It's time to kick China off social media, says tech governance expert
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Speaking at the Black Hat Asia conference, Saran said China's Communist Party sees tech as a means of exerting control and uses social media to deliberately interfere in the affairs of other nations.
But China denies voices from other nations the ability to access its digital public square – while also preventing its own citizens venturing into spaces inhabited by those of other countries.
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Saran thinks that disparity needs to end.
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"Mischief abroad is the business model for Chinese tech," he said. "They are able to create hashtags that challenge national consensus and interject lies," said Saran. "We can't do that [in China], making it an unequal playing field."
"It is time to offload Chinese handles from the digital world unless we can participate there," he said. "If we are banned there, we must ban them here."
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Saran added that Chinese tech policy decision-makers are also inaccessible to outsiders – and to Chinese citizens.
Elsewhere in the world, he said, citizens can at least lobby elected representatives for change to tech-related regulations – and in theory that is a strength.
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But Saran thinks such lobbying is not succeeding at achieving important change, because Big Tech has an immense influence on society but puts profit before people.
"Digital societies need to be protected. Companies that provide for important needs need to be accountable to the people they serve," he argued.
The current lack of accountability means that tech companies are generally distrusted – even as they become integral to daily life.
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Saran suggested that effective regulation is therefore needed to make the big platforms more trustworthy, by ensuring they serve the diverse needs of a democratic polity.
But he suggested such regulation may be hard to devise and implement, because Big Tech prioritizes fostering insular communities that feel little need to celebrate the diversity that makes nations strong. ®
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Pot meet kettle
commissioner of The Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace, and a member of Microsoft's Digital Peace Now Initiative.
This guy is a MS shill... the same MS that has been working with the NSA since 2007.
Not saying that China is not using tech this way, but this guy is only jealous that China already is where people like him want the western internet to go as well...
re: Digital societies need to be protected.
I don't know how we do this. I've asked on facebook, tweeted about it, put up an insta story, no-one seems to be able to help me......
How can I stop these companies having such a massive impact on my life????
Re: re: Digital societies need to be protected.
You know you could try turning of your computer, tablet, and phone. And maybe the TV as well. Probably the fridge too if you have one of those internet fridges.
I hear there are certain places where these companies have ZERO effect on the daily lives of their residents. You know like Cultist Communes, Amish Communities, Buddhist Monk Mountain Retreats, Indigenous Villages in the middle of the Amazon, I'm sure you can find something to fit...
Western social media is blocked in China, unless a VPN is used to get around the Great Chinese Firewall (use of a VPN is illegal under Chinese law). So where are all these Chinese social media accounts coming from? Could the vast majority be coming from the CCP itself by any chance?
"If we are banned there, we must ban them here"
That seems like a perfectly reasonable attitude.