By: Jianli Yang – Aug 22, 2022
Elon Musk is back in the headlines this week. The founder and CEO of Tesla contributed a piece to China Cyberspace, the official publication of the Cyberspace Administration of China, which is the government’s cyber censorship arm. It’s a big deal, and proof of how deeply entangled Musk is with a regime hostile to free speech, and to the human rights of its people more broadly.
Worse, Musk’s closeness with the Cyberspace Administration of China raises important questions about whether Musk, who has a Giga factory in China and has taken over $1 billion in loans from the country, has fallen prey to China’s Military Civil Fusion disclosure laws. And the stakes are high: Is Musk supplying China with classified information he gains by working with the U.S. space program and other national security-sensitive projects?
Not only does the Cyberspace Administration of China control and often choke the flow of information into and out of the country, but it also provides data security for… [Continue Reading]
Source: https://www.newsweek.com/big-tech-fully-cooperating-chinas-censorship-regime-its-got-stop-opinion-1735797