Sunday, March 17, 2019
Trump blisters Google
as un-American
as un-American
'We're the good guys,' not the Reds,
is top general's message to Pichai
Sundar Pichai,
Google's top man, is reportedly eager to work with Chinese communism in order to tap the Asian nation's rich, though government-controlled, cyber market.President Trump's charge
that Google is pro-Communist but not pro-American comes amid wrangles over Google censorship of conservatives as it is accused of secretly developing an app to aid communism.The President and two top Pentagon officials are blistering Google as making it easy for the Communist military to gain access to innovative American technology.
Though it is clear that there is money to be made in selling technology to help the Reds oppress the Chinese people, it is curious that Google has spurned making money from the U.S. federal government on grounds that its corporate values might be sullied.
A top Pentagon general, Joe Dunford, on Thursday told senators, “The work that Google is doing in China is indirectly benefiting the Chinese military. The way I describe it to industry partners is, ‘Look, we’re the good guys and the values that we represent and the system we represent is the one that will allow and has allowed you to thrive'."
On March 4, the Intercept's Ryan Gallagher reported that Google employees had uncovered continuing work on Dragonfly, a search engine that would muzzle the internet on behalf of communism. The project had been dropped after the Intercept published whistleblower disclosures.
In 2006, Google launched a censored search engine in China, but stopped operating the service in the country in 2010, taking a clear anti-censorship position. At the time, Google co-founder Sergey Brin declared that he wanted to show that the company was “opposing censorship and speaking out for the freedom of political dissent.”
Sundar Pichai, Google’s CEO since 2015, has taken a different position. He has a strong desire to launch search again in China — viewing the censorship as a worthwhile trade-off to gain access to the country’s more than 800 million internet users — and he may now be waiting for the controversy around Dragonfly to die down before quietly resurrecting the plan, Gallagher observed.
Google has also been under a cloud over decisions by its subsidiary YouTube to muzzle videos based on their political content. Google has also been accused of systematically burying or eliminating searches for conservatives. Usually Google blows off critics with the word "algorithm," implying that the blackouts are directed by its vaunted artificial intelligence system. But sometimes it takes credit for censorship of those that its monitors believe are excessively nationalist (=pro-American).
Not only conservatives like Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz are taking aim at the near-monopoly, but liberals, including the Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren, have Google in the crosshairs, urging that antitrust law be used to break up the firm, along with other tech behemoths.
The president took a swipe at the tech giant in a tweet Saturday, accusing Google of “helping China and their military, but not the U.S. Terrible! The good news is that they helped Crooked Hillary Clinton, and not Trump....and how did that turn out?”
On Thursday Acting Defense Secretary Patrick M. Shanahan and Marine Corps Gen. Joe Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told federal lawmakers that Google's work with the Chinese was bolstering "indirectly" the communist military.
“We watch with great concern when industry partners work in China knowing that there is that indirect benefit,” Marine Corps Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told members of the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing.
“The work that Google is doing in China is indirectly benefiting the Chinese military,” Dunford said. “The way I describe it to industry partners is, ‘look we’re the good guys and the values that we represent and the system we represent is the one that will allow and has allowed you to thrive,’” he said.
Dunford’s comments come in the wake of the tech giant's decision to spurn some of the Pentagon’s lucrative contracts while considering projects in Communist China.
In October, Google said it would no longer compete for the Pentagon’s Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, or JEDI, cloud computing contract, an award that could be worth $10 billion. Google said that the contract may conflict with its corporate values. In addition, the company also said it would not renew a Pentagon contract that analyzed aerial drone imagery.
Though Google chief Pichai has said the company will continue to invest in communist China, Shanahan echoed concerns that Chinese, under the direction of Communist bosses, have gamed the system to reap the rewards of American innovation.
Five trillion dollars of China’s economy is invested in state-owned enterprises, Shanahan said. "So the technology that has developed in the civil world transfers to the military world; it’s a direct pipeline. Not only is there a transfer, there is systemic theft of U.S. technology that facilitates even faster development of emerging technology."
https://babalublog.com/2018/08/16/google-submits-to-chinas-censorship/
Google owns Blogger, which hosts this web log.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
-
For most of the anthrax investigation, Robert S. Mueller III was at the helm of the FBI. His protege, James Comey, took over as director bu...
-
The pronoun I generally indicates that the self is the actor, whereas the pronoun me generally indicates that the self is being or wi...
-
Anyone who thought Sarah Palin was mocking her Downs son should listen to this video, in which she decries a report on the use of abortio...
No comments:
Post a Comment