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Microsoft Helped Build China’s Surveillance [video]
- polskibus 8y agoRecently there was news about MS refusing to sell their image recognition yeh due to human rights concerns https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19684688 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19684688 Is it remorse?
- devoply 8y agocynic says marketing.
- yorwba 8y agoThey 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-appoints-asias-leading-hpc-expert-as-2019-program-chair.html https://www.isc-hpc.com/press-releases/isc-high-performance-...
- techmortal 8y agoThis certifiably raises a few eyebrows. But if its works in unison, why not?
- Dig1t 8y agoSo, I really am curious why these videos are demonitized.. Does anyone know the real reason?
- Barrin92 8y agoPolitical 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.