This is worth reading all the way through. MIT takes money from Israel’s defense ministry to research better ways to genocide Palestinians, and subjects any student who points it out to violence and legal attacks.

I guess they’re really proud of their support for Israel.

If it hurts cis women as well as trans people, Republicans will consider it a bonus.

To do it based on intent would create some difficult grey areas - for example, video game creators would have to try to make their games as compelling as possible without passing a more or less vague threshold and breaking the law. The second approach of working on the ways different types of data can be used sounds more promising.

How would you identify the kinds of algorithms that should be banned, as opposed to all the other kinds of algorithms? I have a feeling that would be tricky.

Once again ordinary people in the West are saved from affordable, low-pollution living, and Western companies are saved from having to compete.