White House To Unveil Alliance To Curb Human Rights Abuse of Tech (reuters.com) 39
The White House will unveil a group of countries next week that have pledged to work together to curb exports of technology that can be used by bad actors and repressive governments to violate human rights, senior administration officials said on Thursday. Reuters reports: The announcement, which will be made as part of U.S. President Joe Biden's Summit for Democracy, is aimed at addressing "the misuse of certain dual-use technologies that can lead to human rights abuses" and ensuring "critical and emerging technologies work for and not against democratic societies," the officials told reporters in a briefing call. The officials declined to name the countries that would join the group or the technologies or users targeted by it, but said members would develop and adopt a "written nonbinding code of conduct or statement of principles intended to guide the application of human rights criteria to export licensing policy." The officials singled out China as an example of a nation that has misused technology to control its population.
White To Unveil... (Score:4, Informative)
...House
To Paraphase Biden . . . (Score:1)
. . . if you don't vote^H^H^Hirtue signal for me, you ain't White.
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Are they certain (Score:1)
Are they certain there aren't any human rights abuses involved in the production of all the gadgets the US buys?
Oh, and let's not forget Gitmo. And a few other little details.
White? (Score:1)
house, bread, horse, skin, power?
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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house, bread, horse, skin, power?
I think noise is most appropriate here.
TFA not much better than TFS (Score:4, Informative)
No one says which tech, but it's about China abusing the Uyghurs.
The problem starts closer to home (Score:4, Insightful)
It would be nice if Biden was equally committed to curbing abuse of technology by American police forces.
I used to think like this too (Score:2)
But as I learn more about politics and what it actually takes to get anything done in our winner take all two party system I'm willing to cut the Democrats slack. This isn't to say I'm not goi
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Wise advice, sir.
Despite all the whining from snowflake conservatives, the political reality across most of the so-called "Free World" is political systems consisting of a corporate-owned party far to the right and one or more corporate-owned parties somewhat less openly fascist, perhaps willing to engage in a certain amount of performative, pseudo-liberal behaviour.
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Vote in your primary because you have more voice and more power there than anywhere else in our political system
You mean like how voters chose Sanders in one election and the DNC said fuck your primary votes you rubes, then the DNC spoiled the election for Sanders the next time around? If you have more power in your primary then you have no power anywhere.
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And its own government.
Note they're only talking about exports. (Score:2)
Comcast's and AT&T's various human rights abuses will remain unchallenged.
Tech that violates human rights? (Score:1)
So, waterboards? Car batteries with scrotum clamps? Clamshell packaging? Microsoft Windows?
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Those things you mention are really weak compared to other, actual oppressive governments. Get a sense of perspective.
Re: Gee what could be used to oppress and repress? (Score:2)
They're not weak, they're soft.
There's a difference: beating the shit out of people is "strong," threatening to beat the shit out of people is less so, and insinuating that bad things will happen to people who protest the regime's policies are somewhat lower down still.
Implementing a system that enables the government to put a kill switch on someone's professional and social life, and the infrastructure to identify any dangerous intellectuals and counter-revolutionaries that person has been hanging around w
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Prohibiting freedom of speech is worse in every way than voluntary contact tracing apps that preserve privacy.
Re: Gee what could be used to oppress and repress (Score:1)
They're voluntary here. They're mandatory and not privacy preserving elsewhere.
Coach people to accept random app drops onto your phone today (Massachusetts did this with their contact tracing app early this year) and there's your precedent, first for making it opt-out instead of opt-in, and then mandatory, and then no longer privacy preserving.
Just because there is an actual public health rationale for some of these things does not mean they can't be misused in a way contrary to the principles of liberal de
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Coach people to accept random app drops onto your phone today (Massachusetts did this with their contact tracing app early this year) and there's your precedent, first for making it opt-out instead of opt-in, and then mandatory, and then no longer privacy preserving.
Slippery slope fallacy. For it to not be a fallacy, you need to show that each step must necessarily follow from the previous, which in this case, isn't true.
Re: Gee what could be used to oppress and repress (Score:1)
Incorrect. In order for it to be a fallacy, the motive, opportunity, and capability cannot co-exist. If all three do co-exist, then it's an actual threat as opposed to a conspiracy theory.
Let's try another scenario. If you leave your car unlocked in the rough part of town, does it necessarily follow that your shit is going to get stolen? No. It's certainly possible that the dude you saw down the block trying all the doors would skip yours or get bored before he gets to yours, but you still better lock your
Re: Screw a bunch of this. (Score:1)
You keep calling the US a land of freedom, yet it was built on slavery.
Re: Screw a bunch of this. (Score:5, Informative)
1777 - State of Vermont, an independent Republic after the American Revolution, becomes first sovereign state to abolish slavery
- United States passes legislation banning the slave trade, effective from start of 1808.
The Republican Party was founded in 1854 by opponents of the Kansas–Nebraska Act which allowed for the potential expansion of chattel slavery into the western territories.
1862 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln proclaims emancipation of slaves with effect from January 1, 1863; 13th Amendment of U.S. Constitution follows in 1865 banning slavery
Vs British Empire
The Slavery Abolition Act came into effect on 1 August 1834, abolishing slavery throughout the British Empire, including British North America. The Act made enslavement officially illegal in every province and freed the last remaining enslaved people in Canada.
Mexico
The Mexican Congress fully outlawed slavery in 1837
Except for a few southern US states Slavery was Pushed out of North America in 190 years ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Slavery_Act,_1843
Slavery was all but gone in 1860s, and suddenly there was State Socialism, Marxism and Leninism to make use of entire classes of people of use to crocked government for the cost of unfulfilled promises.
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Add to that the fact that slavery still exists around the globe in various places and various forms. The US and the West in general has done a lot to combat slavery.
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When the Saudis, or the Indonesians, or the Egyptians, or the Argentinians, or anybody else who is an "ally" of the US decides to repress some portion of their own population the US is enthusiastically on board, as long they don't call themselves communists. If they do that the CIA will be in like a flash.
The other problem America has now is that the whole world can see what the repub
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You keep calling the US a land of freedom, yet it was built on slavery.
This is a non sequitur and the statement itself is not historically accurate. Slavery played a minor role in the development of the US.
If we don't (Score:3)
"White To Unveil Alliance To Curb Human Rights Abuse of Tech"
If we don't proofread and correct mistakes then the errorists win.
Start with Twitter and Facebook and 60 minutes (Score:2, Insightful)
Russia-collusion hoax on MSM 24x7
Censor the Hunter Biden laptop scandal but publish Trumps tax records
Tara Reid interview shown on Australia 60 minutes but not in the US
This Admin is guilty of many Human Rights abuses (Score:2, Insightful)
**The people that actually caused some damage, or were egging on the crowd to go into the White House, mysteriously have immunity and even protection from the FBI... The people that are in jail, many in solitary confinement for months, some of which have now di
Headline (Score:2)
Organization known to use technology to violate human rights wants other countries to not do it.
Translation (Score:2)
The countries we don't like, have to do what me and my friends say.
The USA exports a lot of tech... (Score:4, Insightful)
...& military equipment, ordinance, training & intelligence services to its allies who then use it to commit war crimes & crimes against humanity, e.g. Saudi Arabia's military campaign against Yemen. So how would this 'alliance' to curb human rights abuses work in this context?
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