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Michael Crain: “Their Internet's monitored, their phones are monitored.”

Featuring: Michael Crain, Fort Worth City Council, District 3 | Texas

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Haircolor Confessional “Councilman Michael D. Crain of Fort Worth,TX” S2E11

Published | Video Starts at 08:48

It's the government that wants to control and wants to understand what everybody's doing. And they still want to admit Tiananmen Square actually happened only because you have the ability to see, Their Internet's monitored, their phones are monitored. Every single major thing that we think of, like Google or Venmo or something, they have their own software that does that. Instead of Google, they use Baidu or whatever. (08:48–08:52)

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Asserts that the Chinese government monitors internet and phone communications.

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