CCP is pushing and amplifying AI opposition efforts, that’s a fact regardless of US politics. CCP is also working hard to smuggle around American export control laws for AI tech, at the same time.
I have no doubt China is taking part, what I doubt is that this makes any meaningful part of the total US anti AI sentiment, which can be much more easily explained by job loss anxieties, fear of massive change and good old NIMBYism. (Obligatory not an American).
All effective foreign interference takes popular sentiments and helps organize and focus it. You can't create movements without ground support.
But the thing is, there are a LOT of issues where the masses are generally grumpy but don't act on it. Civilization only really functions because people don't shut down the country over every populist urge. Effective agitprop amplifies this and makes it happen.
What is your point? You agree people have the right to act on their beliefs to effect democratic change, right? Surely that includes making up their own minds about information.
We should and should cut out sources of foreign funding and support, and prosecute and publicize genuine foreign agents, while allowing people to exercise their political rights.
Why? Do you believe free speech is a right only Americans should have? Or do you believe that people shouldn’t be free to evaluate competing points of view and decide for themselves?
This seems like a variant of anti-self defense logic. ‘The other guy has a right to beat you in the face with a bat, as much as you have a right to take it’.
Hint: bussing in out of towners to astro-turf ‘town discussions’ is also seen as shitty.
A quick way to test this kind of thing is, if the roles were reversed, would they still be okay with it?
I guarantee you that China and Russia would absolutely not be okay with the US doing the same thing in their territory.
What is to prove? Where are foreign powers or corporations listed as protected in the constitution?
Read it, it’s a short read.
You’re the one making bizarre statements unsupported by any cogent arguments.
Historically, unregistered foreign agents get deported, imprisoned, or executed. Not protected.
There is a long, long history of this. It’s only recently where it was possible to do this with any meaningful effect without physically being present in the US, which is the reason it is a lot harder to prosecute now. But the laws are still on the books, and the Supreme Court has had no issues supporting them in the past.
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But the thing is, there are a LOT of issues where the masses are generally grumpy but don't act on it. Civilization only really functions because people don't shut down the country over every populist urge. Effective agitprop amplifies this and makes it happen.
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Hint: bussing in out of towners to astro-turf ‘town discussions’ is also seen as shitty.
A quick way to test this kind of thing is, if the roles were reversed, would they still be okay with it?
I guarantee you that China and Russia would absolutely not be okay with the US doing the same thing in their territory.
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Read it, it’s a short read.
You’re the one making bizarre statements unsupported by any cogent arguments.
Historically, unregistered foreign agents get deported, imprisoned, or executed. Not protected.
There is a long, long history of this. It’s only recently where it was possible to do this with any meaningful effect without physically being present in the US, which is the reason it is a lot harder to prosecute now. But the laws are still on the books, and the Supreme Court has had no issues supporting them in the past.
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