I co-authored the letter with Steve Soble of Assured Enterprises, who has been tracking China and technology issues as long as I have been. …
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The dream of a global unfettered Internet is dying
When the Internet first started taking root, many enthusiasts including myself thought it would become a great connector of people around the world. It would build mutual understanding and maybe even foster peace. How incredibly naive, as we are now discovering. The latest news from The New York Times is that Russia is cracking down on […]…
How China Manipulates the United Nations System
We’ve just witnessed how China influences the World Health Organization as it sought to investigate the origins of Covid-19. But that is just a piece of the broader pattern, as this report from Gateway House in Mumbai has concluded. China is, for example, trying to manipulate the U.N. agency in charge of international telecommunications standards […]…
Apple Is the Wealthiest Corporation in History–What if the Chinese Communist Party Shapes Its Behavior?
This is an excellent article by Lauren Jackson in today’s New York Times interviewing Shoshana Zuboff, author of “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism.” Zuboff says: “Apple is the wealthiest and most powerful corporation, certainly in modern history, perhaps in the history of capitalism. And Apple now exerts unilateral, essentially unaccountable control over critical communications infrastructures, […]…
The compromises that Apple and other Big Tech companies make in China
Apple has made very questionable compromises with China’s Communist government to operate its data centers containing Chinese customer information there. The government essentially controls Apple’s data centers, according to this excellent article in today’s New York Times. Apple says its systems in China are “sequestered” from the rest of its global iCloud platform. Yet at […]…
