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The Heritage Foundation: keeping the world safe for entitled white christian males since 1973.

Wikipedia: Heritage also became involved in the culture wars of the 1990s with the publication of "The Index of Leading Cultural Indicators" by William Bennett. The Index documented how crime, illegitimacy, divorce, teenage suicide, drug use and fourteen other social indicators had become measurably worse since the 1960s."

China Social Credit 2019. Some local governments have taken things further. Shijiazhuang, the capital of Hebei province, designed a map on WeChat that warns people when they’re within 500 meters near a “deadbeat,” the word used by authorities to describe those who fail to repay their debts. One county also made a ringtone that warns people when they’re calling a “deadbeat."

As Google continues to help China build a censored search engine (and lies about it), the person you want to help with your AI ethics initiative is from the organization that fanned the flames of the 90's Culture War. President "Grab Them by the Pussy" Trump is 100% on board.

What could possibly go wrong?

Apple and others have made similar concessions. Where's the outrage?

When Google pulled its search engine from mainland China in 2010, the company says it was due to censorship concerns, so if this is true, it would mark a major turnaround.

But it also wouldn’t be the first time we’ve seen American companies caving in to China’s demands to gain access to the world’s largest internet market.