NY Post says Facebook hired Chinese nationals as censors
Jack Kemp
The NY Post has a shocking article by Sohrab Ahmari which I urge you all to read in full here.
Below are sample quotes from the piece.
There are at least half a dozen "Chinese nationals who are working on
censorship,†a former Facebook insider told me last week. "So at some
point, they [Facebook bosses] thought, ‘Hey, we’re going to get them
H-1B visas so they can do this work.’ â€
The insider shared an internal directory of the team that does much
of this work. It’s called Hate-Speech Engineering (George Orwell, call
your office),.. Many have Ph.D.s, and their work is extremely complex...
It all makes for perhaps the most chillingly sophisticated censorship
mechanism in human history. ...Instead, "content that is a
little too conservative, they will down-rank. You can’t tell it’s
censored.â€
END OF QUOTE
The article goes on to say
that many high tech firms recruit foreign nationals from China and
other countries, many of whom bring their political
viewpoints on freedom with them to the U.S. Apparently the Chinese censors idea of
"The American Dream" for them is an American paycheck
with a Chinese Communist "Right Thinking" speech code, a type of Free
Speechless in Seattle (where they work for Facebook).