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it’s not implausible that this operation could have been setup without Chinese government involvement
Sure, the Chinese government knows nothing. It’s not that the CCP is surveilling every inch in the country, including in Xinjiang and Tibet. This is just a small firm which does that without any knowledge by the government (/s, just to be safe).
I don’t omit the context. They say it was intended as a joke after it backfired on social media, and the company’s apology - as the article states - is somewhat quiet (on the other hand, the Chinese government - usually not averse to censor content it deems unpleasant - apparently had no problem with it).
A detail that is buried somewhere in this article is that Fico’s government apparently takes de facto control of Slovak parliament’s intelligence oversight committee, which is traditionally controlled by the opposition. So there is no independent oversight at all.
It’s time for the EU and its member states to ban any surveillance software and protect EE2E (including abandoning such things like ‘chat control’) if they want protect Europe from the further rise of authoritarian regimes.
Überall, wo KI bislang in der Sozialpolitik bzw. in ihrer Verwaltung eingesetzt wurde, endete das meines Wissens in einer Katasrophe.
I didn’t edit out anything. Everyone can read the the article to understand the issue and its context.
And there appear to be many who do not understand this ‘joke’:
Internet users responding to the apology, numbering more than 60,000 by noon Thursday, remained mostly unmoved. Some called on the company to make a public apology directly to the employees, while others suggested a video apology would be more appropriate. For most, it was reminder of the pitfalls of jumping on the video humor bandwagon.
Ja, auf Deutsch habe ich dazu nichts gefunden, aber auf English zumindest einen Artikel.
Chinese economist disappears: Is Zhu Hengpeng victim of Xi Jinping’s war on dissent? – (Archiv-Link)
Unter anderem heisst es da (nach dem Zwischentitel “Critique of China’s economic landscape”):
Zhu’s economic analysis was a direct critique of China’s current policies, particularly in taxation and social security. He highlighted how the country’s heavy tax burden and flawed social security structure inhibit the growth of residents’ consumption levels. Drawing on international examples, he argued that sustainable economic growth requires a robust social security system alongside significant public spending to reduce income inequality, alleviate public anxieties and expand the middle-income demographic—steps essential for boosting consumer demand.
Es geht dann noch ein bisschen weiter. Viel Details kann man zwar auch nicht erfahren, aber ein bisschen was steht drin.
Again, flip over to any other industrialized nation and you’re going to find the same media trends. You get to fixate on “China Media Bad” because you’re not getting spammed with American propaganda about Hindu nationalists or Japanese fascists. But then we are as guilty of drinking the propaganda kool-aid as any other country. And a big part of that kool-aid is the exceptionalism mentality that insists we’re clear-eyed while everyone else is being brainwashed.
What a rubbish. I live in a (Western) country where racism and nationalism and all the sh’t that it entails is much older than modern-day China, but the media isn’t controlled here. Journalists and bloggers and private persons on social media can freely write and criticize, including the government.
I wondering when you get tired here about this whataboutism. In the context of the death of a 10-year old this is even disgusting.