{"id":219228,"date":"2021-04-05T02:49:25","date_gmt":"2021-04-04T23:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/googles-chinese-kowtow-endangers-security-and-freedom\/"},"modified":"2021-04-05T02:49:25","modified_gmt":"2021-04-04T23:49:25","slug":"googles-chinese-kowtow-endangers-security-and-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/googles-chinese-kowtow-endangers-security-and-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"#Google’s Chinese kowtow endangers security and freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Google’s Chinese kowtow endangers security and freedom<\/strong>”
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\u201cCapitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them,\u201d Lenin supposedly said. It\u2019s\u00a0a lesson Google, and America as a whole, may soon learn the hard way in dealing\u00a0with Communist China.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A few weeks ago, Eric Schmidt, who led Google from 2001 to 2015,\u00a0testified before Congress that the Chinese Communist Party is quickly becoming a major threat on technology<\/a>, especially \u00adartificial intelligence, or AI.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI am convinced that the threat of Chinese leadership in key technology areas is a national crisis,\u201d he said. \u201cAI will be leveraged to \u00adadvance all dimensions of national power \u2014 from health care to food production to environmental sustainability .\u2009.\u2009. Within the next decade, China could surpass the United States as the world\u2019s AI superpower.\u201d<\/p>\n

Schmidt was right to sound the alarm. But he stopped short of naming one of the main culprits: Google.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In 2017, Google opened an artificial-intelligence laboratory in Beijing. The company is also collaborating on AI with two top-tier Chinese universities.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Opening an AI lab was quite a turnaround for Google. The company had previously abandoned mainland China in 2010, after the Beijing regime demanded that Schmidt and his colleagues censor their search engine.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Why the flip? Money.\u00a0<\/p>\n

By 2017, \u00adrecounts New York Times journalist Cade Metz in his new book, \u201cGenius Makers,\u201d \u201cGoogle was having second thoughts about China. The market was too big to ignore.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Having wised up to the dangers posed by Beijing\u2019s totalitarians, Google decided to sell them rope anyway.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Worse, far from fulfilling the techno-utopian dream of spreading American values to the ends of the earth and facilitating a more open world \u2014 remember the early 2000s? \u2014 Google and other tech giants have now\u00a0implemented one of Communist China\u2019s core principles in the US homeland, namely, censorship.<\/p>\n

Despite being a victim of unfair censorship in China, Google is now wielding the stick here in America. Google was one of several monopolistic Big Tech companies that helped purge Twitter<\/a> alternative Parler from the Internet in January.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Parler\u2019s offense was supposedly not policing its user content \u00adaggressively enough. But the same \u2014 or worse \u2014 could have been said of Google.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In 2019, reporters and activists pointed out that Google-owned YouTube\u2019s algorithm promoted over-sexualized content involving children. \u201cA network of pedophiles is hiding in plain sight\u201d at YouTube, warned Wired magazine. The problem had plagued YouTube for years. By Google\u2019s own standards, YouTube ought to have been taken off-line.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bottom line: We need pro-American tech companies. Google\u2019s China saga reveals the stakes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

One is an open Internet. China censors news<\/a>, criticism and free speech. Chinese-style censorship of Web sites or app<\/a>s is a threat to the \u00adInternet itself if it is applied by Google or other Big Tech companies outside\u00a0China.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The second is the question of who controls our century, China or the United States.<\/p>\n

In 2018, Russian strongman Vladimir Putin predicted: \u201cWhoever becomes the leader in this sphere [AI] will become the ruler of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Chinese government recognizes this through its \u201cMade in China 2025\u201d policy. The goal is to dominate 10 high-tech fields in the next four years. AI is one of the 10.<\/p>\n

With those stakes, US companies have a duty not to help a totalitarian \u00adadversary in any plausible way. Even though Google has said publicly that it doesn\u2019t work with the Chinese military, at the end of the day, it simply has no control over how its tech in China is used.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In China, unlike in the United States, there is no bright line \u00addividing private enterprise and the regime. Businesses in China \u2014 and the technology they develop \u2014 are made to serve the Communist Party\u2019s ends.<\/p>\n

A major challenge for the Biden administration will be how to \u00adreclaim and secure our supply chains for critical goods. That should include medicine and other strategic commodities. But it shouldn\u2019t stop there: We can\u2019t permit Beijing to dominate the global flow of information and, with it, our ability to think freely.<\/p>\n

Our government and corporations should be aligned on this principle: America mustn\u2019t sell our long-term \u00adfuture for\u00a0short-term gains. We can\u2019t afford to sell rope to those who\u2019d use it to hang us.<\/p>\n

Rick Berman is president of the American Security Institute.<\/em>\n <\/div>\n

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