A public toilet in Beijing requires using a face recognition system to get toilet paper.

Some governments will spend lots of money to surveil people in the name of stinginess.

If there's anyone in Beijing that can't afford toilet paper, the city government should give out toilet paper for them. Why not put a box of rolls next to the toilet?

I have a hunch that that toilet does something else even worse: that it is a pay toilet. The idea of charging people to use a toilet offends me so much that I absolutely refuse to use a pay toilet. Please join this campaign, and spread the word.