Geoffrey Cain
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Books: THE PERFECT POLICE STATE, SAMSUNG RISING. Tech Integrity Project. "Fearless, yes, and a good one."—President Zelensky
New York
Joined April 2012
A major new AP investigation reveals how the US government helped American tech companies like @Microsoft and @amazon build China's surveillance apparatus. Across five administrations. I documented the surveillance state itself in my book The Perfect Police State (back when I
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If you found this thread valuable, check out the Tech Integrity Project. We work to prevent Big Tech from helping our adversaries. https://t.co/v5nLoCRjOn. Past signatories: Amb. Nikki Haley and Gov. Ron DeSantis.
techintegrityproject.org
Tech Integrity Project works to protect the national security and economic competitiveness of the United States by preventing American Big Tech companies from helping our adversaries, particularly...
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Rep. Chris Smith: "I think we've been naive or complicit in the extreme." The US has been "selling and conveying to a malevolent power the ability to destroy us and destroy like-minded Western democracies." Read the AP investigation.
apnews.com
Even while warning about national security and human rights abuse, the U.S. government across five Republican and Democratic administrations has repeatedly allowed and even actively helped American...
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Here's the human cost. Gulbahar Haitiwaji spent over 2 years detained in Xinjiang camps. US surveillance systems flagged her as a "terrorist." Cameras watched her even in the toilet. This is what we're really talking about.
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Why does this keep happening? The answer is lobbying by US tech firms. Tech companies spent hundreds of millions on lobbying over two decades. More than 100 lobbyists mobilized just to kill the recent cloud service proposals. Sen. Ron Wyden: "What do all those companies have in
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Companies don't hide their dealings. Microsoft and Amazon advertise services to store video surveillance footage for Chinese customers. Even Hikvision and Dahua, sanctioned in 2019 for Xinjiang abuses, use AWS and Azure to offer surveillance capabilities. The sanctions mean
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Here's the Microsoft and Amazon loophole: Chinese companies banned from buying advanced AI chips just rent them through Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS instead. Congress has tried to close this loophole four times since September 2024 alone. It failed every single time.
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First, read the full investigation here: https://t.co/4qHbtJX2u3 Reporters @garanceburke, @dakekang, and @ByronTau did exceptional work. They obtained documents, lobbying disclosures, and interviewed dozens of sources to reveal the full scope of this failure. What follows are key
apnews.com
Even while warning about national security and human rights abuse, the U.S. government across five Republican and Democratic administrations has repeatedly allowed and even actively helped American...
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How did I miss this? AOL ends dial-up service, closing the book on ’90s internet era
latimes.com
AOL’s dial-up internet has taken its last bow
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Microsoft is deep in the censorship regime of the People's Republic of China. It's the most sophisticated police state in the world and a US company is openly parading it.
Microsoft is under scrutiny for hosting software that powers China’s censorship regime. Let’s break down what’s actually happening: https://t.co/InImg8Pia3
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When I'm wrapping big book projects, I indulge in my training as a sommelier, practicing pairing and cooking with different beers and wines. Today for lunch: Bratwurst braised in Oktoberfest beer and vegetable jus, finished with horseradish, mustard, and dill.
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My cat sat on the enter key and added 40 pages to my book manuscript.
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Morning coffee from the Zelensky cup. Israel peace deal closed. Good. But no time for victory laps. Let's turn back to the unfinished business of Putin's war machine and the threat it still poses to the free world.
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You ever listen to an album so good it makes you emotional? Like damn, I’m so lucky to be alive to experience this moment
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Sunday evening break. Stewed and baked Izmir Kofte (Turkish meatballs) for three hours, soaked in my Aegean tomato sauce, with a splash of Pinot noir and pomegranate molasses, all for my wife and me.
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ChatGPT used to build surveillance capabilities for a government. The frontier is supposed to be new, but this is an extension of what they've been doing all along.
cnn.com
Suspected Chinese government operatives asked ChatGPT to help write proposal for a tool to conduct large-scale surveillance and to help promote another that allegedly scans social media accounts for...
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🧵 OpenAI says China uses ChatGPT to surveil Uyghurs and other persecuted minorities. Not mentioned in the 27-page report: Microsoft enables access to OpenAI products in China that are otherwise "banned." This Microsoft Azure loophole could enable these malign acts.
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A story that's all too common. Charity in Cambodia (or elsewhere) gets a windfall from idealist outsiders who don't know what they're getting into. Also see Somaly Mam.
wsj.com
Elizabeth Ross Johnson and a Cambodian partner shared a goal of saving children. After she died, their dreams imploded.
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No matter what you think of the Free Press, I hope everyone can admit that it is very funny that twitter got her fired from her, like, $115k a year job at the NYT and 4 years later she sold her blog for $150M and is the head of CBSNews lol
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