Chinese public toilets go hi-tech with Wi-fi and facial recognition - Sensationalist Headlines

Two more cities in China have installed a raft of technology in some of their public toilets – with one fitting facial recognition equipment – as part of a nationwide campaign to improve the quality of public conveniences, dubbed the “toilet revolution” in Chinese media. Facial recognition equipment had been installed at a public toilet at a sports centre in Changsha in Hunan province, the news website Rednet.cn reported. Each person scanning their face received 40cm of toilet paper from a dispenser, the report said. https://sg.news.yahoo.com/chinese-public-toilets-hi-tech-080752417.html Who tf only uses 40cm of toilet paper

lmao this isn't about toilet paper this is about the government wanting more information on its citizens and maybe watch them poop I guess?

Is stealing toilet paper so much of a problem that they need to scan your face? Surely there was something more low tech they could have done. Charging money for toilets would be messed up, but it sure wouldn't be as messed up as this is.

Also as someone with IBS 40cm of toilet paper is hilariously unfeasible. I'd have to carry my own fucking tp.

It doesn't make economic sense to install all this expensive hardware just to keep people from using so much toilet paper. Its for surveillance

PLEASE SCAN VERIFICATION CAN FACE TO CONTINUE

Are bidets common in china? That's the only thing I can think of. Especially since 40cm is generally wholly inadequate for a regular person.

No but squat toilets with no private cubicles are

I'll just wipe my ass on the camera then I guess.

You gotta be super frugal if you want any hope of communism working; one of main problems with it is the lack of infrastructure to support the required efficiency, technology alleviates this problem.

What an absolutely useless measure by the chinese government, chinese public toilets never stock tp, or soap.

https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/WderMxys1qzIl9IND6vL3Q--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjtzbT0xO3c9MTI4MDtoPTk2MA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en-SG/homerun/south_china_morning_post_621/4b179869a59e5713fe35c5a625e2a9bd Its design is a fucking panopticon you can't make this shit up

Could be worse, at least they aren't keeping a comprehensive file containing the buttholes of every individual. Yet...

Google "human face" on Google Images (or whatever Chinese equivalent is) and show it to camera .

who knew the chinese government had a scat kink

Not even all dystopian fiction writers would consider writing something like this.

If they put in something lowering your "social credit" for every square after the first 40cm, I would honestly not be surprised. And that fact scares me.

for the first time ever not wiping your ass properly improves your social standing

I feel like this one step away from stores just using facial recognition AI as a method of payment, would be pretty sick to have that Amazon store experience but inside a Chinese marketplace.

Me, an intellectual, saves the 40cm and use my hand. (which I wash afterward) When I am out on a date with a lady, and she has already used up her daily allowed toilet paper, I can whip out a fat stack to impress her.

It's already not uncommon to carry around a packet of tissues just in case the public toilets don't have any tp. But imagine they charged for every extra square. Pay 1000 yen a month for your toilet season pass with a bonus 100 cm tp!

Well, it's obviously for surveillance which is awful and all, but on the bright side, if I lived in China, every time I took a massive, earth-shattering shit, I could take solace in the fact that someone in a high position in China's government has to watch me throughout the whole ordeal. I'll never be alone again.

I always wanted to hear the locals' perspective on their gov's aggressive surveillance development. Anybody got a site/forum I can go to where the Chinese discuss politics and all? I can read a bit of Chinese.

so what happens if there's a blackout

They don't know about the three seashells?

Now they'll know if you have testicular cancer before you do.

"Sorry but your social ranking is below 3.5 and therefore you will only be administered 20cm of toilet paper"

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It baffles me that we're in the 21st century and we're still using pieces of paper to wipe our asses with.

"Sir, we can't find any images of him anywhere, what should we do?" "We have one option left, go to the photos of the buttholes." "Wait, stop! I recognize that butthole!'