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z3t4 on April 6, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: A speech-to-text practitioner’s criticisms of indu...

When this becomes a solved problem, government agencies will have a field day. So it has to be delayed until most of the world has free speech.

mkl on April 6, 2020 [–]

That sounds absurd. Government agencies are not holding back an entire industry of researchers.

And surely the countries without free speech would be among the most interested in computer-based eavesdropping.

z3t4 on April 6, 2020 | [–]

We live in a world where some people have immense power. We, as in engineers and scientists are the enablers.

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