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The censorship was of the Microsoft and Google portions of the report. Removing 100 pages of a 150 page report for political reasons is for sure still censorship. And if an organiz…

I went through every 990 from the Sergey Brin Family Foundation and see no donations to the EFF in any of them (from 2014-2019). Happen to know of a source for Yasha's claim? https…

All of the figures from said article add up to EFF receiving a total of $478K from Facebook and Google over four calendar years (2015 through 2018). Of course I agree that these or…

This is an irresponsible claim if not backed up with a citation. Further, I happen to monitor corporate funding to nonprofits (including the EFF) and public reporting suggests EFF …

The article was published Nov. 4, days before the infrastructure bill passed. Not yesterday. You can easily find this in the header of the article.

Sounds a lot like the Defense Innovation Board and National Security Commission on AI.

Upgrade this from a linear system solve to a (perhaps Mixed Integer) Linear Program solution and then we're talking!

Is there prior art before alleged sabotage leading to pipeline explosion in 1982? [1] Zetter's Countdown to Zero Day points to that with skepticism and also talks about Kosovo as o…

Wikipedia on Shaw's admiration of Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin: """ Shaw's admiration for Mussolini and Stalin demonstrated his growing belief that dictatorship was the only viabl…

The entries of a matrix are eigenvalues of 1x1 minors, and clearly eigenvectors are a function of the entries. That the result is a function of (n-1) minors is first-order informat…

Aggressively normalize US companies conceding to Chinese Communist Party censorship and surveillance demands.

Turkey's drone program was also led by an MIT graduate. https://theintercept.com/2019/05/14/turkey-second-drone-age/

Why say 'align with western values' instead of 'respect human rights'? Freedom of speech and assembly are encoded in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The bill explicitly prevents that behavior. "The 'opt-in' nature...would set it apart from other state internet privacy laws... the proposed Maine law also would prohibit any [ISP]…

Both of those are typically referred to as manifolds with boundary. The setting of Stokes Theorem is often manifolds with boundary.

I completely agree with the argument that Google is no worse -- and have publicly campaigned to this effect -- but I was responding to the claim that Google should be proud of its …

That one company has also completely reversed its stance over the last year and now openly defends censoring human rights and complying with the CCP's surveillance demands. Google …

Thank you!

I never saw the blacklist for the KSA. If I had seen something like what I saw for China, I'm sure I would have fought that too. I have spent about a month visiting a university in…

There are many different fronts to wage this fight on; changing consumer behavior is only one of them. Getting the project halted is important in its own right for the reason that …

As I stated in a comment questioning what possible impact this project could have: "My primary motivation is fighting these types of capitulations becoming precedents. If an Americ…

My primary motivation is fighting these types of capitulations becoming precedents. If an American tech company will willfully aid the CCP in preventing information on human rights…

I am not okay with a company headquartered in a democratic country actively building tools to suppress political inquiry and organizing. To be clear, this included Google literally…

I completely agree that a paradigm shift is required. Thankfully, it seems we are in the middle of one. There is sustained momentum, from tech workers, the press, congress, human r…

Pushback from employees, human rights groups, and congress has already significantly set back the project. The fight has to continue, but I don't understand your defeatism. Source:…