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Author
Heather Zeiger
Date
February 15, 2021

Categorized
Surveillance, Technocracy

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Agora, China, Clubhouse (app), Elon Musk, Featured, Free expression, iFlytek, Kai Strittmatter, Li Wenliang, Mark Zuckerberg, Melissa Chan, Murong Xuecun, Paul Davidson, Rohan Seth, Uyghurs, Voice recognition software, We Have Been Harmonized (book)}

For Five Days There Was Free Expression in China

_{Then censors blocked the Clubhouse app} _{Heather Zeiger

February 15, 2021

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Surveillance, Technocracy}

In March 2020, Silicon Valley entrepreneur Paul Davidson and former Google engineer Rohan Seth launched their newest app, Clubhouse. The app is an invite-only audio chat app that lets users talk in virtual rooms. These conversations can be one-on-one or they could have an audience of up to 5,000 users (the current room limit in the beta version of the app). The app is only available on the iPhone and, once invited, users must use their actual phone number and Apple ID to join. Each user is only allowed to invite up to five people. The app’s exclusive nature gave it the tantalizing aura of the “next-big-thing” among the tech types. On January 31, Space-X’s Elon Musk made an appearance Read More ›

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Author
Heather Zeiger
Date
October 12, 2020

Categorized
Global Technology, Programming, Social Media, Surveillance, Technocracy

Tagged
Ai Fen, censorship, China, Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Chinese Human Rights Defenders (organization), COVID-19, Fang Fang, Featured, Gitee, GitHub, Li Wenliang, Microsoft, Peter Hessler, Wuhan, Wuhan Diary (book)}

China: COVID-19’s True History Finds an Unlikely Home — GitHub

_{The Chinese Communist party, rewriting the COVID-19 story with itself as the hero, must reckon with truthful techies} _{Heather Zeiger

October 12, 2020

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Global Technology, Programming, Social Media, Surveillance, Technocracy}

For a brief window of time at the beginning of 2020, China’s internet censors didn’t block stories about Wuhan and COVID-19, the coronavirus. Caixin, a widely-read news magazine, published a multi-page investigative report on everything leading up to the outbreak, including the way in which the provincial authorities in Hubei, of which Wuhan is the capital, suppressed knowledge of the virus. Fang Fang, an award-winning novelist, kept a Wuhan diary online on Weibo, which was recently published as a book in the U.S. (HarperCollins 2020). For that short time, comments on the coronavirus were not being censored (Wired) at WeChat. Many people were thus able to vent their frustrations and pay their respects when 32-year-old ophthalmologist and whistleblower Li Wenliang Read More ›

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Author
Heather Zeiger
Date
February 11, 2020

Categorized
Medicine and Health, Surveillance

Tagged
___longform, censorship, China, Coronavirus, Li Wenliang}

Coronavirus in a World Without Trust

_{In China, medical heroism thrives despite both paranoia and justified mistrust of authorities} _{Heather Zeiger

February 11, 2020

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Medicine and Health, Surveillance}

While China’s citizens are living in an information vacuum, the government has stepped up its surveillance strategies in order to track people who have been near someone infected with the coronavirus. Some commentators consider these measures disproportionate to the actual risk posed to others and in violation of human rights. Others see them as necessary.