Too many folks who should know better saying info-slurping tactics of Big Tech are just as bad
Which China do you want? The innovative good global citizen, adding to the storehouse of knowledge while making better products and services? Or the autocracy, determined to advance the interests of the leadership through any and all means, untrammeled by legal safeguards within its borders and, wherever possible, outside them?
Good China first. Alibaba Cloud researchers, in conjunction with South Korean owned Solidisk, presented a paper at a conference about making cloud servers work better. Only flashy because it uses flash memory, it's athat doubles how many VMs can run on a server. The paper sets out clearly what the problems are, how they're fixed, and what results were found. The idea is in production and there's an open source implementation if you want to give it a go.
Let's move on to Bad China. On the same day as Alibaba Cloud's story, an Australian think tank published a warning that Beijing isto huge amounts of behavioral and other user data from the country's big tech firms. This data is being used at scale to improve state propaganda and disinformation, primary tools in the control of its own citizens and the influencing of those elsewhere.
This is a very hard line to take, and many look for reasons to reject it. One of the most pernicious excuses is"the West is just as bad," citing the Five Eyes intelligence sharing agreement between the UK, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, or the predatory data sins of our own dastardly Big Tech.
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