Tag: iFlytek

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

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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

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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 ›