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BEIJING, Nov. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — The 20th CPC National Congress report emphasized the utmost importance of advancing whole-process people’s democracy and ensuring that people run the country. People’s democracy is the lifeblood of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and it is integral to China’s efforts to build a modern socialist country in all respects. How to understand democracy in China? According to Victor Gao, Chairman of Yale Law School Association of China, philosophically… Source link

Google’s aesthetic has always been rooted in a clean appearance—a homepage free of advertising and pop-up clutter, adorned only with a signature “doodle” decorating its name. Part of why many users love Google is its sleek designs and ability to return remarkably accurate results. Yet the simplicity of Google’s homepage is deceptively static. Overtime, the way that the corporation returns information has shifted ever so slightly. These incremental changes go largely unnoticed by… Source link

The Alliance for Securing Democracy (ASD) created a dashboard that launched last week showing the type of information a Russian citizen inside the country or a Russian-language speaker outside Russia’s borders sees on the Yandex.ru in an effort to better understand the type of news and information seen. “We wanted … Source link

The editor Marty Baron was famously portrayed by Liev Schreiber in the movie “Spotlight,” which chronicles The Boston Globe’s exposure of pervasive abuse by Catholic priests. After leaving The Globe, Baron began another difficult assignment: leading The Washington Post during Donald Trump’s tumultuous presidency. His time at the helm of the paper ended with his retirement in February. In an interview this week for Influencers with Andy Serwer, Baron reflected on Trump’s legacies on the… Source link

Law360 (April 30, 2021, 2:38 PM EDT) — A Tiananmen Square protestor and Chinese political activist will have to try again on his claims that Yahoo Inc. helped the Chinese government track down and imprison him, after a California federal court found he failed to specify when the tech giant’s alleged misconduct occurred. In an order filed Thursday, U.S. District Judge Lucy H. Koh dismissed with leave to amend the complaint brought by Ning XIanhua against Yahoo’s successor… Source link

But Western operations are recognizable, according to one former senior US intelligence official. “There are certain hallmarks in Western operations that are not present in other entities … you can see it translate down into the code,” said the former official, who is not authorized to comment on operations and spoke on condition of anonymity. “And this is where I think one of the key ethical dimensions comes in. How one treats intelligence activity or law enforcement activity… Source link

In 1787, on the eve of the French Revolution, Thomas Jefferson wrote to Edward Carrington, dispatched to the Continental Congress, on the role of a free press. If he had to choose between “a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government,” Jefferson wrote, “I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.” The founding father feared governments, including the one he helped design, would become predatory if unchecked by a knowledgeable citizenry. And here we are.

With all the attention on politics and COVID-19 right now, you may have missed this recent headline: “Elon Musk overtakes Jeff Bezos to become world’s richest person.” Or maybe you did see it and thought, who cares? Well you should. (Before you continue reading, a trigger warning: This column is about staggering wealth. The numbers you are about to read will shock you.) It’s not so much that Musk is now worth some $200 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, versus… Source link