View this post on Instagram Jan 15, 2020 - Pompeo Warns US Tech Companies Against Aiding Chinese Regime’s ‘Orwellian Surveillance State’⠀ Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Jan. 13 warned Silicon Valley leaders of the dangers of working with the Chinese communist regime, imploring them not to let U.S. technology “power a truly Orwellian surveillance state.”⠀ “We need to make sure that our companies don’t do deals that strengthen a competitor’s military or tighten the regime’s grip of repression in parts of that country,” Pompeo told a meeting of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. The group is an association of more than 350 companies in the California tech hub.⠀ “We need to make sure American technology doesn’t power a truly Orwellian surveillance state. We need to make sure American principles aren’t sacrificed for prosperity,” he said.⠀ ⠀ Read: https://ept.ms/2tZyjA6⠀ Subscribe: https://ept.ms/SubscribetoNewspaper⠀ GET THE APP: ⠀ iPhone - https://ept.ms/ETAppiPhone⠀ Android - https://ept.ms/ETAppAndroidA post shared by The Epoch Times (@epochtimes) on Jan 15, 2020 at 1:20pm PST
Jan 15, 2020 - Pompeo Warns US Tech Companies Against Aiding Chinese Regime’s ‘Orwellian Surveillance State’⠀ Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Jan. 13 warned Silicon Valley leaders of the dangers of working with the Chinese communist regime, imploring them not to let U.S. technology “power a truly Orwellian surveillance state.”⠀ “We need to make sure that our companies don’t do deals that strengthen a competitor’s military or tighten the regime’s grip of repression in parts of that country,” Pompeo told a meeting of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. The group is an association of more than 350 companies in the California tech hub.⠀ “We need to make sure American technology doesn’t power a truly Orwellian surveillance state. We need to make sure American principles aren’t sacrificed for prosperity,” he said.⠀ ⠀ Read: https://ept.ms/2tZyjA6⠀ Subscribe: https://ept.ms/SubscribetoNewspaper⠀ GET THE APP: ⠀ iPhone - https://ept.ms/ETAppiPhone⠀ Android - https://ept.ms/ETAppAndroid
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