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- Comment on "Meta and X are going rogue:" European Digital Rights group (EDRi) urges EU to invest in infrastructure "like Mastodon, Peertube and other key pieces of the Fediverse" to secure Europe's independence 12 hours ago:
Did you even click the link?
Your quote is not accurate, it is edited.
The entire text is about more (re-)decentralization, more individual autonomy, open source.
- Comment on Cutting-edge Chinese “reasoning” model rivals OpenAI o1—and it’s free to download 14 hours ago:
[It] will not generate responses about certain topics like Tiananmen Square or Taiwan’s autonomy, as it must “embody core socialist values,” according to Chinese Internet regulations.
China is trying to sell its self-defined “core socialist values” in AI along with other projects, it’s so-called called “AI Capacity Building and Inclusiveness Plan” which is aimed particularly at the Global South.
[Chinese] Government rhetoric draws a direct line between AI exports and existing initiatives to expand China’s influence overseas, such as Xi Jinping’s signature Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and Global Development Initiative (GDI). In this case, the more influence China has over AI overseas, the more it can dictate the technology’s development in other countries […]
[According to the Chinese government] AI must not be used to interfere in another country’s internal affairs — language that the PRC has invoked for as long as it has existed, both to bring nations of the global south on board in China’s ongoing efforts to seize Taiwan and to deflect international criticism of its human rights record […]
China’s decision to co-launch its AI Capacity Building plan with Zambia also had a symbolic element. PRC state media reported that the African nation was the recipient of thousands of Chinese workers and hundreds of millions of RMB in loans in the 1960s, making it the beneficiary of one of China’s earliest overseas infrastructure projects — another thread connecting the latest in AI cooperation with China’s long-held ambitions to lead the developing world, even as it becomes a superpower in its own right. In a 2018 meeting with the Zambian president, Xi said they must jointly “safeguard the common interests of developing countries.” […]
- Comment on China's RedNote Recruited US Influencers to Promote App Amid TikTok Ban Uncertainty 1 day ago:
This new comment is even more ignorant. But feel free to comment what you suggest instead of downplaying this analysis.
- Labour MP Says Current Law 'Not Sufficient' To Stop Forced Labour Goods Entering UKwww.politicshome.com ↗Submitted 1 day ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 0 comments
- "Meta and X are going rogue:" European Digital Rights group (EDRi) urges EU to invest in infrastructure "like Mastodon, Peertube and other key pieces of the Fediverse" to secure Europe's independenceedri.org ↗Submitted 1 day ago to technology@beehaw.org | 25 comments
- Comment on “It Could Become An Espionage Hub”! China’s ‘Super Embassy’ Plans In UK Gets Human Rights Group Worried 1 day ago:
Why are you downplaying this?
The British intelligence agency, M15, has also warned that the building would be extremely close to crucial communication cables, which could be compromised or attacked by the Chinese in a potential espionage attempt.
“Policing this proposed Embassy would require officers to be taken away from frontline duties to fulfill the requirement of policing spontaneous and known protests at this location,” Jon Savell, Deputy Assistant Commissioner of Special Operations, said in a letter dated November 14 last year.
International rights organizations urged the British government to reject the plan because they were concerned about a rise in Chinese espionage and infiltration efforts against Tibetans, Uyghurs, Hong Kong residents, and supporters of the British democratic movement.
The planned embassy “would serve as a hub for China’s authoritarian agenda, targeting dissidents, monitoring communities, and undermining democratic values on British soil,” the Free Tibet group said.
- Comment on China's RedNote Recruited US Influencers to Promote App Amid TikTok Ban Uncertainty 1 day ago:
Here is a video by Matt Brown analyzing RedNote.
Chinese RedNote App Exposes Sensitive User Data — (18 min, here is an alternative Invidious link)
TLDR: It’s sending most of the app data in cleartext HTTP instead of TLS, while some of the TLS are not done in a secure way. It is true that other social media apps send data back to the servers, but here it appears to be less safe, enabling attackers to do so in transit.
- Submitted 1 day ago to technology@beehaw.org | 8 comments
- ‘Horrified’: Former founder of British clothing brand All Saints slams Chinese platform Shein for fast-fashion practiceswww.cityam.com ↗Submitted 1 day ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 0 comments
- New City minister's pro-China stance under scrutiny over her former lobbying involving fewer restrictions on Chinese businesseswww.bbc.com ↗Submitted 1 day ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 0 comments
- “It Could Become An Espionage Hub”! China’s ‘Super Embassy’ Plans In UK Gets Human Rights Group Worriedwww.eurasiantimes.com ↗Submitted 1 day ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 3 comments
- Does TikTok really cause brain rot? New study from China links short video addiction to brain abnormalitieswww.psypost.org ↗Submitted 1 day ago to technology@beehaw.org | 3 comments
- Comment on TikTok users particularly susceptible to Russian and Chinese misinformation, study finds 2 days ago:
@technocrit
For the few months that I haven been here you have been flooding the comms with 1 or 2-sentence messages like this one and literally every single of them convey the one and the same narrative. Are you really this braindead or do you need the 50 cents so urgently for always the same derailed comments?
- Shein, AliExpress, Temu: More than 85% of products from Chinese platforms fail to meet EU regulations regarding health and safetyecommercenews.eu ↗Submitted 2 days ago to technology@beehaw.org | 11 comments
- Comment on TikTok Starts Working Again After Trump Says He Will Stall a Ban 2 days ago:
Now jolly old Elon wants Xitter being allowed in China …
While TikTok is allowed to operate freely in the US, Musk pointed out that his platform, X, is banned in China. Musk stated that the situation is “unbalanced” and added, “Something needs to change."
- Submitted 2 days ago to technology@beehaw.org | 14 comments
- In the wrong hands: Millions of users gave their data to an American ‘travel assistant’ app. Then its creator sold it to a Russian businessman with close ties to Putin.meduza.io ↗Submitted 2 days ago to technology@beehaw.org | 0 comments
- Comment on 3 days ago:
@bungalowtill
I suggest you read the study before commenting (the link works fine here, but you’ll find it also in the article).
The study finds, among others, that TikTok users exhibited significantly more positive attitudes towards China’s human rights record as reports on forced labour and other human rights violations by the Chinese government are suppressed.
The Chinese government is actively silencing the views of Americans who try to criticize the Chinese government and the Chinese Communist Party, according to the study.
Free speech doesn’t mean that foreign autocratic governments can silence Americans (nor other countries’ citizens) from expressing their opinion in public forums. This is what happens on Tiktok, and, even more so, on Red Note.
- U.S. FTC Surveillance Pricing Study Indicates Wide Range of Personal Data Used to Set Individualized Consumer Priceswww.ftc.gov ↗Submitted 3 days ago to technology@beehaw.org | 3 comments
- Comment on 3 days ago:
There is a recent study on Tiktok and how it compares to Instagram and Youtube – (pdf)
An article about the study says:
The three-level study, which has now been peer-reviewed, looked at TikTok, Instagram and YouTube.
Typing in four politically-loaded key words – “Tiananmen,” “Tibet,” “Uyghur,” and “Xinjiang” – the team first looked at what content the respective algorithms delivered.
The researchers found that while TikTok might not deliver more pro-CCP content, it did deliver less anti-CCP content than the rival platforms. It also, interestingly, delivered more content that researchers say was irrelevant to the keywords.
The team next looked at engagement to see if this explained why anti-CCP content was performing less well. But it found that TikTok users “liked or commented on anti-CCP content nearly four times as much as they liked or commented on pro-CCP content, yet the search algorithm produced nearly three times as much pro-CCP content”. This didn’t happen on Instagram or YouTube.
The last element of the study looked at the impact the content was potentially having on users. The researchers surveyed 1,214 Americans to find information on their social media usage, and their opinion on China’s human rights record. What they found was that the more time users spent on TikTok, the more positive their attitude towards the CCP was.
The researchers came to the damning conclusion that “taken together, the findings from these three studies raise the distinct possibility that TikTok is a vehicle for CCP propaganda.”
Another widely ignored issue regarding Tiktok and other Chinese apps is that European digital rights organization Noyb has filed GDPR complaints against TikTok, AliExpress, SHEIN, Temu, WeChat and Xiaomi for unlawful data transfers to China.
- US: Rather Than Ban TikTok, the Best Way to Protect App Users is to Strengthen Privacy, Transparency, and Security Protections Online, Freedom House Saysfreedomhouse.org ↗Submitted 5 days ago to technology@beehaw.org | 3 comments
- Comment on What Is the Future of Ukraine’s Mineral Reserves? 5 days ago:
I agree, and I also thought to post it in ‘News,’, but the commodities are needed for things like semiconductors, solar PVs, LED lights, circuitry, … I am unsure. But I would be interested to know what others and the admins and mods say. Please let me know what you think about it and I post such things elsewhere.
- Submitted 5 days ago to technology@beehaw.org | 2 comments
- We are only seeing 'the tip of the iceberg:' China's Salt Typhoon spies spotted on US govt networks before telcos, cybersecurity chief sayswww.theregister.com ↗Submitted 5 days ago to technology@beehaw.org | 0 comments
- Comment on TikTok Users Gleefully Embrace Even More Chinese App To Spite US TikTok Ban 6 days ago:
@spit_evil_olive_tips@beehaw.org
the average American worker has more in common with the average Chinese worker than they do with an American oligarch
The average American worker has also more in common with the average Chinese worker than they do with an
American oligarchChinese oligarch and Chinese dictator. So your argument is not very valid.all of the American propaganda about how Chinese people are inherently untrustworthy and nefarious is gonna fall apart as people interact with actual Chinese people and realize “oh they’re pretty much just like me, other than the language barrier”.
No one says that Chinese people are worse or better than Americans or any other people on this planet. We’re all the same. The problem here is the dictatorship in China that collects data of Americans and other people around the globe as others in this thread already have said. The Chinese people are fine, the Chinese government is not.
- 'TikTok, AliExpress, SHEIN & Co surrender Europeans’ data to authoritarian China:' Max Schrems' digital rights group files GDPR complaintnoyb.eu ↗Submitted 6 days ago to technology@beehaw.org | 0 comments
- Comment on TikTok Users Gleefully Embrace Even More Chinese App To Spite US TikTok Ban 1 week ago:
I am not a mod, but I guess this happens sometimes. No stress I would say.
- Comment on TikTok Users Gleefully Embrace Even More Chinese App To Spite US TikTok Ban 1 week ago:
There is already a thread here: beehaw.org/post/18010336
- Comment on With a TikTok Ban Looming, Users Flee to Chinese App ‘Red Note’ 1 week ago:
How many of this growth is organic?
- Marvel game, developed with the Chinese firm NetEase, ‘bans’ the words ‘free Taiwan’ and ‘Winnie-the-Pooh’www.thetimes.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 9 comments