2024-04-25
Finally. This is a relief. It's the v least we should do to protect young ppl and defend ourselves from the PRC.
The Verge
President Biden signs the ByteDance-TikTok divest-or-ban bill into law, after the Senate passed it by 79-18; the House passed the legislation 360-58 on April 20
The divest-or-ban bill is now law, starting the clock for ByteDance to make its move. The company has an initial nine months …
2024-03-12
There's no legitimate defense for letting the CCP operate this thing in our country, in violation of American principles, and at the expense of our security.
Fortune
TikTok uses a non-disparagement clause in RSU contracts, perhaps to silence staff, an unusual practice; one ex-staffer claims a share buyback offer was withheld
2023-07-15
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger was in China twice in the last couple of months. And now he is coming from China to Washington, DC to talk to Congress. To do what? Lobby for reduced chip controls? https://www.reuters.com/...
Reuters
Sources: the CEOs of Intel and Qualcomm are planning to meet US officials in DC next week to discuss China policy, export controls, market conditions, and more
2022-01-03
Ppl have a sense that China having all this data is bad, but what, exactly, will they do w/ it? There has been some recent very good reporting that helps answer that. Chinese Police Hunt Overseas Critics.. - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
Investigation: how China identifies, tracks, and pressures its critics on Facebook and Twitter, including Chinese living abroad and citizens of other nations
2022-01-01
Ppl have a sense that China having all this data is bad, but what, exactly, will they do w/ it? There has been some recent very good reporting that helps answer that. Chinese Police Hunt Overseas Critics.. - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
Investigation: how China identifies, tracks, and pressures its critics on Facebook and Twitter, including Chinese living abroad and citizens of other nations
Authorities in China have turned to sophisticated investigative software to track and silence obscure critics on overseas social media.
2021-12-19
The ppl who designed the app don't have our best interests in mind. Delete it. Delete it from your kids' devices. https://twitter.com/...
Wall Street Journal
Investigation: a dozen automated TikTok accounts, registered as 13-year-olds, were shown tens of thousands of weight-loss videos within a few weeks of joining
The app's algorithm can send users down rabbit holes of narrow interest, resulting in potentially dangerous content such as emaciated images …
2021-10-15
Doing Xi's bidding on censorship, surveillance, etc shld always come w/ a huge cost- at the v least in reputation but that's likely not enough https://twitter.com/...
Wall Street Journal
Microsoft is shuttering the Chinese version of LinkedIn and replacing it with a job board; sources say China told LinkedIn in March to better regulate content
LinkedIn cites challenging operating environment, as retreat marks the biggest departure from China by a major tech company in years Source: Official LinkedIn Blog .
2021-10-01
The PRC squeezed Microsoft's LinkedIn and it worked. https://www.axios.com/...
Axios
LinkedIn blocks the profiles of several US journalists on its Chinese platform, citing “prohibited content” without specifying what it was
Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian / Axios :
Well this is awful and- if there is any bipartisan agreement to be found!- there shld be bipartisan condemnation of this https://twitter.com/...
Axios
LinkedIn blocks the profiles of several US journalists on its Chinese platform, citing “prohibited content” without specifying what it was
Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian / Axios :
2020-07-17
Fearless, this one https://twitter.com/...
Reuters
AG Barr accuses Apple, Google, and Microsoft of collaboration with CCP, says iPhones wouldn't be sold in China if they were “impervious to penetration” by China
2020-05-24
We can't successfully compete against China w/out allies making choices like this. Encouraging. https://twitter.com/...
Telegraph
Boris Johnson instructed officials to draw up plans to reduce Huawei's involvement in UK's 5G networks to zero by 2023, a reversal of a softer policy approach
The Prime Minister has instructed officials to draw up plans that would see China's involvement in the UK's 5G network reduced to zero
2020-05-23
We can't successfully compete against China w/out allies making choices like this. Encouraging. https://twitter.com/...
Telegraph
Boris Johnson instructed officials to draw up plans to reduce Huawei's involvement in UK's 5G networks to zero by 2023, a reversal of a softer policy approach
The Prime Minister has instructed officials to draw up plans that would see China's involvement in the UK's 5G network reduced to zero
2020-05-11
Hacking during COVID19- suspects are China, Russia and Iran, others ‘Dominic Raab, the foreign secretary, called the attacks “particularly venal” given that they were targeting international and national organisations responding to the COVID-19 crisis.’ https://news.sky.com/...
New York Times
Sources: the FBI and DHS are preparing to accuse China of attempting to hack vaccine data from academic and private laboratories
New York Times :