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Re:China’s SenseTime, the world’s highest-valued AI startup,... by munin on Thursday May 31, 2018 @02:49PM (#17198956)
The executives that made those decisions would be found, arrested, and imprisoned, if they were lucky. You can only jerk the little guy around like that. Knowledge is not power, power is power.
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Re:China’s SenseTime, the world’s highest-valued AI startup,... by JumpCrisscross on Thursday May 31, 2018 @10:48PM (#17202220)
> The executives that made those decisions would be found, arrested, and imprisoned, if they were lucky

To give mechanism to this method, in America power is competitively shared. Those the ISP is blackmailing will stay quiet. But there are others intensely motivated to uncover the crime, both inside the blackmailed politicians' orbits (to preserve their careers post-downfall) and outside it (to boost their careers by taking out a competitor, to themselves or their boss).

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Re:China’s SenseTime, the world’s highest-valued AI startup,... by toomuchtodo on Thursday May 31, 2018 @06:43PM (#17200972)
Knowledge is power-lite; when properly wielded, you can convert it into reservoirs of actual power.
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