dChan - Q Origins Project Archive

It’s not just the United States ,but in Germany, France, Spain, Italy, the Baltic countries and beyond, Kremlin-backed hackers and propogandists have sought to inflame divisions and advance an extreme right-wing agenda. Here in the UK, senior lawmakers like Damian Collins, a Tory, and Labour’s Tom Watson, have called for a full and independent investigation into Russia’srole in the Brexit referendum.Collins, who has led the Parliamentary inquiry, warns of “a crisis” in British democracy(and I quote)“based on the systematic manipulation of data to support the relentless targeting of citizens” (unquote).And while Moscow coopts the open internet for its own purposes, Beijing is working tenaciously to end it altogether. Chinese authorities are stepping up their already prodigious censorship and control of the web through what is known as “The Great Firewall of China,” intimidating, imprisoning, or exiling anyone who dares challenge their restrictions. But Beijing is not content to merely repress its own people, but also bullies foreigntech companies, nations, and international organizations alike to accept its vision of an internet divvied up between all-controlling national governments. At home, Beijing is using artificial intelligence to construct a fearsome new 21st century modelof totalitarian repression. In the western Xinjiang Province, Chinese authorities have deployed a vast surveillance system of checkpoints and high-tech cameras that use facial-recognition to track the Uighur population. This feeds into what UN officials have described as a “massive internment camp shrouded in secrecy” that holds between 100,000 to one million Uighurs. And there are credible reports of mass detention, torture, and brainwashing. This is just the beginning. China is exporting the toolsthey’re testing to other countries, from Malaysia to Zimbabwe. The government also is collecting enormous amounts of data on all its citizens and designing a nation-wide Social Credit Score system to track their daily lives, reward behavior the state approves, and punish those who stepout of line. It’s like an episode of Black Mirror –in fact, I believe it was an episode of Black Mirror.