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#20732031 at 2024-04-16 11:38:27 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25428: Gimme The TRUTH Edition
>>20732020Information control is a central dynamic playing out in the Ukraine-Russia war. U.S. media have provided wide coverage of President Vladimir Putin's efforts to clamp down on critical news outlets, enacting new criminal penalties for those publishing "false information" about the conflict. Many independent outlets in Russia have been forced to close, including the left-leaning radio station Ekho Moskvy. The Russian government has also blocked Russian-language news sites based in the West and arrested at least 22 journalists, including the Wall Street Journal's Evan Gershkovich.Department of Homeland SecurityNina Jankowicz: The polarizing Biden official previously advised the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry on its anti-disinformation work.Department of Homeland SecurityBut far less attention has been paid to the Ukraine government's crackdown on independent and opposition media, a push aided by the U.S.-backed network of anti-disinformation groups. Even as Washington's efforts to censor information at home are drawing greater scrutiny, its support of Ukraine's efforts reflects the increasingly global reach of the American government's propaganda arms."There's an information war going on between Russia and Ukraine, and the United States is not a disinterested party - we're an active participant," said George Beebe, a director with the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. "The U.S. government has been trying to shape perceptions, and it's very difficult to separate what's intended for foreign audiences from what seeps into the Anglosphere media, if you want to call it that, including here in the United States."American influence in Ukraine's media environment stretches back to the end of the Cold War, though it has intensified in recent years. Since the outbreak of the war, USAID support has extended to 175 national Ukrainian media entities.Over the last decade, efforts to crack down on speech have been increasingly justified as an effort to protect social media from disinformation. The U.S. helped set up new think tanks and media watchdogs and brought over communications specialists to guide Ukraine's approach. Nina Jankowicz, the polarizing official whom President Biden appointed to lead the Department of Homeland Security's Disinformation Governance Board to police social media content, previously advised the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry on its anti-disinformation work.APVivek Ramaswamy: The ex-GOP presidential hopeful was tarred as part of the Russian disinformation system.APIn response to questions about the U.S.-backed anti-disinformation groups in Ukraine targeting Americans, the U.S. State Department provided a statement saying it defines disinformation as "as false or misleading information that is deliberately created or spread with the intent to deceive or mislead." It added, "We accept there may be other interpretations or definitions and do not censor or coerce independent organizations into adopting our definition." While noting that the U.S. "provides funding to credible independent media organizations to strengthen democracies in the countries we work in around the world," the statement declared, "We do not control the editorial content of these organizations."However, disclosures indicate that the U.S. government and its contractors tasked with reforming Ukraine's institutions have directly set the agenda for Ukrainian outlets. Immediately after Russia invaded Ukraine two years ago, the USAID dispensed emergency grants to its media partners, partly through the Zinc Network, a contractor based in London that has been accused of setting up covert public relations campaigns on behalf of the British government.New America - Max Blumenthal/WikimediaMax Blumenthal: The liberal journalist was tarred as part of the Russian disinformation system.New America - Max Blumenthal/WikimediaThe grant description notes that the money went to the Zinc Network and Detector Media to assist the Ukrainian government with strategic communications and to "undermine Kremlin information operations." Far from independent reporting, the grant instructions asked the recipients to provide "quick, effective PR and media engagement." In addition to countering Russian disinformation, the money was intended to "maintain public morale" and "bolster international support for solidarity with Ukraine."Last September, journalist Jack Poulson reported on a leaked report from the Zinc Network's Open Information Partnership, which helps coordinate the activities of several anti-Russian disinformation nonprofits around Europe backed by NATO members, including Detector Media.
#20715124 at 2024-04-12 04:54:49 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25407: Late Night Shift Memes Incoming Edition
(Thanks Russia many new, but many didn't)
11 Apr, 2024 21:12
US funds Ukraine outlets that censor Americans - report
'Independent' media are paid by the USAID and NED to advance Kiev's narratives and silence critics
A "sprawling constellation" of supposedly independent organizations and fact-checkers bankrolled by Washington has been behind labeling Americans who disagree with Kiev Russian propagandists, according to an investigation published on Thursday.
Journalist Lee Fang and RealClearInvestigations have looked into outfits such as New Voice of Ukraine, VoxUkraine, Detector Media and others, finding that in many cases they "promoted aggressive messages that stray from traditional journalistic practices" to support the Ukrainian government and "delegitimize its critics," both at home and abroad.
Americans they have gone after range from economist Jeffrey Sachs and University of Chicago Professor John Mearsheimer to journalists Tucker Carlson and Glenn Greenwald. Some of these outfits have also denounced a factually correct New York Times article about the battle of Avdeevka as a "Russian psyop" and "disinformation."
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) have funded scores of Ukrainian organizations. Some of them act as fact-checking partners for Meta's Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp platforms, helping Ukraine censor critics under the guise of fighting "Russian disinformation."
The London-based Zinc Network has been paid by USAIDto "undermine Kremlin information operations" and help Ukraine with its own "strategic communications."
According to another investigative journalist, Jack Poulson, Zinc's Open Information Partnership in Ukraine has defined disinformation as "verifiable information which is unbalanced or skewed, amplifies, or exaggerates certain elements for effect, or uses emotive or inflammatory language to achieve effects which fit within existing Kremlin narratives, aims, or activities."
Asked about the "anti-disinformation" groups in Ukraine targeting Americans,the State Department told Fang and RealClear that it "provides funding to credible independent media organizations to strengthen democracies in the countries we work in around the world."
"We do not control the editorial content of these organizations," the State Department insisted. According to documents Fang has reviewed, however, the US government and its contractors have "directly set the agenda" for Ukrainian outlets.
The US is "an active participant" in the information war between Russia and Ukraine, George Beebe, a director with the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, told Fang. "The US government has been trying to shape perceptions, and it's very difficult to separate what's intended for foreign audiences from what seeps into the Anglosphere media," he added.
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has accused Russia of influencing US lawmakers and society at large. While he has offered little evidence for his claims, Fang's investigation has revealed that much of the content generated by US-funded Ukrainian outlets "explicitly targets American foreign policy discourse."
https://www.rt.com/news/595765-us-funds-ukraine-censorship/
#20257278 at 2024-01-17 13:22:39 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #24856: Trump Train Rolln Into NH Edition
>>20257276
Related: Moderna Is Spying on You by Lee Fang and Jack Poulson
In an internal email sent last July, Moderna notified its team of its latest efforts to shape the vaccine debate. "We have partnered with PGP (The Public Good Projects) and Moderna's Global Intelligence, Corporate Security, Medical Affairs, Corporate Communications, Clinical Safety and Pharmacovigilance teams to provide media monitoring for misinformation at scale," Marcy Rudowitz, the company's customer program lead, wrote. "If and when a response is needed, our team will notify the appropriate stakeholders with recommendations," she added.
The extent to which the company may intervene to shape content decisions is not clear. PGP continues to boast close relations with establishment institutions, including major medical associations.
The rise of censorship is inextricably connected to the pandemic, which emerged in the U.S. in early 2020. As federal, state, and local governments imposed unprecedented regulations on Americans in the name of public health, efforts arose to discredit counter-narratives that could be spread easily on social media. Early in the pandemic, criticism of policies such as lockdowns and vaccine mandates came almost entirely from independent media, which faced shadowbans and outright censorship on various platforms.
When they introduced their vaccines in 2021, manufacturers such as Moderna, Pfizer, and Johnson & Johnson also had a powerful financial interest in bolstering such censorship.
Moderna, perhaps more than other drug firms, is overwhelmingly reliant on the continued success of its vaccine. The company announced a price hike of up to $130 a dose this month, far higher than the $15-26 for American federal contracts, according to the Wall Street Journal. "We're expecting a 90% reduction in demand," Modena CEO St?phane Bancel said, when he was asked to defend the decision. "As you can see, we're losing economies of scale."
Far from acting as a neutral arbiter, the Moderna Reports show that the company blurred the lines between public relations and public health. In many cases, Moderna's intelligence and communications team targeted accurate information that had "the potential to fuel vaccine hesitancy" as menacing forms of misinformation in its reports. Given the size and scope and the censorship industrial complex, it can be difficult to draw a clear straight line between Moderna's surveillance and actions taken against specific articles, posts, and writers. Instead, as Garay suggested, the company is one stream in an evolving ecosystem aimed at undermining dissent.
#19606612 at 2023-09-25 07:40:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #24078: Roller Coaster Ride Wheeee! Edition
"They're Heeeeeeeere". Warning: Deep State 2.0 is alive. Federal Contracting + AI Surveillance Companies = Deep State 2.0. Elected Officials have lost control. Read Matt Taibbi article.
Forget Bellingcat. Meet a Real "Open Source" Watchdog
Jack Poulson has an insider's background, an outsider's perspective, and unique technical expertise, making him an invaluable resource for monitoring the world of national security contracting
https://www.racket.news/p/forget-bellingcat-meet-a-real-open
#17477515 at 2022-09-01 18:26:26 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21423: Daytime Comfefe and Chill Edition
Documents Reveal Advanced AI Tools Google Is Selling to Israel
Google employees, who have been kept in the dark about the "Nimbus" AI project, have concerns about Israeli human rights abuses.
Training materials reviewed by The Intercept confirm that Google is offering advanced artificial intelligence and machine-learning capabilities to the Israeli government through its controversial "Project Nimbus" contract. The Israeli Finance Ministry announced the contract in April 2021 for a $1.2 billion cloud computing system jointly built by Google and Amazon. "The project is intended to provide the government, the defense establishment and others with an all-encompassing cloud solution," the ministry said in its announcement.
Google engineers have spent the time since worrying whether their efforts would inadvertently bolster the ongoing Israeli military occupation of Palestine. In 2021, both Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International formally accused Israel of committing crimes against humanity by maintaining an apartheid system against Palestinians. While the Israeli military and security services already rely on a sophisticated system of computerized surveillance, the sophistication of Google's data analysis offerings could worsen the increasingly data-driven military occupation.
According to a trove of training documents and videos obtained by The Intercept through a publicly accessible educational portal intended for Nimbus users, Google is providing the Israeli government with the full suite of machine-learning and AI tools available through Google Cloud Platform. While they provide no specifics as to how Nimbus will be used, the documents indicate that the new cloud would give Israel capabilities for facial detection, automated image categorization, object tracking, and even sentiment analysis that claims to assess the emotional content of pictures, speech, and writing. The Nimbus materials referenced agency-specific trainings available to government personnel through the online learning service Coursera, citing the Ministry of Defense as an example.
Jack Poulson, director of the watchdog group Tech Inquiry, shared the portal's address with The Intercept after finding it cited in Israeli contracting documents.
"The former head of Security for Google Enterprise - who now heads Oracle's Israel branch - has publicly argued that one of the goals of Nimbus is preventing the German government from requesting data relating on the Israel Defence Forces for the International Criminal Court," said Poulson, who resigned in protest from his job as a research scientist at Google in 2018, in a message. "Given Human Rights Watch's conclusion that the Israeli government is committing 'crimes against humanity of apartheid and persecution' against Palestinians, it is critical that Google and Amazon's AI surveillance support to the IDF be documented to the fullest."
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Though some of the documents bear a hybridized symbol of the Google logo and Israeli flag, for the most part they are not unique to Nimbus. Rather, the documents appear to be standard educational materials distributed to Google Cloud customers and presented in prior training contexts elsewhere.
Google did not respond to a request for comment.
The documents obtained by The Intercept detail for the first time the Google Cloud features provided through the Nimbus contract. With virtually nothing publicly disclosed about Nimbus beyond its existence, the system's specific functionality had remained a mystery even to most of those working at the company that built it. In 2020, citing the same AI tools, U.S Customs and Border Protection tapped Google Cloud to process imagery from its network of border surveillance towers.
Many of the capabilities outlined in the documents obtained by The Intercept could easily augment Israel's ability to surveil people and process vast stores of data - already prominent features of the Israeli occupation.
https://theintercept.com/2022/07/24/google-israel-artificial-intelligence-project-nimbus/
#11806274 at 2020-11-27 13:07:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15070: Mourning Son Brings Heat Edition
REBELLION DEFENSE - ERIC SCHMIDT Pentagon, Special Operations, Kissinger PT5
https://reportglobalnews.com/2020/05/i-could-solve-most-of-your-problems-eric-schmidts-pentagon-offensive/
'I Could Solve Most of Your Problems': Eric Schmidt's Pentagon Offensive
On another trip to a military base in South Korea in 2017, an intelligence analyst complained to Mr. Schmidt that the software he used to review surveillance videos from North Korea was clunky.
"Let me guess," Mr. Schmidt said, according to a Defense Department aide who traveled with him. "You don't have the flexibility to change that."
In December 2017, Mr. Schmidt stepped down as Google's chairman but remained on the board. He said he was seeking a new chapter.
"If I stayed as chairman, then next year would have been the same as the previous year, and I wanted a change of emphasis," said Mr. Schmidt. "As chairman of Google, what I did is I ran around and gave speeches, and went to Brussels and all the things that Google still does today. It's much better to work on these new things for me."
Google declined to comment on Mr. Schmidt's departure as chairman.
By then, Mr. Schmidt's ties to Google had caused problems in his defense work. In 2016, Roma Laster, a Defense Department employee, filed a complaint at the agency raising concerns about Mr. Schmidt and conflicts of interest, Mr. Marcuse said.
In the complaint, earlier reported by ProPublica, Ms. Laster, who worked with the Defense Innovation Board, said Mr. Schmidt had asked a service member what cloud computing services their unit used and whether they had considered alternatives. She said Mr. Schmidt faced a conflict of interest because he worked for Google, which also provides cloud services.
Mr. Marcuse, who now works at Google, said Mr. Schmidt was "scrupulous and diligent" in avoiding conflicts. Mr. Schmidt said he followed the rules forbidding conflicts of interest. Ms. Laster did not respond to requests for comment.
Mr. Schmidt soon got caught up in another issue between Google and the military. Google had signed a contract in 2017 to help the Pentagon build systems to automatically analyze drone footage to identify particular objects like buildings, vehicles and people.
Mr. Schmidt was a proponent of the effort, called Project Maven. He said he encouraged the Pentagon to pursue it and testified in Congress about the project's merits, but was not involved in the agency's selection of Google.
But the effort blew up in 2018 when Google employees protested and said they did not want their work to lead to lethal strikes. More than 3,000 workers signed a letter to Mr. Pichai, saying the contract would undermine the public's trust in the company.
It was a black eye for Mr. Schmidt. Military officials, who said Project Maven was not being used for lethal missions, condemned Google for abandoning the contract. Google employees also criticized Mr. Schmidt's ties to the Pentagon.
"He has very different goals and values than the engineers at his company," said Jack Poulson, a Google employee who protested Mr. Schmidt's military work and who has since left the company.
Mr. Schmidt said he sidestepped discussions about Project Maven because of conflict-of-interest rules, but wished he could have weighed in. "I would have certainly had an opinion," he said.
Last April, Mr. Schmidt announced he planned to leave Google's board. He had helped create an A.I. center backed by the Pentagon in 2018 and had also become co-chair of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, a new group advising Congress on developing A.I. for defense.
A month after leaving Google, Mr. Schmidt invested in Rebellion Defense, a software start-up founded by former Defense Department employees that analyzes video gathered via drone. His venture firm later put more money into the company, and Mr. Schmidt joined its board.
#4221057 at 2018-12-09 02:49:37 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5376: 2018 Will Be Glorious Edition
'F— you leakers': A former senior Google employee says a frantic quest to stop internal info getting out is now management's 'number one priority'
Jack Poulson, who quit Google in September over its search project in China, spoke about the company's culture of secrecy. He said managers are more concerned with stopping leaks than anything else. Poulson cited an engineer yelling "f— you leakers" at an all-hands meeting as an example of the attitude to leaking. Court documents and concerned employees have previously given a picture of the extreme lengths to which Google goes to protect its secrets.
A senior former Google employee who quit over its controversial plans to launch a search engine in China painted a picture of a company whose upper echelons are obsessed with stopping leaks, to the exclusion of almost anything else. Jack Poulson, a former researcher at the company, said that senior managers consider the prevention of leaks to be their "number one priority." In comments reported on Saturday by The Times of London, Poulson cited as an example of the anti-leak culture an an unnamed senior engineer taking the microphone at an all-hands meeting to yell "F— you leakers" at his colleagues.
He said that the campaign against leaking had become a way for Google to avoid tackling the reasons staff were leaking in the first place, including concerns over the Chinese search project, code-named Dragonfly, or work for the US military. Poulson left Google in September over Dragonfly, and said he believed four other employees had done the same. Google declined to comment on his departure at the time. He said, according to The Times: "The narrative is that leaking is bad and that the number one priority is to prevent any leaks." Poulson said that Google was not alone in trying to suppress employee revolts, pointing to similar movements at Microsoft and Amazon. He said the back-and-forth between workers and executives is not "going to be a short battle."
A lawsuit filed against the company in late 2016 alleged that employees have to sign a confidentiality agreement which even prevents them talking to a lawyer about what goes on at Google. It describes an internal program, called "stopleaks", to which it says employees are encouraged to report their own leaks, and those of colleagues. "Stopleaks" was referenced again in an internal email that was made public in May 2017 as part of the same lawsuit, this time in an email from the head of Google's internal investigations unit. In September of this year, Business Insider reported that Google was tightening its security still further, clamping down on access to its weekly all-hands meeting, known as TGIF (Thank God It's Friday) for employees not physically at its Silicon Valley HQ.
It came after a video of employees lamenting the election of Donald Trump was leaked to the right-wing news site Breitbart, fuelling politically toxic accusations that the search engine is biased.
https://www.businessinsider.in/f-you-leakers-a-former-senior-google-employee-says-a-frantic-quest-to-stop-internal-info-getting-out-is-now-managements-number-one-priority/articleshow/67000790.cms
#4216104 at 2018-12-08 19:54:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5370: Miyamoto Mushashi Edition
'F- you leakers': A former senior Google employee says a frantic quest to stop internal info getting out is now management's 'number one priority'
A senior former Google employee who quit over its controversial plans to launch a search engine in China painted a picture of a company whose upper echelons are obsessed with stopping leaks, to the exclusion of almost anything else.
Jack Poulson, a former researcher at the company, said that senior managers consider the prevention of leaks to be their "number one priority."
In comments reported on Saturday by The Times of London, Poulson cited as an example of the anti-leak culture an an unnamed senior engineer taking the microphone at an all-hands meeting to yell "F- you leakers" at his colleagues.
He said that the campaign against leaking had become a way for Google to avoid tackling the reasons staff were leaking in the first place, including concerns over the Chinese search project, code-named Dragonfly, or work for the US military.
Poulson left Google in September over Dragonfly, and said he believed four other employees had done the same. Google declined to comment on his departure at the time.
He said, according to The Times: "The narrative is that leaking is bad and that the number one priority is to prevent any leaks."
Poulson said that Google was not alone in trying to suppress employee revolts, pointing to similar movements at Microsoft and Amazon. He said the back-and-forth between workers and executives is not "going to be a short battle."
Business Insider has reported previously on the culture of extreme secrecy at Google.
https://www.businessinsider.in/f-you-leakers-a-former-senior-google-employee-says-a-frantic-quest-to-stop-internal-info-getting-out-is-now-managements-number-one-priority/articleshow/67000790.cms
#3074005 at 2018-09-18 17:19:33 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #3889: Dregs and Deplorables Edition
Bone Chilling Footage Shows the Horrific Tyranny Google is Now Secretly Fostering in China
Based on the history of how China treats its dissidents, Google could soon be complicit in the state-sponsored torture and murder of people for their political and religous views.
Last week, it was reported that a senior scientist at Google, Jack Poulson did the right thing and resigned from his high-paying job over his employer's decision to support censorship in China. "I am forced to resign in order to avoid contributing to, or profiting from, the erosion of protection for dissidents," he said.
The senior scientist blew the whistle last month after the Intercept revealed through leaked documents that the internet behemoth planned to launch a censored version of its search engine in Chine that will blacklist websites and search terms about human rights, democracy, religion, and peaceful protest.
After unsuccessfully pleading with his bosses to stop the implementation of this censorship platform Google is creating, Poulson tendered his resignation.
He felt it was his "ethical responsibility to resign in protest of the forfeiture of our public human rights commitments," he said.
The insidious nature of supporting such tyrannical censorship speaks for itself. However, Google apparently couldn't care less about the implications and are reportedly moving forward with the initiative anyway.
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/google-chinese-censorship-tyranny/
#3058645 at 2018-09-17 17:57:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #3870: Follow The Pen Edition
China and Google Urge Global Cooperation to Advance AI Development
Chinese government officials and business leaders including executives from Google called for global cooperation to advance A.I. technology at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, China, on Monday.
Chinese Vice Premier Liu He joined Jack Ma, the chairman of Alibaba Group, and executives from Google at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference to promote A.I. He called for foreign investment into China and promised to foster "an environment of free thinking" to bolster A.I. development.
His call for global cooperation on A.I. development contrasts with the Chinese government's plan to dominate A.I. by 2030, in part through government support of Chinese companies. He did not elaborate about his plan for further cooperation; however, the softer approach comes as the United States and China face significant tension over tariffs and trade relations.
He told conference attendees:
We're hoping that all countries, as members of the global village, will be inclusive and support each other so that we can respond to the double-edged sword effect of new technologies. AI represents a new era. Cross-national and cross-discipline cooperation is inevitable.
President Xi Jinping echoed He's remarks at the conference. In a letter to the conference, President Xi said that China could share the benefits of A.I. research with other countries.
Several American companies attended the conference, in part to show of their commitment to working on A.I. in China. Microsoft Research Asia and Amazon Web services both announced new research labs in Shanghai, while Google's Jay Yagnik presented the company's A.I. programs in the country. Google is a key sponsor of the conference in China.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai was invited to the event but declined to attend. Google's Beijing research office plans to work on a separate search platform that conforms to the Chinese censorship practices that comprise the "Chinese firewall."
Breitbart News reported last week that Jack Poulson, a senior research scientist at Google, quit the company in protest over the company's development of a censored search engine for China, suggesting it represented a "forfeiture of our values."
Chinese business leaders argued that Google's AI expansion into China proves that the country needs a global approach to A.I.
Ma said that China's regulatory system and approach to technology need to be reformed to adapt to innovative new technologies such as A.I.
"Governments should not care whether the taxi industry should be substituted," Ma said.
"Governments should pay attention to whether road safety is good and if people will be killed in traffic accidents. Whether one industry is substituted by another should be determined by the market."
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/09/17/china-and-google-urge-global-cooperation-to-advance-ai-development/
#3052135 at 2018-09-17 01:43:10 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #3862: CENTRAL command Edition
Notable
Senior Google Scientist Quits Over Plans for Censored China Web Search
BY PETR SVAB
September 16, 2018 Updated: September 16, 2018
A senior researcher has quit his job at Google in protest over the company's leaked plans to create a censored web search app for China, codenamed "Dragonfly."
Jack Poulson, 32, who worked for the research and machine-intelligence department, left Google on Aug. 31 after discussing his concerns with his bosses for several weeks. He felt that resigning was his "ethical responsibility" to protest "the forfeiture of our public human-rights commitments," he told The Intercept.
The Chinese communist regime runs the world's most sophisticated system of internet censorship and requires foreign companies to censor topics it deems "sensitive," such as democracy, human rights, and persecution of groups like Tibetans, Falun Gong practitioners, human rights activists, and others. Companies are also forced to share their data stored in China with the regime.
"Due to my conviction that dissent is fundamental to functioning democracies, I am forced to resign, in order to avoid contributing to, or profiting from, the erosion of protection for dissidents," Poulson wrote in his resignation letter.
READ MORE: https://www.theepochtimes.com/senior-scientist-quits-google-over-plans-for-censored-china-web-search_2662662.html
When a senior scientist quits Google because of ethical reasons with googles policies … we might want to note that
#3051928 at 2018-09-17 01:24:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #3861: Carpet Bombing With MOABs Edition
Senior Google Scientist Quits Over Plans for Censored China Web Search
BY PETR SVAB
September 16, 2018 Updated: September 16, 2018
A senior researcher has quit his job at Google in protest over the company's leaked plans to create a censored web search app for China, codenamed "Dragonfly."
Jack Poulson, 32, who worked for the research and machine-intelligence department, left Google on Aug. 31 after discussing his concerns with his bosses for several weeks. He felt that resigning was his "ethical responsibility" to protest "the forfeiture of our public human-rights commitments," he told The Intercept.
The Chinese communist regime runs the world's most sophisticated system of internet censorship and requires foreign companies to censor topics it deems "sensitive," such as democracy, human rights, and persecution of groups like Tibetans, Falun Gong practitioners, human rights activists, and others. Companies are also forced to share their data stored in China with the regime.
"Due to my conviction that dissent is fundamental to functioning democracies, I am forced to resign, in order to avoid contributing to, or profiting from, the erosion of protection for dissidents," Poulson wrote in his resignation letter.
READ MORE: https://www.theepochtimes.com/senior-scientist-quits-google-over-plans-for-censored-china-web-search_2662662.html
My new hero
#3033966 at 2018-09-15 17:10:39 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #3839: Another Wave Of Winning
Senior Employee Resigns From Google Over China Censored Search Engine Plans
BY COLIN FREDERICSON
September 15, 2018 Updated: September 15, 2018
A senior research scientist at Google quit after news of a search engine project in China leaked to the media.
Jack Poulson, who worked for the research and machine intelligence department, ended his employment on Aug. 31, The Intercept reported.
An Aug. 1 story by The Intercept about Google's plans to build a censored search engine in China caused an uproar at the company. Sources leaked news of the project, which was only known by a fraction of employees.
Poulson brought the matter up with his managers. He decided to resign by mid-August, seeing that Google would continue its plans.
He did not want to be involved in a company that would censor information at the request of Chinese Communist officials, simply to re-enter the Chinese market.
"Due to my conviction that dissent is fundamental to functioning democracies, I am forced to resign in order to avoid contributing to, or profiting from, the erosion of protection for dissidents," Poulson wrote in his resignation letter, obtained by The Intercept…
Long article so here's the link..
https://www.theepochtimes.com/senior-employee-resigns-from-google-over-china-censored-search-engine-plans_2661728.html
#3013640 at 2018-09-14 00:17:57 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #3813: Creepy Porn Lawyer Edition
Report: Senior Google Scientist Quits over Censored Chinese Search Engine
Jack Poulson, a senior research scientist at Google, has quit the company in protest over the tech titan's development of a censored search engine for China, claiming it represents a "forfeiture of our values."
According to the Intercept, Poulson "raised concerns with his managers at Google after the Intercept revealed that the Internet giant was secretly developing a Chinese search app for Android devices."
"After entering into discussions with his bosses, Poulson decided in mid-August that he could no longer work for Google. He tendered his resignation and his last day at the company was August 31," they reported, adding that he is possibly one of five employees to leave the company in protest.
In his resignation letter, Poulson claimed he was leaving to "avoid contributing to" the "erosion of protection for dissidents."
"Due to my conviction that dissent is fundamental to functioning democracies, I am forced to resign in order to avoid contributing to, or profiting from, the erosion of protection for dissidents," he declared. "I view our intent to capitulate to censorship and surveillance demands in exchange for access to the Chinese market as a forfeiture of our values and governmental negotiating position across the globe... There is an all-too-real possibility that other nations will attempt to leverage our actions in China in order to demand our compliance with their security demands."
Poulson also claimed he was shocked that few Google employees had chosen to resign in protest, expressing, "It's incredible how little solidarity there is on this... It is my understanding that when you have a serious ethical disagreement with an issue, your proper course of action is to resign."
According to reports, Google's censored Chinese search engine, which has been in development since Spring 2017, "will blacklist access to certain websites and restrict search terms related to human rights, democracy, religion, and peaceful protest."
Employees working on the project were ordered to "keep quiet about it," and "deflect questions," and following the revelation, over a dozen human rights groups condemned Google for the project.
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/09/13/report-senior-google-scientist-quits-over-censored-chinese-search-engine/
#3007664 at 2018-09-13 17:22:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #3805: The Puerto Rico Hurricane Death Count Edition
Jack Poulson worked for Google's research and machine intelligence department, where he was focused on improving the accuracy of the company's search systems.
https://theintercept.com/2018/09/13/google-china-search-engine-employee-resigns/
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#15604 at 2020-11-27 18:20:02 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #70: Aboard The Wandering Raider Edition
REBELLION DEFENSE - ERIC SCHMIDT Pentagon, Special Operations, Kissinger PT5
https://reportglobalnews.com/2020/05/i-could-solve-most-of-your-problems-eric-schmidts-pentagon-offensive/
'I Could Solve Most of Your Problems': Eric Schmidt's Pentagon Offensive
On another trip to a military base in South Korea in 2017, an intelligence analyst complained to Mr. Schmidt that the software he used to review surveillance videos from North Korea was clunky.
"Let me guess," Mr. Schmidt said, according to a Defense Department aide who traveled with him. "You don't have the flexibility to change that."
In December 2017, Mr. Schmidt stepped down as Google's chairman but remained on the board. He said he was seeking a new chapter.
"If I stayed as chairman, then next year would have been the same as the previous year, and I wanted a change of emphasis," said Mr. Schmidt. "As chairman of Google, what I did is I ran around and gave speeches, and went to Brussels and all the things that Google still does today. It's much better to work on these new things for me."
Google declined to comment on Mr. Schmidt's departure as chairman.
By then, Mr. Schmidt's ties to Google had caused problems in his defense work. In 2016, Roma Laster, a Defense Department employee, filed a complaint at the agency raising concerns about Mr. Schmidt and conflicts of interest, Mr. Marcuse said.
In the complaint, earlier reported by ProPublica, Ms. Laster, who worked with the Defense Innovation Board, said Mr. Schmidt had asked a service member what cloud computing services their unit used and whether they had considered alternatives. She said Mr. Schmidt faced a conflict of interest because he worked for Google, which also provides cloud services.
Mr. Marcuse, who now works at Google, said Mr. Schmidt was "scrupulous and diligent" in avoiding conflicts. Mr. Schmidt said he followed the rules forbidding conflicts of interest. Ms. Laster did not respond to requests for comment.
Mr. Schmidt soon got caught up in another issue between Google and the military. Google had signed a contract in 2017 to help the Pentagon build systems to automatically analyze drone footage to identify particular objects like buildings, vehicles and people.
Mr. Schmidt was a proponent of the effort, called Project Maven. He said he encouraged the Pentagon to pursue it and testified in Congress about the project's merits, but was not involved in the agency's selection of Google.
But the effort blew up in 2018 when Google employees protested and said they did not want their work to lead to lethal strikes. More than 3,000 workers signed a letter to Mr. Pichai, saying the contract would undermine the public's trust in the company.
It was a black eye for Mr. Schmidt. Military officials, who said Project Maven was not being used for lethal missions, condemned Google for abandoning the contract. Google employees also criticized Mr. Schmidt's ties to the Pentagon.
"He has very different goals and values than the engineers at his company," said Jack Poulson, a Google employee who protested Mr. Schmidt's military work and who has since left the company.
Mr. Schmidt said he sidestepped discussions about Project Maven because of conflict-of-interest rules, but wished he could have weighed in. "I would have certainly had an opinion," he said.
Last April, Mr. Schmidt announced he planned to leave Google's board. He had helped create an A.I. center backed by the Pentagon in 2018 and had also become co-chair of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, a new group advising Congress on developing A.I. for defense.
A month after leaving Google, Mr. Schmidt invested in Rebellion Defense, a software start-up founded by former Defense Department employees that analyzes video gathered via drone. His venture firm later put more money into the company, and Mr. Schmidt joined its board.