It’s not fear I don’t think. It’s more like the Chinese Gov is opaque to us and it’s people.

How noble of you to speak on their behalf.

Just to add that Hadrian’s Firewall used to exist/does exist, I think. It was located in BT’s main POP in Newcastle.

Yep. I won’t be playing because of this.

I think the issue there is the k-ID software asks you to do things like open your mouth, then close your mouth - so you’d need to find stock photos of the same person doing stuff like that. Which, now that I think about it, I imagine there will be an influx of selfies of people with closed and open mouths available on google images very soon.

There was a bit of controversy about them a couple of years back that put me off.

• They used to disable Wayland and force X11 - that was a pain.
• They didn’t fully open source all components I think.
• There was some concerns about where it was being developed, I think it’s entirely Chinese devs.