This will almost certainly be used everywhere, not just China. Us crypto cyber libertarian geeks have been warning about the problem of closed silos and Intern

This will almost certainly be used everywhere, not just China. Us crypto cyber libertarian geeks have been warning about the problem of closed silos and Internet centralization for over a decade. I kind of hate being right, given that the reality is turning out to actually be a lot worse than what I feared. I mostly was concerned in the past with loss of ability to innovate and surveillance, but the collision of deep learning, big data, and closed communication platforms is making those concerns seem petty. The potential for massive scale propaganda and discourse shaping bordering on outright mind control is unbelievable. Imagine an invisible automated agent participating in every human conversation and quietly steering it toward desired topics and outcomes and away from undesirable ones. It's intimate influence at scale.