[–] RampancyLambentRaven 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Deep State Jungle Lizard People.
[–] ar308 4 points 7 points 11 points (+11|-4) ago (edited ago)
Google would rather serve the national interests of China (via their new censoring search engine project), before they help defend their own country, the USA.
Unless you want our troops, intelligence, and other defense personnel operating inferior equipment against a technologically superior adversary, you should support what Amazon is doing here (even if you don’t like the rest of Amazon, or have some other gripe with them).
Amazon wants to serve the USA here, while all the other major tech companies (coincidentally, the more outspoken SJW ones) refuse. Let that sink in a bit before bashing Amazon and/or Bezos with some half baked “deep state” conspiracy.
Like Bezos or not, at the end of the day you need to wake up to the fact that China is rapidly catching up to the USA in tech, AI, etc. including new innovations, not just manufacturing. If we do not leverage our digital technical expertise in our defense systems, our own defenses will be rendered static, while China’s military tech advances rapidly. In such a scenario, we will be defeated by China’s ever increasingly sophisticated electronic (and perhaps someday, physical) attacks at some point in the future. Do you want that?
[–] ar308 2 points 5 points 7 points (+7|-2) ago (edited ago)
What’s that old Proverb? “Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.”
Tread carefully with any mentality where you feel unbeatable, or you will quickly find yourself complacent, fat, and lazy.
I could list pages of actually groundbreaking AI researching coming from native Chinese scientists in Chinese universities (and that just my field; not to mention their work in Quantum entanglement, and other fields). Sure, the crap-to-quality ratio of published papers in China is shameful still, but that’s because they have so many people, and granted, have some cultural issues around copying and cheating they’re working out — but they are improving rapidly and you’d be an arrogant fool to ignore this.
[–] CouldBeTrump ago
China leads the world in hypersonic missile technology.
[–] Ghetto_Shitlord 1 point -1 points 0 points (+0|-1) ago
What did "everyone else refuse" to do?
[–] RampancyLambentRaven 1 point 1 point 2 points (+2|-1) ago
Big tech pulls greatest bait and switch in history as it turns on free speech.
[–] RemoteViewer1 1 point 0 points 1 point (+1|-1) ago
but but but , the Wapo is Pedophile Owned and Operated (Podesta) ///Bezos
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[–] MaFishTacosDaBombBro 1 point -1 points 0 points (+0|-1) ago
Time to boycott all big tech companies.
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