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May 26, 2020
YouTube is blocked in China by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). But that doesn’t seem to stop the censorship of criticism about the CCP.
According to Palmer Luckey, the founder of tech companies Oculus and Anduril, YouTube deleted his…
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February 7, 2019
What happens when the front page of the internet is funded by the company that made the Great Firewall in China?
Reddit, the internet forum for communities, posts, and news, is currently fundraising to keep itself afloat, with a $300 million goal.…
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May 31, 2019
Tech companies have been strangely silent on the subject of Chinese censorship. But one reason for their silence might be the millions Chinese companies have invested in these platforms.
In a May 30 podcast with the Harvard Business Review, Reddit…
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October 10, 2019
Apple has no problem being woke, except when it might cost the company billions of dollars.
Apple removed an app, called HKmap.live, from the app store after it received criticism from the Chinese government. People’s Daily, the Chinese state…
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October 17, 2019
Facebook and its developers have been in the race to define and correct what the platform calls hate speech. But in a speech given to Georgetown University, CEO Mark Zuckerberg suggested a different direction for the company.
In his speech, titled…
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October 21, 2019
TikTok, the viral Chinese app that may live on your high school student’s phone, serves another devious purpose. It is a propaganda tool for the Chinese government.
Australian human rights activist and Uyghur Muslim Arslan Hidayat tweeted a…
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November 4, 2019
Two tech companies have allegedly declined to testify at a hearing held by Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) about their dealings on China.
The hearing, held by the Senate Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism, will focus on “How Corporations and Big…
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January 2, 2020
Apps collect data about their users. What happens when a foreign government owns that data?
The U.S. military did not want to find out. According to an NBC News report, the Defense Information Systems Agency advised employees to avoid using the app…
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