How to Not Prop Up an APAC Social Reputation Economy
Anti-privacy online brokerages at the Big 4 and derivative platforms are propping up China’s economy using your personal data in exchanges. You can pull your “money”, or your personal data, out.
Last week’s assertion was the realization the PRC’s global monetary exchange for US personal data is one of the final Goliaths to beat to escape the totalitarian hitch to China. While everyone pointed to TikTok, as the obvious platform swooping US data into a Chinese eternity knot, Commerce Secretary, Gina Raimondo ran cover for the US tech sector’s maintaining the pipeline of US personal data to prop up China’s ailing economy.
Some Americans haven’t yet grasped the meaning of Raimondo’s visit with China’s commerce counterpart, so I’ll briefly recap. US market forces (aka the Notorious Invisible Hand) are decoupling from China’s factory and ailing Real Estate sector. The PRC’s aggressive posture crested with methods to jail foreigners on ‘espionage’ charges given an arbitrary range of interpretation. Circumstance of risk alongside COVID deprecation of deliverable goods and “all your IP/DNA/data are belong to us” killed continuity of functional trust needed to do business. China’s economy is now depressed.
Raimondo, for the sake of global geopolitical interests, paid a visit to China on labor and trade continuity. The only olive branch she offered to our top adversary was the continuity of American digital information and technology trade with the West for things like: motherboards, EV batteries, electronics parts and of course, your personal information as licensed by Big Tech.
The Biden Administration maintains the US tech sector can just keep a commercial security hole open, so big, [How big is it?] a herd of elephants could walk through it for the sake of China’s economy. The US Commerce Secretary made no bid to protect your privacy, your sovereignty, or your personal information as a matter of national interest. Your personal information and computing parts are the only American commodity propping up the People’s Republic of China’s flatlining economy.
Here’s the thing. I never really agreed with what is being done with my information in China’s double-sided trade. The FTC has a duty to address the unfair treatment of Americans personal information when it is processed as a Chinese commodity. Of course, all that platform surveillance is years long now in the possession of their government’s communist economy. The FTC never really went to bat for the American people on that one, because they only want to charge the Big 4 an occasional fine for a human rights violation. They stay out of the way and let Amazon and Facebook keep the communist-cause pipeline financed with demoralized American transactional information.
Communists do reject all sovereign democratic governments in their quest for coops and “revolution”. Someone (not you) promised the PRC could coach US governing factors on micromanaging speech and civility with extreme repressive online tactics from their government that violate our Constitutional rights. That matters not to Stanford, University of Washington, MIT and the like, because scholastic administrators now treat all students enrolled into their alma matters as a socialist entitlement.
Tech leaders of the future are now being taught to convey all American data, disregard the spirit and the manifest enforcement of our Constitution and public laws, and to “redefine” the legal meaning of standard English terms so they can produce communist effects. All to build and strengthen the transfer of power and money to the PRC from inside our borders with Gina Raimondo’s continued blessing, last week.
So, if you don’t want to play into the hands of tech--corporate’s big fat traitorous love affair with Chinese monetary exchanges and you want to pull your data out of the economic equation, I have a solution for you.
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