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[timelets]

It looks like we are stumbling into a cold war with China. I can see it by the sheer number of times national security is being invoked as a pretext for purely commercial actions. But most importantly, Peter Thiel is now talking about investigating Google for technology transfer to China. He is an astute businessman and often senses trends before they come into full force.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-15/thiel-urges-u-s-probe-of-google-s-seemingly-treasonous-acts

upd: notes on Thiel's speech https://twitter.com/foggyanabasis/status/1150628829565718528

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[juan_gandhi]

Так их, так их. Сам в Гугле два раза technology трансферил в Китай. Приезжает такая группа товарищей, хотят сделать "китайский оркут", покажи им да расскажи, да кодом поделись. Через год снова, потому что ничо не поняли в коде.

[timelets]

Вот сделают китайцы квантовый компьютер, тут сразу все и забегают. На всякий случай, запретят кванты в Китай продавать.

[tijd]

Some thoughts on China and "free speech":

I’ll tell you, I’m dealing with China. And they admitted there’s nobody like Silicon Valley. There’s nobody smart, in that sense — maybe not smart in other senses. I’ve watched some of them speak before Congress; it’s not pretty. (Laughter.) I say, “I could do much better than that.” (Laughter.)
But I tell you what: Technologically, it’s unbelievable what they think of. Even Dan and I, when we sat with you-know-who at Twitter — number one. We talked about certain things. He says, “You know, we could do this, this, this.” I said, “That’s really great.” You know, this is incredible stuff.
China will admit there’s nobody like these brains. But they’re not using that brilliance and they’re not using what we gave them fairly. And they have to do that.
And we don’t want to stifle anything. We certainly don’t want to stifle free speech, but that’s no longer free speech. See, I don’t think that the mainstream media is free speech either because it’s so crooked. It’s so dishonest.
So, to me, free speech is not when you see something good and then you purposely write bad. To me, that’s very dangerous speech and you become angry at it. But that’s not free speech.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-presidential-social-media-summit/

Peter Thiel knows a thing or two about "free speech" from his dealings with Gawker.

[timelets]

what we gave them

ага. мы пахали.