Founder of facial-rec controversy biz Clearview AI booted from board

Clearview AI has booted founder and former CEO Hoan Ton-That from its board, just weeks after he stepped down as president. Hoan Ton-That confirmed his removal, which Forbes reported was the result of a Tuesday shareholder vote, to The Register on Wednesday. "I was unexpectedly removed from the Clearview AI board," Ton-That …

[ecofeco]

Now Add Shopfy to the list

Another company cheer leading because of sunk cost.

As for Clearview AI, there HAS to be more going on than meets the eye. Because someone as sociopathic as Ton-That, is definitely doing some very unsavory things out of the public eye, to get booted from what is essentially, a fascist supporting company. (Unwanted surveillance)

Very unsavory.

[Gene Cash]

Re: Now Add Shopfy to the list

Well damn. That makes me very sad.

They were the only web shopping folks besides Amazon to have their shit together. They replaced some of the roll-your-own non-functional trash web shops.

[An_Old_Dog]

Thin Entering Wedge

Today, the USCIS is scanning for signs of anti-Semitism.

Next month, it may be scanning for any-and-all characteristics disliked by the current administration: anti-Nazism, "incorrect" political afilliations and tendencies, supporting equal rights, feminism, environmentalism, etc.

[Hubert Cumberdale]

Re: Thin Entering Wedge

"...will start scanning foreigners' social media for signs of antisemitism"

...and this is why you should stay completely off social media, only posting under pseudonyms on sites like this.

Here, I can feel free to say exactly what I think about Israel's blatant war crimes, such as torture, the ongoing murder of civilians, including children, and the state's general genocidal intentions. I strongly suspect that this would be interpreted as antisemitic by such a scan, and it probably will be seen as such by some on this forum. But Israel is not "the Jews"–such a conflation would be strongly resented by many Jewish people–it is a rogue state whose illegal actions continue to be excused by the US.

The international community should no more be supporting Israel's ongoing violations of human rights and international law than they should be condoning the 7 October attacks by Hamas. Just because a party has been wronged, it doesn't mean that they can do no wrong. The oppressed has now become the oppressor.

I look forward to downvotes and rabid comments from supporters of wanted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu.

[Hubert Cumberdale]

Re: Thin Entering Wedge

(Have to say, I'm actually slightly disappointed by the mildly positive reaction to this. I was gearing up to disagree with someone.)

[Anonymous Coward]

USCIS scanning foreigners' social media for signs of antisemitism

Because only True Red White and Blue Americans get to accuse George Soros of everything from rigging elections to making your Hershey bar melt in your back pocket.