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Microsoft hosts ready-to-use political censorship software on its Azure Marketplace in China, further evidence of how the company has aided the development and implementation of the country’s repressive system of political control.
revealed American tech companies like Dell, IBM, and Microsoft are increasingly recognized to have played a pivotal role in the construction of the modern Chinese surveillance state over the last two decades by providing critical hardware and software. Less documented is the role some U.S. companies have played in enabling mass censorship. Microsoft in particular aids and abets censorship by the Chinese government far more proactively than previously reported. The company hasfor censoring Bing search results in China. Open-source evidence now indicates that Microsoft hosts two Chinese apps on its Chinese Azure Marketplace that further facilitate censorship of political topics. These plug-and-play products can be deployed by other Azure-using enterprises across China, enabling China’s aggressive censorship of political speech in the country. The Chinese Azure Marketplace currently features a product by a Chinese big data company, Data Grand , entitled “Text Political and Pornographic Identification” .that it “provid clients with high-quality text content review services” and can determine if content “violates political or pornographic regulations, also giving the severity of the violation.”in 2017 — and at that time it was accepted, the startup was already advertising its censorship capabilities on its website. Microsoft has evidently not severed the relationship.is called Tezign , which can “utomatically identify text content in images and videos, promptly detect non-compliant content such as pornography, violence, politically sensitive content, and malicious advertising, mitigate business risks, and significantly reduce manual review costs.”Microsoft stated Microsoft’s support of the Chinese censorship regime through its Azure Marketplace is part of a broader pattern of complicity of U.S. companies in profiting off of China’s burgeoning surveillance state.Watch Live: Donald Trump Addresses the Department of WarJayapal: I Haven't Said Anything Inciteful, ICE Has 'Kidnapped' PeopleShock Poll: Broad Majority of Americans Reject Democrat Push to Shut Down GovernmentFarage: Starmer Inciting Violence by Radical Left Antifa Against Millions of Britons by Labelling Them Racist ‘Enemy’Kidnapped Nigerians Say Terrorists Use Vast Network of Villages to Persecute Locals
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