Wednesday, September 26, 2018

If Google Helps China Spy On Its Own Citizens, Why Wouldn't They Help China Spy On Ours?

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Reason: Google and Privatized Authoritarianism
The tech giant appears willing to do almost anything to win access to the vast Chinese market.
"Tech giants get a lot of well-deserved flack for playing at partisan politics, picking sides in policy disputes, and suppressing speech and ideas that don't fit well with their dominant political ideology—or promoting those that do. Even some of the companies' employees' find the internal culture stifling, such as the Facebook workers who recently derided the social media behemoth for "a political monoculture that's intolerant of different views." But for a glimpse of real danger, consider what happens when Google, the dominant search-engine company, teams up with a regime it apparently finds agreeable, and lends its considerable clout to reinforcing authoritarian rulers' control over their suffering subjects.
Google left China in 2010 after realizing that there was no end to the demands and intrusions the government would make, no matter how the tech firm tried to comply. But now the company appears willing to do almost anything asked to win access to the vast market. And what's being asked of the company is that it help the government control its people.".......

Washington TimesTrump accuses China of 2018 election meddling: They 'don't want me to win': China has been attempting to interfere in our upcoming 2018 election, coming up in November against my administration,” Mr. Trump said. “They do not want me or us to win because I am the first president ever to challenge China on trade, and we are winning on trade — we are winning at every level. We don’t want to them to meddle or interfere in our upcoming election,” he said, breaking from protocol at the traditionally highly scripted Security Council.".......
Question: What if China insisted the cost of doing business in China was to help them rig our election yet again? Something Google has shown they are already pre-disposed to do?
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“If the righteous many do not confront the wicked few, then evil will triumph.”

Don't Be Evil--Remember?

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