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Author
Heather Zeiger
Date
January 14, 2020

Categorized
Surveillance

Tagged
___longform, censorship, China, Featured, Journalists, media}

Serious Media In China Have Gone Strangely Silent

_{With a compulsory new app, the government can potentially access journalists’ phones, both for surveillance and capturing data} _{Heather Zeiger

January 14, 2020

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Surveillance}

Liu Hu sums up the scene in a few words: “Outside of China, journalists are fired for writing false reports… Inside China, they are fired for telling the truth.”

The Unadvertised Cost of Doing Business with China

_{It’s a big market, with one Big Player, and some strange rules} _{Heather Zeiger

September 6, 2019

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Business and Finance, Ethics, Global Technology, Surveillance}

In China, censorship includes democracy, human rights, sex, George Orwell’s 1984, and Winnie-the-Pooh (because the stuffed literary bear has been compared by some Chinese bloggers to their President). Such censorship, say many, minimizes the value of the internet. Read More ›

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Author
Robert J. Marks
Date
December 26, 2018

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, Social Factors

Tagged
2018 AI Hype, censorship, Hate speech, Introduction to Evolutionary Informatics (book), Louis Farrakhan, Paul the Apostle, Twitter}

5: AI Can Fight Hate Speech!

_{AI can carry out its programmers’ biases and that’s all} _{Robert J. Marks

December 26, 2018

6

Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, Social Factors}

Putting these kinds of decisions in the hands of software programs is not likely to promote vigorous and healthy debate. Read More ›

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Author
Mind Matters
Date
November 2, 2018

Categorized
Ethics, Machine Learning, Social Factors

Tagged
censorship, China, Freedom, Freedom House, internet, James O'Malley, Surveillance}

A chilling snippet from mass surveillance in China

_{China is helping other countries restrict their citizens’ internet, while shunning the U.S.} _{Mind Matters

November 2, 2018

4

Ethics, Machine Learning, Social Factors}

Overall, governments worldwide are restricting the freedom of the internet, especially around election times, and the big social media companies are conspicuous by their silence. Read More ›

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Author
Mind Matters
Date
October 19, 2018

Categorized
Machine Learning, Social Factors

Tagged
censorship, China, Europe, Google, Surveillance, United States}

Would Google be happier if America were run more like China?

_{This might be a good time to ask} _{Mind Matters

October 19, 2018

6

Machine Learning, Social Factors}

A leaked internal discussion document, the “Cultural Context Report” (March 2018), admits a “shift toward censorship.” It characterizes free speech as a “utopian narrative,” pointing out that “As the tech companies have grown more dominant on the global stage, their intrinsically American values have come into conflict with some of the values and norms of other countries.” Read More ›

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Author
Mind Matters
Date
September 25, 2018

Categorized
Ethics

Tagged
censorship, China, Google, Silicon Valley, Surveillance}

Google Powering China’s Snoop Culture

_{They’ve suppressed the memo but can’t suppress the uproar around it} _{Mind Matters

September 25, 2018

4

Ethics}

It may at first seem deeply ironic that a Silicon Valley ostensibly committed to liberal values would help to unleash this storm. But a political analyst carefully traces the growth in its enthusiasm for “smart government,” using the tools of information technology for social engineering. Read More ›

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Author
Mind Matters
Date
September 14, 2018

Categorized
Ethics, Machine Learning, Social Factors

Tagged
censorship, China, Google, Jack Poulson, Sundar Pichai}

Senior Google scientist quits over Google’s censorship in China

_{He believes it “contravenes widely accepted principles of international law and human rights”} _{Mind Matters

September 14, 2018

4

Ethics, Machine Learning, Social Factors}

Some believe that any censorship system that a human being can develop can somehow be got around by another human being. China may provide a way of testing that.