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Chinese tech giants ‘cancel’ Israel – WSJ

November 02, 2023 -

(Article republished from RT.com)

According to the report, Baidu’s Chinese language maps still show the borders of both Israel and the Palestinian territories, as well as key cities in the region. However, they no longer identify Israel by name.

Alibaba’s Amap also no longer displays the name of Israel. According to the report, the platform is usually known for its attention to details, with even small countries like Luxembourg clearly labeled.

The companies ...

Document 79: China’s strategy to exclude U.S. tech

a month ago -

(Article republished from YourNews.com)

In a strategic move titled “Document 79”, China is reportedly enacting a plan to remove American technology from its tech sector, The Wall Street Journal revealed. This directive mandates Chinese state-owned enterprises to eliminate foreign software by 2027, aiming to promote self-sufficiency and address security concerns. The secretive nature of Document 79 is highlighted by its dissemination method, with officials and executives required ...

Tech investors organize to silence pro-Palestinian voices

December 14, 2023 -

(Article republished from New.TheCradle.co)

The investors and executives have joined with pro-Israeli activists and Israeli government officials to terminate pro-Palestinian employees at multi-national corporations from their jobs, smear Palestinian journalists, cancel speaking events at US universities by Palestinian writers and politicians, remove social media posts critical of Israel, “ridicule” pro-Palestinian social media influencers and lawmakers, and send military ...

Liberal tech magazine says “Ring” doorbell cameras are “racist”

September 03, 2023 -

The particular brand claims to have complete built-in lights, security sirens and color night vision. Customers can be connected and feel comfortable with the added protection it offers day and night, as its website advertised. In 2020, Ring camera sales tripled while sales were up 30 percent this year, simply proving how Americans are starting to trust and rely on security cameras.

Apparently, liberals and woke mob are actually unhappy with the protection and "peace ...

CensorTrack database records OVER 6,000 CASES of Big Tech CENSORSHIP

November 08, 2023 -

According to a statement, the aggressive censorship efforts target any type of information that harms the Democratic Party, the Biden administration or otherwise runs counter to the Left's narrative and gaslighting the American people. Since its launch in September 2020, researchers from CensorTrack have worked tirelessly to track down and document the censorship of some of the most high-profile cases of de-platforming, as well as the takedowns of those who have written to ...

Big Tech knowingly profited off pedophiles who exploit children on Instagram

a month ago -

This is according to reports from the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, who claim that Meta allowed subscription tools to be used for child sexual exploitation and did nothing to stop it.

Although Instagram does not permit users younger than 13 to sign up, accounts may focus on children if they are managed by an adult. The news outlets claim that Meta’s safety staff warned superiors last year that hundreds of “parent-managed minor accounts” were being used to sell ...

WATCH: Democrat suggests Biden admin Big Tech-censorship collusion “doesn’t exist”

February 12, 2024 -

(Article by Tom Parker republished from ReclaimTheNet.org)

The “weaponization” at the center of the hearing included the federal government’s funding of AI-powered censorship and propaganda tools that can be “used by governments and Big Tech to monitor and censor speech at scale.” However, the hearing also cited many other examples of censorship, including former Biden admin officials demanding content takedowns, DHS-linked teams censoring 2020 election-related online ...

Tech entrepreneur unpacks Twitter Files, what ‘weaponized’ agencies did to Americans

May 18, 2023 -

(Article by Gabriela Pariseau republished from NewsBusters.org)

Sacks applauded The Twitter Files for unveiling how federal agencies weaponized their authority against Americans in an interview on Benny Johnson’s The Benny Show Sunday. He credited Twitter owner Elon Musk for releasing the files. “I think we would have very little knowledge of what was actually happening inside these social media companies if Elon hadn’t opened up The Twitter Files,” Sacks said. “The only ...

Tech startup working on building a robot that uses AI-powered “brain”

18 days ago -

Over the past 15 years or so, AI systems that work entirely in software have grown far more sophisticated than their moving counterparts. Non-AI-powered robots, meanwhile, can easily manufacture anything in factories and clean up after people at home but only carry out a relatively small range of tasks compared to the increasingly general nature of AI-powered chatbots.

In a move to bridge the gap between artificial intelligence and the physical world, Physical Intelligence ...

Google’s Gemini AI caught creating fake book reviews to defend Big Tech

a month ago -

When author Peter Hasson asked the AI program questions about a book he wrote in 2020, The Manipulators: Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Big Tech’s War on Conservatives, he found that the chatbot actually concocted a series of fake reviews attributed to real people in an effort to discredit it.

The book, which was about the political biases of Google and other tech firms, was thoroughly researched, and Hasson drew from leaked documents and inside sources to inform his writing....

China’s ban on rare earth minerals export rattles the world tech industry

January 10, 2024 -

The communist nation, which controls 90 percent of the refined rare earth metal market, completely banned the rare earth extraction and separation technology. According to freelance writer and communications consultant Kurt Cobb, this recent move is part of a broader trade war between the United States and China over the exchange of technology.

President Xi Jinping's commerce ministry sought public opinion last December on the potential move to add the technology to ...

Rep. Issa: Big Tech still playing the CENSORSHIP game on social media

December 05, 2023 -

The congressman made this remark during a Nov. 30 appearance on "The Evening Edit" on Fox Business. "Social media, and for that matter Big Media, … is still playing the censorship game as we speak," he told program host David Asman. Issa's answer came as a response to the host's question whether it is "wonderful" for the free market to come to rescue Americans from government censorship.

"Governments are getting involved even more so because beyond the censorship you ...

Tech firms developing and deploying AI that can deceptively MIMIC HUMAN BEHAVIOR

October 05, 2023 -

According to a report by the nonprofit consumer organization Public Citizen, such tasks include aggressively marketing products and services; dispensing dubious medical and mental health advice; and potentially ensnaring users in toxic relationships with machines.

"The tech sector is recklessly rolling out AI systems masquerading as people that can hijack our attention, exploit our trust and manipulate our emotions," said Rick Claypool, a researcher for Public Citizen ...

Tech moguls, lawmakers hold Senate hearing on AI amid its rapid rise

September 22, 2023 -

The Sept. 13 AI Insight Forum in Washington, D.C. was convened under the leadership of a bipartisan group of senators. The group included Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) and Sen. Todd Young (R-IN). Prior to the event, Schumer disclosed that the forum is just "the first of a series of forums that will give our committees the knowledge base and thought insights to draft the right kind of policies."

Big ...

TSA’s use of FACIAL RECOGNITION tech in US airports rouses privacy concerns

May 30, 2023 -

"What we are trying to do with this is aid the officers to actually determine that you are who you say you are," Jason Lim, TSA identity management capabilities manager, told reporters during a demonstration of the technology at Baltimore-Washington International (BWI) Thurgood Marshall Airport.

A presentation of the technology posted by the Associated Press shows a female passenger walking up to a security checkpoint. She inserts an identification card into a slot and looks ...

Big Tech and Big Government to subsidize salaries of MSM journalists in Canada

December 12, 2023 -

LifeSiteNews expounded on the $100 million agreement involving search engine giant Google and the government of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The outlet also cited the augmented subsidies from Ottawa as outlined in the Fall Economic Statement. These two, LifeSiteNews said, are poised to significantly subsidize the salaries of MSM journalists.

Rudyard Griffiths, journalist and executive director of Canadian news site The Hub, said journalists earning up to ...

House GOP slams FBI chief for colluding with Big Tech to censor Americans

July 17, 2023 -

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) opened the hearing, citing a federal court decision in Louisiana a few days earlier. The said ruling found the government suppressed First Amendment rights of people posting on social media platforms on the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic vaccines and mask requirements, under a policy the ruling compared to an "Orwellian Ministry of Truth."

Co-owner of San Diego, California-based news outlet Trending Politics Collin ...

BRAVE ACT: Brave Search cuts ties with Big Tech to ensure user privacy

May 08, 2023 -

Privacy-focused search engine Brave Search has completely removed all its third-party indexes like Bing, and will now rely solely on its proprietary index to fully achieve independence and provide a real alternative to Big Tech search engines.

When Brave Search was initially launched in 2021, it acknowledged its reliance on other indexes for approximately 13 percent of search queries. However, the company has since made substantial progress in reducing this dependency, ...

House Judiciary Committee summons Big Tech CEOs to produce censorship collusion correspondence with feds

7 days ago -

Federal agencies under Biden coerced social media companies to censor political opposition

The FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF) and the San Francisco Field Office of the FBI works directly with Amazon, Alphabet, Apple, Meta and Microsoft “to facilitate sharing information about foreign malign influence with social media companies.”

While this objective sounds well-intentioned, it is not the only surveillance operation taking place between federal agencies and the top ...

Rep. Mike Johnson: Biden administration, Big Tech, mainstream media colluded to censor content online

July 21, 2023 -

Johnson, who has been a vocal critic against censorship in the past, noted in his speech that a federal court was able to affirm what he and other government censorship critics have been reporting for a long time about how "the White House, the Department of Justice, the FBI [Federal Bureau of Investigation], among other agencies, threatened and coerced the social media platforms to censor and suppress disfavored viewpoints and conservatives' social media posts online." (Related: ...