There are those people who criticize blacks and others for running from the police. “You only make it worse on yourself when you run.” “If you’d just submit, you wouldn’t get beaten or shot.”
And then there are those people who are privacy advocates, if not fanatics. They don’t want a surveillance state. They’re maybe even paranoid about it — afraid that big government is watching them everywhere, and keeping track of everything about them. They likely criticize China for how it operates, in part because of this.
I bet these 2 groups of people often overlap. If I surmise there’s a good chunk of overlap (if not outright containment of the “don’t run” people within the “big government is watching you” people), isn’t that ironic? Why are they afraid of a surveillance state? What do they have to hide? Why are they running? What could possibly go wrong with a surveillance state if they’re good people with nothing to hide? Law and order could only be enhanced, just like they ultimately desire and vote for in every other domain of government it seems, usually to the extreme detriment of freedoms in those other domains.
What are you afraid of? What are you hiding? Don’t run. Submit.