China’s Facial Recognition AI Targeting Uighurs IS The Gestapo

We’re hearing Gestapo thrown around a lot lately. It’s almost as though the legions of easily-propagandized ignorants wore out the constant mis-use of Nazi, Fascist and Hitler. Most of the Gestapo iterations of this are complete nonsense.

Most. Not all. The Chinese Communist government’s police state apparatus is the modern day equivalent of the Gestapo. A report leaked to the Washington Post shows that the Chinese Communist government has tested, and is presumably using, AI facial recognition software developed by Huawei to identify the Muslim ethnic minority of Uighurs and alert police — read, Gestapo. The Post story reports:

“The Chinese tech giant Huawei has tested facial recognition software that could send automated “Uighur alarms” to government authorities when its camera systems identify members of the oppressed minority group, according to an internal document that provides further details about China’s artificial-intelligence surveillance regime.

“A document signed by Huawei representatives — discovered by the research organization IPVM and shared exclusively with The Washington Post — shows that the telecommunications firm worked in 2018 with the facial recognition start-up Megvii to test an artificial-intelligence camera system that could scan faces in a crowd and estimate each person’s age, sex and ethnicity. If the system detected the face of a member of the mostly Muslim minority group, the test report said, it could trigger a ‘Uighur alarm’ — potentially flagging them for police in China, where members of the group have been detained en masse as part of a brutal government crackdown.”

Make no mistake. This is a high-tech yellow star, except instead of being physically pinned on Jews, it is digitally affixed to Uighurs — or those unfortunate enough to look Uighur. The Chinese government is on a determined genocidal mission to exterminate this minority as it continues to boot stomp other minorities and dissenters. The Chinese government is, at this point, the largest source of organized evil actions in the world.

President Trump broke with 40 years of American acquiescence to Chinese cruelty, expansionism, technology and patent theft, trade cheating and spying on U.S. companies and governments, all in return for cheap manufacturing labor. It had been a Faustian bargain for the U.S., particularly middle class, blue collar workers, innovators and patent-holders. Americans and the rest of the world had been paying for it.

Trump was right to call out China, launch the trade wars that were bearing the fruit of better deals, push back on the expansionism and cut Huawei out of providing the U.S. 5G hardware. This latest revelation could hardly have made it more clear. He also unapologetically referred to them as Communists, which they are in repressive actions on a par with the Soviets.

But it looks like Trump will be leaving the White House and his successor, Joe Biden, has a frighteningly comfortable history dealing with the Chinese and quite possibly personally profiting from doing it. Biden has said he believes that a stronger China is good for the world — a mind-numbingly naive, or corrupt, take on this tyranny — and intends to roll back many of Trump’s policies dealing with this international scourge.

You can almost picture a mildly clueless Joe Biden standing in for another mildy clueless Western leader, Neville Chamberlain. After meeting with Herr Hitler in 1939, Chamberlain/Biden waive a piece of paper declaring peace in our times. It was a rueful mistake then, and it is a rueful one now. The devil’s due is frightful to consider.

There had been some bipartisan support developing for stronger dealings with China than pre-Trump, but given the level of Trump animosity that has left much of American progressivism incapable of rational thought, and Biden’s predilection to go soft on the Beijing killers, there is a real threat that once again they will be loosed.

An aggressively expansionist, spying everywhere China and a nuclearized Iran — another distinct possibility under Biden unless Israel militarily intervenes — would create a much more dangerous world than Biden is inheriting from Trump.

The Geheime Staatspolizei (Secret State Police), abbreviated Gestapo, was the official secret police of Nazi Germany and in German-occupied Europe.

The force was created by Hermann Göring in 1933 by combining the various security police agencies of Prussia into one organization. On 20 April 1934, oversight of the Gestapo passed to the head of the SS, Heinrich Himmler, who was also appointed Chief of German Police by Hitler in 1936. Instead of being exclusively a Prussian state agency, the Gestapo became a national one as a sub-office of the Sicherheitspolizei (SiPo; Security Police).

From 27 September 1939, it was administered by the Reich Main Security Office (RSHA). It became known as Amt (Dept) 4 of the RSHA and was considered a sister organization to the Sicherheitsdienst (SD; Security Service).

During World War II, the Gestapo played a key role in the Nazi plan to exterminate the Jews of Europe. After the war in Europe ended, the Gestapo was declared a criminal organization by the International Military Tribunal (IMT) at the Nuremberg trials.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestapo

Although I understand your sentiment Governor Dinwiddie, I agree with blueunicorn6: WE are the dogs in this fight.

I find this comparison to the Gestapo interesting.

One of the things that humanity found most compellingly repellent and horrible about the Nazis was their application of industrial age principles to genocide.

In the past, the number of people that could be murdered was limited in a way to things like starving large populations, and if not, dispatching individuals to carry out murders by either sharp implements like swords and spears, or with single shot guns. The bodies were left where they lay, and the murderers didn't give it a second thought.

The Nazis turned genocide in the 20th century into an industrial process. They tried to create workflows the same way you would if you were building an airplane or a car. They tried to make everything from creating the lists of people to round up to disposal of the remains as codified, organized, and efficient as could possibly be.

And the fact that the Nazis were Germans made it even more horrible in some way, simply because the Germans were thought to be incredibly efficient and accurate at bureaucracy and applying it to industrial processes.

It was nightmarish genocide in the Industrial Age.

Now, today, China is pioneering the concepts of "creating the lists" in the Computer Age using every kind of surveillance data input possible including license plate scans, facial recognition, online activities, purchasing records, jobs, bank accounts, hospital accounts, and nearly every other thing imaginable all rolled together using pattern recognition with AI (Artificial Intelligence) into personalized dossiers with "Social Scores" (Think of them as "Party Desirability Scores")

In case anyone thinks I am being paranoid, it is well known that Google works with and has associations with a tyrannical Communist Chinese regime and is partnering with them. Check out this excerpt from a purloined presentation meant only for the eyes of top Google executives:

Entire Unedited Video for Google Management Only: "The Selfish Ledger"

The Stolen Election Part II: Stoners and Reptiles; Bill Whittle talks about Dorsey, Zuckerberg, and the Google "Selfish Ledger"

I should say, watching the second version gives context-STRONG CONTEXT to the first, and I would suggest watching the entire second video, but if you want to go right to the part where Bill Whittle describes "The Social Ledger", skip forward to the 13:27 point in the video. I would put the link to the YouTube video there that would take you to that exact point, but...since Google owns YouTube, I am trying to use alternatives like Rumble.

And this is what Communist China (as our own Left with their Media and Big Tech allies are also onboard with) has in mind: They wish to not only control the dissemination of knowledge, but to use that dissemination of information in a very specific way using AI to produce an end result they wish, which as Bill Whittle highlights in his analysis, which in ("The Selfish Ledger" video, in their words) is: "To reflect Google's values as an organization."

Or, more accurately, the Chinese Communist Party's values as an organization."

As Winston Churchill so presciently said in his most inspirational "Finest Hour" speech in 1940 when he talked about the need to stand up to the Nazis. I will paraphrase it slightly with my apologies to Winston Churchill):

Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization. Upon it depends our own Western life, and the long continuity of our institutions and our Constitution

The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us.

China knows that they will have to break us in this fight for freedom of speech, or lose the war. If we can stand up to them, all all the West may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands.

But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the United States and its Allies last for a thousand years, men will still say, “This was their finest hour.”

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