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0x815 OP , 6 days ago to Technology in China's state subsidies in green technologies significantly higher than those in EU and OECD countries, distorting competition, researchers say

Yeah, sure clean all yards but start with your own.

Do you say that to Europe, to China, or both?

It's obvious you're addressing only Europe. Why?

This is what I meant with 'The West bad, China bad okay'. It's hypocritical. It's double-standards. It's ignorant and disgusting.

0x815 OP , 7 days ago (edited 6 days ago) to Technology in China's state subsidies in green technologies significantly higher than those in EU and OECD countries, distorting competition, researchers say

What about cleaning all yards? This 'the West bad, China bad okay' stance is dehumanising and ignorant. [Edit typo.]

0x815 OP , 7 days ago to Technology in China's state subsidies in green technologies significantly higher than those in EU and OECD countries, distorting competition, researchers say

I posted this elsewhere already, but it also fits here goven many of the posts in this thread: It is not just about data/privacy concerns (which are underestimated imo, as China pursues an own agenda with collecting your data through Chinese tech) and 'unfair' subsidies, but about gross human rights violations.

In short, some parts of the cheap Chinese cars are made in concentration camps where people are forced to work under catastrophic conditions.

0x815 OP , 7 days ago to Technology in China's state subsidies in green technologies significantly higher than those in EU and OECD countries, distorting competition, researchers say

I posted this elsewhere already, but it also fits here goven many of the posts in this thread: It is not just about data/privacy concerns (which are underestimated imo, as China pursues an own agenda with collecting your data through Chinese tech) and 'unfair' subsidies, but about gross human rights violations.

In short, some parts of the cheap Chinese cars are made in concentration camps where people are forced to work under catastrophic conditions.

0x815 OP , 15 days ago to Technology in Chinese firm sought to use UK university links to access AI for possible military use

Chinese orgs love signing MOUs

The CCP - or, better, the China Scholarship Council (CSC) under the rule of the CCP - forces Chinese students and researchers to sign 'loyalty pleadges' before giong abroad saying they "shall consciously safeguard the honor of the motherland, (and) obey the guidance and management of embassies (consulates) abroad."
The restrictive scholarship contract requires them to report back to the Chinese embassy on a regular basis, and anyone who violates these conditions is subject to disciplinary action.

In one investigation,

Mareike Ohlberg, a senior fellow working on China at the German Marshall Fund, sees the CSC contract as a demonstration of the Chinese Communist Party's "mania for control."

"People are actively encouraged to intervene if anything happens that might not be in the country's interest," Ohlberg said.

Harming China's interests is in fact considered the worst possible breach of the contract.

"It's even listed ahead of possible involvement in crimes, so effectively even ahead of murder," she noted. "China is making its priorities very clear here."

[...] Kai Gehring, the chair of German parliament's Committee for Education and Research, says the CSC contracts are "not compatible" with Germany's Basic Law, which guarantees academic freedom.

In Sweden, for example, universities have already cancelled the collaboration with the CSC over this practice.

There is ample evidence that China uses scientific collaboration with private companies as well as universities and research organizations for spying. You'll find many independent reports on that as well as of the CCP's intimidation practices of Chinese students who don't comply with the party line, e.g., in Australia and elsewhere. It's easy to find reliable sources on the (Western) web.

0x815 , 26 days ago to Technology in OpenAI Insider Estimates 70 Percent Chance That AI Will Destroy or Catastrophically Harm Humanity

Yes. We need human responsibility for everything what AI does. It's not the technology that harms but human beings and those who profit from it.

0x815 OP , 1 month ago to Technology in German carmaker Volkswagen says forced labour in one of its sub-supplier's plants in China was not identified as 'no full supply chain transparency exists'

You wouldn't trust the Chinese supplier (or any supplier). You'd go to the bauxite shipment company and let them register with the network, you'd send independent auditors to their premises, very much as we do it with ibdependent audits nowadays.

We do need to physically access the premises across the supply chain to verify that 'on-chain personas' reflect their 'real' identities. But no single authority can control the data, we can be quite sure that all transfers of ownership across the supply chain have been authorized by their controllers. Compared to centralized systems, the blockchain provides us a much higher level of transparency and certainty over the fidelity of the information.

0x815 OP , 1 month ago to Technology in German carmaker Volkswagen says forced labour in one of its sub-supplier's plants in China was not identified as 'no full supply chain transparency exists'

there's no way tovtrack where resources, material, items come from, who made them

Independent audits are done -they are very common in many industry for a variety of reasons- and they work if done properly.

We could even track the provenance of each material through a trustless system like a blockchain to guarantuee a high level of credibility and transparency, just to name a relatively new technology. This is done already.

0x815 OP , 1 month ago to Technology in German carmaker Volkswagen says forced labour in one of its sub-supplier's plants in China was not identified as 'no full supply chain transparency exists'

They have been already managing that for a long time. Independent audits are common - except in a few countries.

0x815 OP , 1 month ago to Technology in Car makers BMW, Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) and Volkswagen (VW) used parts made by supplier with links to Chinese forced labour, U.S. probe says

Forced labour in Chinese prisons isn't limited to Xinjiang, nor to the car industry. A lot products we use in Europe and North America and elsewhere around the globe are made by Chinese prisoners forced to work under catastrophic conditions.

There is strong evidence for this provided by many independent sources, among them a documentary by Arte (a French-German media outlet). If interested:

Forced Labour - SOS from a Chinese Prisoner -- (documentary, 95 min.)

A desperate cry for help written in Chinese was discovered in a pregnancy test sold in France and made in a Chinese factory. It revealed a hidden world of Chinese prison-companies where prisoners are forced to work for 15 hour days manufacturing products for export. This documentary tries to find out who wrote the letter.

(And, yes, prison labour exists also in the U.S., and it is as evil, but this doesn't make the autocratic Chinese government any better.)

0x815 OP , 1 month ago to Technology in The coordination network toolkit: a framework for detecting and analysing coordinated behaviour on social media

This is maybe a good idea. What would an emoji analysis tell us about a network? 😃

0x815 , 1 month ago to Interesting Global News in Chinese woman jailed for reporting on Covid in Wuhan to be freed after four years

It's a bad life in China as a journalist unless you parrot the Chinese communist party's propaganda. “China is the world’s largest jailer of journalists, with more than 100 currently detained," as the organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF) announced last week when they released 2024 World Press Freedom Index.

China ranked 172nd among 180 countries and regions. Compared with Chiba's 2023 ranking of 179th—second last place—China’s ranking has increased only because of the deterioration of situations in other countries, such as in the Taliban controlled Afghanistan, rather than any improvement in China.

RSF's report also said that “in addition to detaining more journalists than any other country in the world,” the Chinese communist regime “continues to exercise strict control over information channels, implementing censorship and surveillance policies to regulate online content and restrict the spread of information deemed to be sensitive or contrary to the party line.”

0x815 OP , 3 months ago to Interesting Global News in Israel-Palestine: UN appeals for humanitarian access to Gaza "where malnourished babies are slowly dying while the world watches"

Israeli Attacks Continue Unabated After Gaza Food Aid Massacre, 4 More Children Starve to Death

In Gaza, the official death toll has topped 30,200 as Israeli forces continue their deadly attacks, one day after soldiers fired on people waiting for aid in northern Gaza. Over 112 people were killed and 760 injured.

0x815 , 4 months ago to Technology in US announces visa ban on those linked to commercial spyware

ban those linked to commercial spyware from entering the United States

This is the end of the silicon valley, right?

0x815 OP , 5 months ago to Technology in Amazon- and Google-backed AI firm Anthropic says “general-purpose AI tools simply could not exist” if AI companies had to pay licences for the training material

Data Leak at Anthropic Due to Contractor Error

TL;DR - Anthropic had a data leak due to a contractor’s mistake, but says no sensitive info was exposed. It wasn’t a system breach, and there’s no sign of malicious intent.