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Author
News
Date
June 4, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Social Media, Technocracy

Tagged
Artificial Intelligence, capitalism, Communism, Elon Musk, Grimes, TikTok}

“AI is fastest path to Communism,” says Elon Musk’s partner

_{In a viral TikTok video, the singer/songwriter said AI will lead us to a world of leisure and no work} _{News

June 4, 2021

4

Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Social Media, Technocracy}

Social media was aflood yesterday with confusion and intrigue when Grimes – a Canadian singer/songwriter and 3-year partner to technological entrepreneur Elon Musk – said that “AI is actually the fastest path to communism” and encouraged communists to embrace the technology if they want to see their political dreams come true. Grimes (born Claire Elise Boucher) posted a short video to TikTok on Thursday, proposing that artificial intelligence could lead us to a utopia in which no one has to work and everyone lives in leisure: “I have a proposition for the communists. So, typically most of the communists I know are not big fans of AI. But if you think about it, AI is actually the fastest path to Read More ›

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Author
Caitlin Bassett
Date
June 3, 2021

Categorized
Censorship, Social Media, Technocracy

Tagged
banned from YouTUbe, censorship, Eric Metaxas, Florida, Free speech, Naomi Wolf, Scott Atlas, social media, Texas, YouTube}

Big Tech Scrubs Religious Radio Show From YouTube

_{This isn't the first time YouTube has infringed on free speech} _{Caitlin Bassett

June 3, 2021

4

Censorship, Social Media, Technocracy}

YouTube removed an entire radio show from its platform this week, hosted by popular Christian author and social commentator Eric Metaxas, citing violations of their community standards. Metaxas – author of biographies on the lives of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Martin Luther, and William Wilberforce, among many other books – announced the news to his social media pages on Tuesday. “It’s happened,” he wrote on his Facebook page. “Despite our going FAR out of our way to comply with their arbitrary ‘community standards’, YouTube decided to remove every single video we’ve ever done on the Eric Metaxas Show off their platform.” The Eric Metaxas Radio Show, humorously called “The Show About Everything”, has featured a host of big name guests, including former Read More ›

Woman wearing gloves with biohazard chemical protective suit and mask. She crossed her arms with unhappy face.

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Author
Heather Zeiger
Date
May 28, 2021

Categorized
Medicine and Health, Science, Technocracy

Tagged
Anthony Fauci, Chinese Communist Party (CCP), COVID-19 (dissent from official claims), COVID-19 lab leak hypothesis, Hubei, media, Nicholas Wade, SARS-CoV-2, Wet markets, Wuhan, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Zeynep Tufecki}

Covid-19 Lab Leak Theory Upgraded from Conspiracy to Plausible

_{Many scientists were discouraged from openly discussing the possibility of a lab leak, which hindered serious investigation} _{Heather Zeiger

May 28, 2021

12

Medicine and Health, Science, Technocracy}

Could the SARS-CoV-2 virus have originated from the Wuhan Institute of Virology? The public was informed, until quite recently, that the “scientific consensus” was that the virus that causes COVID-19 likely passed from animal to human and was neither designed nor accidentally released from a lab in Wuhan. However, this “consensus” has turned out to be anything but. Several scientists have voiced their concern over the lack of transparency on the part of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), imploring that the “lab leak” hypothesis should not be thrown out. They were largely ignored. Some scientists have even said that they experienced “very intense, very subtle pressures” to avoid advancing the lab leak theory. It’s advancing anyway, as more evidence accumulates. Read More ›

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Author
News
Date
May 24, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance, Religion, Surveillance, Technocracy

Tagged
Big Tech, Caitlin Bassett, China (crackdown on religions), Erik J. Larson, Heather Zeiger, John McCarthy, Live not by Lies (book), Myth of Artificial Intelligence (book), Norbert Wiener, Rod Dreher, Shoshan Zuboff, Surveillance Capitalism (book), United States (and mass surveillance)}

How Much of Your Income — and Life — Does Big Tech Control?

_{Erik J. Larson reviews the groundbreaking book Surveillance Capitalism, on how big corporations make money out of tracking your every move} _{News

May 24, 2021

7

Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance, Religion, Surveillance, Technocracy}

In a review of Shoshana Zuboff’s groundbreaking Surveillance Capitalism (2019), computer science historian Erik J. Larson recounts a 1950s conflict of ideas between two pioneers, Norbert Wiener (1894-1964) and John McCarthy (1927–2011). Wiener warned, in his largely forgotten book The Human Use of Human Beings (1950), about “new forms of control made possible by the development of advancing technologies.” McCarthy, by contrast, coined the term “artificial intelligence” (1956), implying his belief in “the official effort to program computers to exhibit human-like intelligence.” His “AI Rules” view came to be expressed not in a mere book but in — probably — hundreds of thousands of media articles warning about or celebrating the triumph of AI over humanity. If you are skeptical Read More ›

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Author
Heather Zeiger
Date
May 23, 2021

Categorized
Law, Religion, Technocracy

Tagged
Arab Spring (China's view), Atheism (mandated in China), China (indoctrinating clergy), China (official vs unofficial religious groups), Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Church of the Almighty God, COVID-19 (China) and religious crackdowns, Dissent (seen as threat), Featured, Freedom of religion, heterodox teaching (xie jiao), Normal (as ambiguous word), Religion (supprressed in China), Religious Freedom Report 2020, Sinicization, Sinicizing religion, Soviet Union (China's view), U.S. Department of State Religious Freedom Report 2020, Uyghurs (religious restrictions), Xi Jinping thought}

Why the Chinese Communist Party Feels It Must Destroy Religion

_{Persecution of religious groups is not based on what they actually teach but on whether their separate existence could pose a threat to the Communist Party} _{Heather Zeiger

May 23, 2021

9

Law, Religion, Technocracy}

The U.S. Department of State’s just-released 2020 Annual Report on the state of religious freedom around the world devotes 136 pages to China. That’s because the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) uses an extensive network of surveillance cameras coupled with facial recognition software — as well as cell phone tracking, internet and message monitoring, and biometric profiling — to persecute adherents of non-state-sanctioned organizations. Advances in collecting and storage of massive amounts of data to be sifted by algorithms have made this possible. In 2020, according to the report, the CCP used the COVID-19 pandemic to suppress religion through monitoring house church locations, shutting down online services, and creating bureaucratic barriers to opening buildings for worship. Through this “stability maintenance program,” Read More ›

New Yuan digital currency of china on red economy graph chart

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Author
Heather Zeiger
Date
May 10, 2021

Categorized
Business and Finance, Global Technology, Technocracy

Tagged
Alibaba Group Holdings, Alipay, Ant Group, Big Tech (China), ByteDance, China, Digital yuan, e-CNY, Fintech (China), Jack Ma, Jerry Lin, Retroactive law (China), Tencent Holdings, WeChat Pay}

China Sharply Reins in Big Tech Amid All-Digital Currency Rollout

_{Ant Group must turn over its vast customer database to the government in exchange for the easing of strict regulations} _{Heather Zeiger

May 10, 2021

6

Business and Finance, Global Technology, Technocracy}

Earlier, we looked at what China’s new digital yuan, also called Digital Currency Electronics Payment or e-CNY, will mean for Chinese citizens. The rollout may relate to billionaire e-commerce founder Jack Ma’s critiques of China’s regulators and subsequent (temporary) disappearance. Also to the subsequent denial of his Ant Group’s billion-dollar initial public offering on the Shanghai index. Since then, the Chinese government has cracked down on several Big Tech companies while promoting the digital yuan. How China is rapidly reining in its Big Tech industries Chinese media have been promoting the second annual Double Five (i.e., May 5) Shopping Festival in Shanghai. This month-long state-organized shopping festival is part of “National Consumption Promotion Month.” The first Consumption Month festival, held Read More ›

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Author
News
Date
April 25, 2021

Categorized
Arts & Culture, Mathematics, Philosophy, Religion, Science, Technocracy

Tagged
1984 (book), Atheism (in 1984), Carson Holloway, George Orwell, God (and objective reality), Objective reality (as concept), Party (in 1984), Proles (in 1984), Reality (as concept), totalitarianism, Winston (1984 character)}

How Orwell’s 1984 Can Be Seen As an Argument for God’s Existence

_{Atheism is not only fundamental to the power of the Party in 1984 but is also its central weakness} _{News

April 25, 2021

5

Arts & Culture, Mathematics, Philosophy, Religion, Science, Technocracy}

University of Nebraska political science prof Carson Holloway (pictured) asks, “Does discrediting the existence of God promote enlightened thinking or a lack of objective reality?” Unpacking the social structure in George Orwell’s classic totalitarian dystopia, 1984 (1949), he observes that not only does the Party have the power of life and death but the atheistic Party faithful fear death as utter annihilation: Atheism is the moral basis of the Party’s unlimited hold on its own members because it makes them terrified of death as absolute nonexistence. Like any government, the Party in 1984 has the power to kill disobedient subjects. Party members, however, view death not just as the end of bodily life, but as a complete erasure of their Read More ›

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Author
Heather Zeiger
Date
April 22, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Global Technology, Social Media, Technocracy

Tagged
China, China (repackaging history), Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Cultural Revolution (China), David Cowhig, George Orwell, Great Leap Forward, Heroes and Martyrs Protection Law (China), Historical nihilism (China), History (China), Soviet Union (collapse), Tienanmen Square (massacre), Wen Jiabao, Xi Jinping (and rewriting history), Zhao Ziyang}

China: Snitching on Those Who Recall Non-Approved History

_{The Communist Party of China wants its centennial to proceed this year without memory of the millions dead in the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, and Tiananmen Square} _{Heather Zeiger

April 22, 2021

7

Artificial Intelligence, Global Technology, Social Media, Technocracy}

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” – George Orwell, 1984 The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was formed on July 23, 1921, so is gearing up for the hundredth anniversary of its founding with the theme “Forever Following the Party.” In preparation, the Cyberspace Administration of China has launched a hotline for citizens to report online statements that contradict the Party’s official version of its history. A translation of the announcement from the Central Network Information Office Reporting Center is available on former American diplomat David Cowhig’s blog: One part of the announcement reads: In order to avoid misleading the public with false statements, maintain a clear cyberspace and create a good atmosphere Read More ›

Businessman hand holding tablet and Yuan currency sign on digital map backgroung.Chinese Yuan digital currency and circuit background.Technology digital Financial and china cryptocurrency concept.

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Author
Heather Zeiger
Date
April 20, 2021

Categorized
Business and Finance, Data Privacy, Global Technology, Surveillance, Technocracy

Tagged
Ant Group, Bitcoin (and China), China, Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Controllable anonymity concept (China), cryptocurrencies, David Pan, Digital currency, Digital Currency Electronics Payment (DCEP), Digital payments, Digital wallets, e-CNY, Fintechs, Jack Ma, People's Central Bank (China), Social Credit (China), Sweden (and digital currency)}

Why China Is Making a Bold Gamble With Digital Currency

_{“Controllable anonymity” means that all transactions between individuals are visible to the People’s Bank and trackable by the Chinese government} _{Heather Zeiger

April 20, 2021

8

Business and Finance, Data Privacy, Global Technology, Surveillance, Technocracy}

Last week, China announced the national rollout of the electronic yuan, a plan in the works since 2014. The e-CNY* or Digital Currency Electronics Payment (DCEP) was piloted last year in four major Chinese cities: The digital yuan resides in cyberspace, available on the owner’s mobile phone — or on a card for the less tech-savvy — and spending it doesn’t strictly require an online connection. It appears on a screen with a silhouette of Mao Zedong, looking just like the paper money. In tests in recent months, more than 100,000 people in China have downloaded a mobile-phone app from the central bank enabling them to spend small government handouts of digital cash with merchants, including Chinese outlets of Starbucks Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
April 9, 2021

Categorized
Censorship, Media, Social Media, Technocracy

Tagged
Adam Elkus, Ashley Babbitt, Brian Sicknick, Capital Riot, Capital Riot investigations, Capitol Hill Riot, extremism, Mark Steyn, misinformation, Parler}

What Your News Feed Will Look Like If Big Tech Runs It

_{Reading Elkus’s essay, one wants to ask, “Who is the collective ‘we’ who are supposed to be out of control?”} _{Denyse O'Leary

April 9, 2021

8

Censorship, Media, Social Media, Technocracy}

In an essay at The New Atlantis, Adam Elkus, a graduate student in computational social science at George Mason University, reflects on a curious change in public panics in recent years: Pundits’ obsession with AI doom has given way to “primal fear of primates posting,” with demands that top government or Big Tech crack down on social media: Once upon a time — just a few years ago, actually — it was not uncommon to see headlines about prominent scientists, tech executives, and engineers warning portentously that the revolt of the robots was nigh. The mechanism varied, but the result was always the same: Uncontrollable machine self-improvement would one day overcome humanity. A dismal fate awaited us. We would be Read More ›

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Author
Caitlin Bassett
Date
March 31, 2021

Categorized
Censorship, Social Media, Technocracy

Tagged
Alphabet Inc, Big Tech, Facebook, Google, Heritage Foundation, Jack Dorsey, Ken Buck, Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, The Heritage Foundation, Twitter}

Influential Think Tank Declines Big Tech Donations

_{The Heritage Foundation declined six-figure donations from Big Tech companies Facebook and Google in 2020, citing repeated censorship of conservative views} _{Caitlin Bassett

March 31, 2021

3

Censorship, Social Media, Technocracy}

News website Axios obtained letters signed by Heritage Foundation‘s departing President Kay Coles James (pictured), addressed to the CEOs of both Facebook and Google in October 2020, explaining why Heritage felt compelled to decline the six-figure contributions from the companies. “We cannot in good conscience take money from a company that repeatedly, and blatantly, suppresses conservative speech on your platforms,” reads the letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai. A similar statement is made in the letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Heritage declined $225,000 from Google, and returned $150,000 that came from Facebook. The Heritage Foundation made several accusations against the companies in its letters, including: that Facebook suppressed their reach by blocking referral traffic; that Facebook targeted Heritage with third-party fact-checkers; and that Google Read More ›

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Author
News
Date
March 26, 2021

Categorized
Data Privacy, Ethics, Surveillance, Technocracy

Tagged
Big Tech, Cell phones, Elizabeth Kolbert, Karl D. Stephan, Liquid modernity, Zygmunt Bauman}

Getting Used to Liquid Modernity

_{The only constant of liquid modernity is change, chiefly of the self, but also of the self's surroundings} _{News

March 26, 2021

7

Data Privacy, Ethics, Surveillance, Technocracy}

(Reprinted with permission from the Engineering Ethics Blog of Karl Stephan (pictured) of the Ingram School of Engineering at Texas State University) I do not own a conventional smart phone. Instead, I intentionally use a style of flip phone whose rugged case and physical numeric keypad buttons won’t be injured by a drop of three or four feet to a concrete surface. It can receive some texts on its small screen, and I can even send texts after a fashion with the twelve numeric keys, tapping them rapidly one to four times to select the correct letter or punctuation mark. It won’t do capitals, but you can read texts from me without capitals and still get the message. It took me a while to Read More ›

Robotic man cyborg face representing artificial intelligence 3D rendering

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Author
Eric Holloway
Date
March 2, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Medicine and Health, Technocracy

Tagged
Evolution, Featured, free will, Mark Alan Walker, Person-engineered technologies, Ray Kurzweil, Second Law of Thermodynamics, Singularity}

Are We Facing the Next, Very Rapid Stage of Evolution, via AI?

_{Prof. Mark Alan Walker: “Person-engineering technologies will make it possible to accomplish in a matter of years what evolution would take thousands of millennia to achieve.”} _{Eric Holloway

March 2, 2021

6

Artificial Intelligence, Medicine and Health, Technocracy}

These are certainly heady times in the biotech world. With the new mRNA vaccine being created in just a few days in January 2020, someone can mass produce DNA in their garage for the price of a hamburger, and Alpha Fold 2 can predict proteins from DNA with accuracy, rivalling wet lab results, it seems we are on the cusp of something extraordinary. Most viral infections will cease if all we need to do to roll out a new vaccine is sequence the virus genome and mass produce the portion that binds to human cells. On the darker side, it will also likely mean a greater threat of biowarfare. Creating a new virus may just be a matter of downloading Read More ›

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Author
News
Date
February 26, 2021

Categorized
Social Media, Technocracy

Tagged
Amazon, Amazon (delisting books), Big Tech, Books (delisting), Deplatforming, discrimination, Featured, John West, Kara McKinney, Parler, political discrimination, Seattle}

Could a Seattle Law Hobble Amazon’s Unaccountable Censorship?

_{John West discusses Amazon’s vulnerability in Seattle with Kara McKinney at Tipping Point} _{News

February 26, 2021

4

Social Media, Technocracy}

Recently, John West, Managing Director of the Discovery Institute’s Center for Science & Culture, offered some thoughts at Tipping Point about Seattle legislation that could stymie Big Tech’s growing tendency toward viewpoint discrimination: Everyone is wondering what we can do about Big Tech censorship and it turns out there is a law on the books in progressive Seattle just waiting to be used. John West, “Big Tech Discrimination with John West” at Tipping Point (February 25, 2021) He’s referring to this law which forbids discrimination on the basis of, among other things, political ideology, seen as: any idea or belief, or coordinated body of ideas or beliefs, relating to the purpose, conduct, organization, function or basis of government and related Read More ›

Smart digital city with globalization abstract graphic showing connection network . Concept of future 5G smart wireless digital city and social media networking systems .

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Author
News
Date
February 16, 2021

Categorized
Business and Finance, Law, Social Media, Technocracy

Tagged
Canada and Big Tech, Donald Trump, Florida and Big Tech, Hungary and Big Tech, Ken Paxton, Mexico and Big Tech, Parler, Poland and Big Tech, Ron DeSantis, Texas and Big Tech, Twitter in Canada}

Florida Governor, Nation States, Take On Big Tech

_{Rattled by censorship and deplatforming, many jurisdictions are looking at ways to make Silicon Valley respect citizens’ rights. Florida’s Governor DeSantis may be the most colorful} _{News

February 16, 2021

6

Business and Finance, Law, Social Media, Technocracy}

At a press conference on Monday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis offered a look at new legislation that forms part of his initiative to reduce the power of Big Social Media to harvest and sell data on users: The act, should it pass muster in the state House and Senate, would force tech platforms to disclose what data they have on Floridians to those users and delete that information if requested. The law would also ask companies not to sell the data and would create legal avenues to sue for noncompliance. Whether one state will be able to regulate such massive companies that operate on a global scale remains to be seen — likely in a court of law. Emily Jacobs, Read More ›

Classic club sandwich with ham and bacon on a wooden board. Next cup is a mixture of pickled miniature onions, gherkins, tomatoes. Gray background. Close-up.

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Author
Heather Zeiger
Date
February 15, 2021

Categorized
Surveillance, Technocracy

Tagged
Agora, China, Clubhouse (app), Elon Musk, Featured, Free expression, iFlytek, Kai Strittmatter, Li Wenliang, Mark Zuckerberg, Melissa Chan, Murong Xuecun, Paul Davidson, Rohan Seth, Uyghurs, Voice recognition software, We Have Been Harmonized (book)}

For Five Days There Was Free Expression in China

_{Then censors blocked the Clubhouse app} _{Heather Zeiger

February 15, 2021

7

Surveillance, Technocracy}

In March 2020, Silicon Valley entrepreneur Paul Davidson and former Google engineer Rohan Seth launched their newest app, Clubhouse. The app is an invite-only audio chat app that lets users talk in virtual rooms. These conversations can be one-on-one or they could have an audience of up to 5,000 users (the current room limit in the beta version of the app). The app is only available on the iPhone and, once invited, users must use their actual phone number and Apple ID to join. Each user is only allowed to invite up to five people. The app’s exclusive nature gave it the tantalizing aura of the “next-big-thing” among the tech types. On January 31, Space-X’s Elon Musk made an appearance Read More ›

Courthouse with judge's gavel and sign NO. concept of censorship and the production of restrictions and laws on restriction. Anti-popular laws, usurpation of power, conservative views. Lack of justice

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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 11, 2021

Categorized
Media, Social Media, Technocracy

Tagged
America Alone (book), Canada, Disinformation, Free speech wars, Hate speech laws, Joan Donovan, Kevin Roose, Maclean's Magazine, Mark Steyn, Reality czar, Section 13 (Canada)}

“Disinformation”: Do We Really Need a “Reality Czar”?

_{Canada dodged a bullet in 2014. The United States will not be so lucky if it adopts Big Tech's new proposals against “disinformation” online} _{Denyse O'Leary

February 11, 2021

6

Media, Social Media, Technocracy}

Recently, a New York Times technology columnist, back from a consult with Big Tech in Silicon Valley, urged U.S. President to appoint a “reality czar” to go after people who provide “disinformation” online. He concedes, “It sounds a little dystopian, I’ll grant.” Well yes, rather. And the czar would probably soon find himself in conflict with the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. But Kevin Roose (pictured), who says he has spent several years tackling “our national reality crisis”, begs us to hear the czar’s supporters out: This task force could also meet regularly with tech platforms, and push for structural changes that could help those companies tackle their own extremism and misinformation problems. (For example, it could formulate “safe Read More ›

Shot of Corridor in Working Data Center Full of Rack Servers and Supercomputers with Pink Neon Visualization Projection of Data Transmission Through High Speed Internet.

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Author
News
Date
February 8, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Programming, Technocracy

Tagged
ai-limits, Superintelligent AI}

Would Super AI Cure Cancer — or Destroy the Earth?

_{Max Planck Institute computer scientists say that we not only don’t but can’t know} _{News

February 8, 2021

4

Artificial Intelligence, Programming, Technocracy}

An international team of computer scientists associated with the Max Planck Institute concluded that, given the nature of computers, there is no way of determining what superintelligent AI would do: An international team of computer scientists used theoretical calculations to show that it would be fundamentally impossible to control a super-intelligent AI “A super-intelligent machine that controls the world sounds like science fiction. But there are already machines that perform certain important tasks independently without programmers fully understanding how they learned it. The question therefore arises whether this could at some point become uncontrollable and dangerous for humanity”, says study co-author Manuel Cebrian, Leader of the Digital Mobilization Group at the Center for Humans and Machines, Max Planck Institute for Read More ›

Global virus and disease spread, coronavirus

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Author
Heather Zeiger
Date
January 26, 2021

Categorized
Medicine and Health, Science, Technocracy

Tagged
China, COVID-19, Featured, Freedom of expression, Zhang Youngzhen}

How China Has Tried To Suppress Coronavirus Science

_{So far as investigative journalists have been able to determine, the suppression came directly from the top} _{Heather Zeiger

January 26, 2021

10

Medicine and Health, Science, Technocracy}

An investigation by the Associated Press reveals what everyone has suspected since the beginning of the SARS-CoV-2 (coronavirus) pandemic: The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been keeping a tight rein on the publication or distribution of any scientific research on the coronavirus conducted within the country. AP recently found out just how extensive the muzzling of scientific findings has been. Its report also confirms that the orders came from the top: The AP investigation was based on dozens of interviews with Chinese and foreign scientists and officials, along with public notices, leaked emails, internal data and the documents from China’s cabinet and the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention. It reveals a pattern of government secrecy and top-down control Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor
Date
January 25, 2021

Categorized
Ethics, Global Technology, Technocracy

Tagged
Antonio Gramsci, Charles Darwin, Critical theory, Leninism, Marxism, Saul Alinsky}

Why “Critical Theory” Might Shape Your Life Going Forward

_{Critical Theory has begun to rule the public square and we need to understand it} _{Michael Egnor

January 25, 2021

7

Ethics, Global Technology, Technocracy}

2020 was the year that Critical Theory came to dominate culture in America. It ruled academia for a half century but only in the past year has it begun to rule the American public square as well. Perhaps you’re not interested in Critical Theory but Critical Theory is interested in you. It behooves us to understand it better, because it will be a central theme in American culture for the foreseeable future. For readers who are not familiar with it, I provide here a synopsis. There is a connection to Darwinism at the heart of Critical Theory, as we will see. Critical theory is, at its root, cultural Marxism. It emerged from the failure of Leninism to capture the hearts Read More ›