Posted on 11/19/2016 6:57:14 AM PST by BenLurkin
U.S. tech companies have in many cases resisted cooperating with the government, saying free expression is guaranteed by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and they should not be placed in the position of determining speech that crosses the line into posing a public threat.
Such qualms are rare in China. During one session at the conference, former Hong Kong police officer Kam Chow Wong took the stage and flashed pictures across the big screen behind him of Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters in 2014.
“These kind of people, once they are radicalized, they become the next generation of terrorists,” said Mr. Wong, who went on to describe how the protesters used Facebook and Twitter.
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China’s President Xi Jinping opened the conference with video remarks calling for a “more fair and equitable” governance of the global web. The main speaker at the conference wasn't a technology official, but the Chinese Communist Party’s ideological chief Liu Yunshan. Mr. Liu proclaimed China to be a global opinion leader on the use of new technologies in counterterrorism.
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Many industry stakeholders aren't convinced. But the presence of big western companies at the conference -- including Facebook, International Business Machines Corp., Qualcomm Inc., Microsoft Corp. and LinkedIn Corp. -- illustrated the importance of China to their businesses.
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Pro-democracy - "radicalized"
They know they live in a glass house.
“Catch that?
Pro-democracy - “radicalized” “
Imagine his view of the world. It is well ordered, peaceful and he is in charge of his portion of it. Anything that threatens that view is radical to him. Someone who gets the idea that there is a different way of ordering the world from the one he sees has been “radicalized.” This is the problem that the Muslim world has with our world. We do things differently and threaten their view of the world. Especially, since the lowliest member of the Western world can end up richer than they would if they were in the Muslim world or the Chinese world. That would surely upset the calm, ordered and peaceful world that they know. Therefore it must be stopped. This is why Obama was so eager to surrender US control of the internet.
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