I also want to challenge the idea that “monitoring everything is safest.” As we mentioned, during the early 2020 pandemic, there were doctors like Li Wenliang who discovered in late 2019 that he was infected with something that didn’t feel like an ordinary cold but potentially a lethal disease. He tried to warn his colleagues. But because of speech monitoring, they made Li Wenliang write a self-criticism letter and prevented him from continuing to talk about the virus and that it might not be an ordinary cold.

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