total of nine probes to this, ten-sided ambush, a hundred kinds of consideration, a thousand kinds of attentive, ten thousand attentive, all-round service.” Xu Zhangrun’s article criticizes the authorities for using taxpayers’ hard-earned money to install surveillance systems, and the technology companies that design the surveillance probes, the upstream and downstream manufacturers that produce the equipment, and the contractors that install the systems, all make a fortune, and finally let everyone live under the camera all the time, in spring, summer, autumn and winter.
Xu Zhang Run said, “my home in front of the probe, and the thought of the probe behind a pair of eyes shady and eerie all day long in the price of staring at you, in looking after you, the heart is not mention how comfortable. Sometimes I can’t help but think blindly, that may be a pair of tired and cloudy eyes, full of bloodshot and resentment because of staring at the screen all day. Or perhaps clear eyes, as he or she that childish face, think they understand the meaning of the job, as a screw into this huge machine and proud. More likely is a set of wandering eyes, a trance mind, a cavity of insensitive spirit, they gathered in a demented body. But in either case, there is a machine in operation, there is a pair of human eyes watching, there is no doubt about it.”
Previously, Xu Zhang Yun was accused of prostitution for his words and was expelled from his chair, he earlier denied the allegations and hired a lawyer to resolve the dispute through the judicial process. He has been banned from leaving the country in recent years, but has since been hired as a researcher at the Fitzgerald Center for Research at Harvard University.
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