death penalty to greedy leaders of companies
With the notable exception of people in power. Corruption is real bad there, there are plenty examples of people in gov positions being filthy rich and have kids who show off their erroneous spending on Douyin.
Why not? It doesn’t really matter who steals from who in the AI race, it’s about who gets to the top first to dominate the market. So of course China would want that, as do every AI company around the world.
FYI, China although communist in name, actually functions mostly on capitalist economy, but party authority always comes first.
Blocking + Algorithms feeding things similar to your taste is already forming an echo chamber. Bluesky with it’s community driven block lists and starter packs makes this much easier too.
It can be a good thing or bad. Just depends on what you want out of the platform.
One thing people don’t/forget to mention, is that the microphones in even earpods tier wired earphones will sound infinitely better than most mics in Bluetooth headphones, even in the multiple hundred dollar tier range.
Also, you won’t be forced to go into crappy mono sound mode when on call using Bluetooth headphones. When I use BT headphones with my laptop, I almost always use the integrated mic on the laptop instead of the built in ones in the headphone due to this.
From my understanding, they do have contractors bid for projects. Though, fair and transparent or not is another issue.