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China’s latest “smart” public toilet rollout is drawing backlash after videos revealed a new system that rations toilet paper behind ads and paywalls. One viral clip from China Insider shows a woman forced to scan a QR code and watch an advertisement just to receive a single strip of paper. The dispenser then offers more for a small fee—charging 0.5 yuan (about $0.07) per strip.

This isn’t the country’s first attempt to tech-police public restrooms. Back in 2017, tourist sites installed facial recognition systems that limited users to one 60-centimeter strip every nine minutes. That policy was later adjusted to ten minutes. But the newest version, tied to mobile payments and ads, has ignited fresh criticism online. Many are calling it invasive and dystopian, with some vowing to bypass the system altogether by carrying their own toilet paper.

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If I’m watching ads for TP, I’m shit**in on the floor.
 
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They are probably switching on the phone camera as well.
All electric cars and some other newer cars have microphones and cameras inside and outside.
MG and all other Chinese cars no doubt download everything for whatever reason. So if you have an MG, apart from knowing exactly where you have been. Beijing also knows what everyone in the car looks like and what is said. You may even have an MG app on your phone to further assist them in their weird authoritarian obsession. Mind you silicone valley isn't much less intrusive.
 
Cotswold said:
They are probably switching on the phone camera as well.
All electric cars and some other newer cars have microphones and cameras inside and outside.
MG and all other Chinese cars no doubt download everything for whatever reason. So if you have an MG, apart from knowing exactly where you have been. Beijing also knows what everyone in the car looks like and what is said. You may even have an MG app on your phone to further assist them in their weird authoritarian obsession. Mind you silicone valley isn't much less intrusive.
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We now have a mass proliferation of license plate readers so anyone can find out where you have been driving at any given time.
 
I am reminded of the character John Spartan from the movie Demolition Man, in which Officer Spartan is brought out of cryosleep to help deal with a criminal who also escapes cryosleep. Jonh discovers that in the future, toilets don't use paper any more. Instead, they have three seashells - which are never fully explained, though we can guess. At first bewildered, he then remembers that you get a printed "public vulgarity" notice if you use bad language. So he curses up a storm, takes a fist-full of printed tickets in hand, and heads for the toilet.

Which leads to the question of whether you guys know about country outhouses that have red corncobs and white corncobs, and the proper way to use them.
 
KitaYama said:
China’s latest “smart” public toilet rollout is drawing backlash after videos revealed a new system that rations toilet paper behind ads and paywalls. One viral clip from China Insider shows a woman forced to scan a QR code and watch an advertisement just to receive a single strip of paper. The dispenser then offers more for a small fee—charging 0.5 yuan (about $0.07) per strip.

This isn’t the country’s first attempt to tech-police public restrooms. Back in 2017, tourist sites installed facial recognition systems that limited users to one 60-centimeter strip every nine minutes. That policy was later adjusted to ten minutes. But the newest version, tied to mobile payments and ads, has ignited fresh criticism online. Many are calling it invasive and dystopian, with some vowing to bypass the system altogether by carrying their own toilet paper.

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Someone commented on social media :
If I’m watching ads for TP, I’m shit**in on the floor.
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Wow ... I do admire countries that have a lot of public toilets, though, just out there in the streets, it's kinda cool and I wish the USA did that.
We have to lean on the good graces of a public business, a few have public restrooms thankfully.
 
Isaac said:
I wish the USA did that.
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Maybe you're too young to remember but they used to be everywhere. Even my town which was < 50,000 residents had one downtown. Vandalism killed them. I'm pretty sure vandalism is a death penalty offense in China so they are safe there;)
 
BlueSpruce said:
We now have a mass proliferation of license plate readers so anyone can find out where you have been driving at any given time.
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I think I mentioned in a prior thread about the license plate reader database I was demoing with some 80 billion records. You can certainly figure out a lot about the vehicle and the people who operate it. You can track down where they live and work fairly easy, roads they frequent, and places they go. We just got the quote on cost the other day and we're waiting to see if we have funding. It's a little over $60K a year.
 
Isaac said:
Wow ... I do admire countries that have a lot of public toilets, though, just out there in the streets, it's kinda cool and I wish the USA did that.
We have to lean on the good graces of a public business, a few have public restrooms thankfully.
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New York City used to have many public pay toilets until the 1970's. Each subway stop had 10 cent pay toilets. Several had condom dispensers. The days of pay toilets, cigarette machines, pay phones are long gone. Theft, vandalism, and maintenance were the major causes.
 
Pat Hartman said:
I'm pretty sure vandalism is a death penalty offense in China so they are safe there
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You're going too hard on China.
If your statement was true, by the amount of Chinese vandalism clips I see in TikTok, I think their population would have been decreased by now.

I don't know the exact sentence for vandalism in China, But Chatgpt's telling me it's detention (a few days) and a low amount of fine. (you can check for more detailed result if you wish)
Administrative penalty for Minor vandalism of ordinary property (graffiti, small damage) : detention (a few days), a fine.
Damage to property in more serious cases (large value, repeated damage, risk to public safety) may rise to criminal charges under the Criminal Law; fixed-term imprisonment possible, along with fines.
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Article 324 of the Criminal Law (Crimes Against Cultural Relics): “Whoever intentionally damages or destroys valuable cultural relics under State protection … shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than 3 years or criminal detention and shall also, or shall only, be fined; if the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years and shall also be fined.”

Cultural Relics Protection Law of the People's Republic of China

It's sad to see that most people from west cultures think the order in Asian countries are because of their strict laws, and not because of their culture and understanding and respecting the law. Maybe it makes them feel better and gives them a reason to why their system doesn't work the same.
 
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Isaac said:
There's "order" in China??
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You should visit to be able to judge. Not relying on what Fox and CNN feed you.
I hate them more than anyone else and more than you can imagine, but it doesn't mean I believe everything is told about them.
Yes, there's order in China.
 
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KitaYama said:
You should visit to be able to judge. Not relying on what Fox and CNN feed you.
I hate them more than anyone else and more than you can imagine, but it doesn't mean I believe everything is told about them.
Yes, there's order in China.
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In a country like China, which is controlled by an autocratic government, I would say it's a strictly controlled society.
 
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