How US tech giants are helping to build China’s surveillance state

The OpenPower Foundation - a nonprofit led by Google and IBM executives with the aim of trying to "drive innovation" - has set up a collaboration between IBM, Chinese company Semptian, and U.S. chip manufacturer Xilinx. Together, they have worked to advance a breed of microprocessors that enable computers to analyze vast amounts of data more efficiently. Shenzhen-based Semptian is using the devices to enhance the capabilities of internet surveillance and censorship technology it provides to human rights-abusing security agencies in China, according to sources and documents. A company employee said that its technology is being used to covertly monitor the internet activity of 200 million people. IBM, of course, has always been perfectly fine with aiding in and profiting from genocide, so it's not really surprising that the company jumped at the chance to aid the totalitarian Chinese regime's genocide against the Uhgurs. Google's involvement may be slightly more surprising since the company has no real presence in China, but I don't think anyone should be shocked. Many western companies choose profits over ethics in China, such as Apple, who aides the Chinese dictatorship's massive surveillance state by handing over all Chinese Apple user's iCloud data to the Chinese government. Since such anti-privacy measures are legally mandated in China, you can safely assume that any western technology company active in China is just as guilty as IBM, Google, and Apple.