Last year while waiting at a bus stop in Hangzhou in front of an intra-immigration office, I saw a Chinese police officer (shove, kick, or throw (it was a year ago)) a protester from behind.  She was part of a crowd of other protesters. It looked like the protester bumped into him seconds before, while being herded away from the office by the police.<p>The woman was already in front of him and walking away, but the officer&#x27;s facial expression made it clear he was very agitated. It seemed like he just wanted to &#x27;get back&#x27; at her for bumping into him beforehand. His impact made her lose her balance and she nearly fell to the ground.<p>Maybe having someone physically and emotionally detached from a physical setting could have positive benefits in some situations.  I am still not sure whether the remote controlled cop is a good thing though.<p>As an aside, the broken internet in China is crippling entire generations of people into ignorant irrelevance. I don&#x27;t think enough people appreciate the magnanimous ramifications of making an entire country deliberately ignorant.<p>It&#x27;s not just Google and Facebook that are blocked, it&#x27;s Chinese Wikipedia, Wordpress, and the free press in general. You need a license to publish anything. Corruption and blatant scandals can&#x27;t get published without approval from the Party. All the state-owned enterprises, including the public universities, are run by the Party. The Party will not often allow anything to be published that exposes anything related to itself or its co-conspirators.<p>All foreign-hosted websites have soft blocks, where they will randomly not load, with no explanation given, subconsciously driving people to only use domestic websites that always work.<p>People have no way of protesting any of this without getting destroyed by the state, professionally or literally. Unless of course, they apply and successfully get permission from the state to do so.