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#231 – Alex Gladstein: Bitcoin, Authoritarianism, and Human Rights
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Chinese Government's Laboratory for Digital Leninism
Hackers can spoof government data to confuse it at a mass scale. In Xinjiang, each home has a QR code that the police can scan and get an instant download of who lives there. "This is like the Chinese government's laboratory for how can we use technology to oppress this sort of digital Leninism," he says.
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