{"id":532,"date":"2019-06-18T09:51:26","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T13:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kjmaclean.com\/wordpress\/?p=532"},"modified":"2019-06-18T09:53:05","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T13:53:05","slug":"freedom-in-the-age-of-big-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjmaclean.com\/wordpress\/freedom-in-the-age-of-big-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom in the Age of Big Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NBC News did an excellent program on the Chinese social credit system, which essentially creates a police state using artificial intelligence, complete with \u201ctattlers\u201d who spy on their neighbors and report suspicious conduct to the authorities. I am posting this program without comment, other than to say that the equivalent in the US is the intelligence-community-monitored Big Tech information gathering companies like Facebook, Google, Twitter, Apple, etc. The CCP (Chinese Communist Party) hasn\u2019t yet perfected the social credit system, which (the program says) will take another 5\u201315 years. If you have ever seen the program \u201cPerson of Interest\u201d you will recognize the sesame credit system as similar to the one in that program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A Look Inside China\u2019s Social Credit System | NBC News Now\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0cGB8dCDf3c?start=251&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a nation of 1.4 billion people, it\u2019s important to have\nsocial stability. But at what cost? Here we have an example of East-West cultural\ndifferences. Western societies are younger and place more emphasis on individual\nfreedoms. Eastern cultures are more concerned with social harmony. The point\nis, how do you achieve social harmony?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In both Western Big Tech and the Chinese Sesame Credit system, algorithms and AI are used to regulate human conduct. (See \u201cAlgorithms have gotten out of control. It&#8217;s time to regulate them,\u201d The Week, Navneet Alang, 3 April 2019, <a href=\"https:\/\/theweek.com\/articles\/832948\/algorithms-have-gotten-control-time-regulate\">https:\/\/theweek.com\/articles\/832948\/algorithms-have-gotten-control-time-regulate<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">China is the leader of the East, the US is the leader in the\nWest. You can see the similar development of human regulation in both areas. East-West\nis again part of the light-dark duality, which humanity is resolving now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s something to think about in this monumental battle for\nthe heart and soul of humanity. On the one hand, coming together is a divine\nimpulse and it represents cooperation and harmony. On the other hand, a forced\nstate-sponsored police state is not the answer. OUR choices will make the\ndifference whether freedom or tyranny is the theme for future generations of\nthe human race. The time to decide is now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBC News did an excellent program on the Chinese social credit system, which essentially creates a police state using artificial intelligence, complete with \u201ctattlers\u201d who spy on their neighbors and report suspicious conduct to the authorities. 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