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How Microsoft Helped Build China’s Nightmare Surveillance | China Uncensored

China Uncensored · Youtube · 83 HN points · 0 HN comments
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Did you know Microsoft, Google, and many other Western tech companies have partnered with Chinese military universities for research into cutting edge technology, including artificial intelligence, computer deep learning and facial recognition cameras and software. The fruits of this research are currently being used to persecute the ethnic Uighur Muslims of Xinjiang. Even MIT is in on the action.

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Apr 18, 2019 · 83 points, 6 comments · submitted by panny
Dig1t
So, I really am curious why these videos are demonitized.. Does anyone know the real reason?
Barrin92
Political content seems to be frequently demonetised. Might be that advertisers want to categorically stay away from it.

Also it might simply be the channel title. "Uncensored" on youtube yields very few results in general, probably because it's heavily associated with pornographic or violent content.

techmortal
This certifiably raises a few eyebrows. But if its works in unison, why not?
polskibus
Recently there was news about MS refusing to sell their image recognition yeh due to human rights concerns

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19684688

Is it remorse?

devoply
cynic says marketing.
yorwba
They didn't sell their image recognition software to the Chinese government, military or even military-associated universities either, so there isn't really any conflict here.

I find the outrage about publishing research in cooperation with researchers at universities that also do military research (not necessarily by the same researchers!) hard to understand. Should the ISC High Performance conference remove their program chair because she's also a professor at the National University of Defense Technology? https://www.isc-hpc.com/press-releases/isc-high-performance-...

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