Why I am getting trolls ?

I recently posted a harmless request asking people to share pictures of their cities and i also share mine. But suddenly, I got flooded with comments accusing me of being a spy, a foreign agent, or some kind of national security threat just for asking people to take photos of public streets.

Apparently, there’s this growing paranoia in some circles where people genuinely believe that taking pictures of regular streets is a risk to national security. Some users even claim that spies are “collecting” these photos to undermine their country. According to other notes and the translation, the regulation emphasize sensitive areas and key facilities, not just random street photography.

Yet, a bunch of people have twisted this into a mass hysteria, making up rules that don’t exist and blindly reporting posts like mine. I try to ignore it, but they keep posting.

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mattelias44over 1 year ago2

As though Niantic didn't completely map out all of the US's geography through pokemon go.

Puzzleheaded-Skin269over 1 year ago2

I can explain this. It's not a joke; it's actually a pretty common witch hunt thing on the Chinese internet. It all started with official anti-spy campaigns that got blown out of proportion by social media. Honestly, I don’t think anyone of them are CIA agents as some people said. I’ve checked out some accounts, and they're just regular folks from China who got a bit paranoid about this whole topic.

What’s funny is that even though they see themselves as protecting national security and fighting spies, there’s another group that thinks they’re the real spies, because Taiwan or the U.S. government doesn’t want normal conversations to happen.

Alirielover 1 year ago2

Don't they have Google Earth?

seuil-limiteover 1 year ago2

China does not have accurate street level map data available to non-chinese markets. If you go to Google maps or apple maps or even something like openstreetmap and compare the satellite layer against the street layer you'll find there are serious and non-trivial deviations, like entire rivers being moved. This is intentional and China is very serious about protecting its geographic data. I equally suspect that public facing satellite data is heavily augmented.

The worry is that these street level photos contain enough information to, essentially, figure out how China is communicating map level data. Probable ? No. But also why take the risk?

Cute_Lurkerover 1 year ago2

A chinese police account on Red recently posted a video warning citzens about spies and warned of anyone asking for street photos. That's probably why.

water_is_savoryover 1 year ago2

They’re joking still messed up tho

haxing7777over 1 year ago2

Ay, as a Chinese I don’t even know what those guys are thinking about

alex971085over 1 year ago1

When they ask u to post military facilities/ weapons, u will be so happy to share

According-Comb-5035over 1 year ago1

That's interesting. Sharing beautiful photography isn't inherently a problem. However, untrained people can't always tell the difference between sensitive locations and ordinary street scenes that are harmless to share. It's always a good idea to be cautious about posting anything online that reveals too much about your immediate surroundings.

gb997over 1 year ago1

young people joking around with you. they are telling you to relax and dont be so serious

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