Their students come to America. They take CS courses. They earn bachelor's and master's degrees. They take software engineering jobs. They work at our companies. They learn our technologies. They learn our technical secrets. We show them how to make world-class products. Hell, they have damn near full access to copy whatever they like from our code and our systems. At any point, they can take what they possess, take what they've learned, and return home to then benefit China with everything they've learned and taken from us.

Rowling's been consistently harassed and attacked online with the intent to silence the author. Fans have coordinated to boycott her works. Bookstores have pulled her books over her views. Some folks have burned her books. Any mention of her has been removed from museum galleries dedicated to the Harry Potter series. There was a recent campaign to boycott the new Harry Potter game. Players of Quidditch changed it's name to to dissociate it away from her. In short, a whole group of people attempted to silence Rowling, erase her existence from society, and remove her written work. That's censorship.

Ok, now I know you're full of it. Both Dawkins and Maher are left-of center and always have been. Neither have moved from the positions they've defended for decades. Dawkins is promoting basic biology just like he has over his entire career. Males have a penis. Women have a vagina. Sex is immutable and can't change. No one can self-ID into the opposite sex. Cutting off a man's penis doesn't turn him into a woman. The only difference now is that today there's a significant amount of anti-science, anti-fact nonsense currently being promoted by gender ideologues and social justice warriors, who claim to be part of the left while promoting sexism, racism, and homophobia. (Wearing pink clothes or a dress doesn't turn a boy a girl. Likewise, girls who wear baseball hats and play sports doesn't make them boys. Those are sexist stereotypes. Blacks being bigoted against whites is called racism. Yes, it's possible for blacks to be racist against whites. Trans women who denigrate lesbians for not wanting to have sex with someone who has a penis are homophobic.)

As for content moderation, it's clear that departments are run by woke ideologues who equate any and all criticism of ideas as hate and violence. They take the authoritarian stance of silencing all opposition by banning critics. Many of the social media sites have become echo chambers in which only woke social justice opinions are deemed appropriate despite their promotion of racism, sexism, and homophobia.

Sorry, the folks getting censored are more than right-wingers. Liberal feminists such as JK Rowling are regularly getting censored for pointing out the fact that men have a penis, women have a vagina, and men should be kept separate from women in places like rape crisis centers, prisons, sports, toilets, changing rooms, etc. Other liberal-leaning folks who agree with her such as Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Ricky Gervais, Bill Maher, Dave Chappelle, Macy Gray, Bette Midler, and Alice Cooper have also faced cancellation attempts, including on big tech platforms. The authoritarian, regressive, woke, social justice warriors constantly attack the progressive left while also falsely claiming to represent the progressive left. This group controls the moderation departments of big tech companies and purposefully target anyone who questions their ideology, from both the right and the left.

Years ago, tech companies didn't want speech on their websites regulated because the text they display comes from users. Companies didn't want government intervention for speech they didn't create. In fact, the companies wanted laws passed to protect them from the consequences of user's free speech. Why blame the companies for what the users wrote?

Now, companies are claiming a first amendment right to show what they want on their own websites. They claim it'd be government infringement on their rights if we impose any requirements guaranteeing free speech for users. Companies now claim the right to display what they want on their own websites!

As usual, it looks like companies want it both ways, whichever benefits them the most.

(And, is it just me or is it weird as hell that it's the Republicans fighting for free speech today? Free speech used to be a progressive, liberal Democratic topic. It's certainly not just the Republicans that are getting silenced by the tech companies.)

China's good at copying goods, processes, and technology that the US and the rest of the world originally invented. This has been true across multiple industries over the last 25 years as US and the rest of the world moved manufacturing to China. That move was only because China had lots and lots of cheap labor. It wasn't because China were smarter or somehow better at making things than anyone else.

Sex is recorded at birth. In the case of ambiguous genitalia, a genetic test can provide the sex of the child.

As for gender or gender identity, there is no scientific basis that either of these actually exist. People have faith in gender and gender identity. All the talk and posturing around these terms is akin to religious belief. Discussions around these topics are inherently unscientific.

Disorders of sexual development do not mean a person born with that condition is a third sex. All humans are of a body type that either normally produces eggs (females) or produces sperm (males). There is no third gamete and therefore, no third sex. In the rare cases where a baby is born with ambiguous genitalia, a genetic test can be done to determine their sex.

Further, we were talking about trans people when you brought up intersex folks. It's transphobic to assume that all trans people are intersex.

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There's no such sex as non-binary. Anyone who defines themselves as such has defined themselves as something which doesn't exist. All people are either of the body type that produces eggs (female) or produces sperm (male). There is no third gamete and hence, no third sex.

Male puberty supplies many advantages besides testosterone. Those advantages include height, wingspan, lung capacity, heart capacity, raw strength, bone density, etc. Stopping or limiting testosterone doesn't reduce any of these permanent changes.

The only fair way to conduct sports is to separate men from women. (And yes, I'm using the historical definitions of those words. You know, the definitions based on sex.)

Non-binary is some sex designation that isn't quite male and isn't quite female. Problem is that such a sex doesn't exist. There's no sex spectrum. People are all either male or female. There's nothing in-between.

Anyone calling themselves non-binary is labeling themselves as something which doesn't exist. It's an imaginary sex category.

And yes, this is different from the trans folks who at least have the common sense to label themselves as a sex which actually exists, even if changing sex isn't physically possible.

No. We’ve had sex non-discrimination laws on the books for half a century. All this focus on gender is new as of the past 10 years or so. As everyone these days like to say, gender is separate from sex. We have no federal laws passed which protect gender or gender identity.

Side note: no one has a “gender they were assigned at birth.” People have a sex. It’s either male or female. It’s determined by your chromosomes. It’s set at conception when the sperm meets the egg. The only thing that the doctor does at birth is record your sex. Even so, most parents can get an ultrasound and determine the sex of their kid months before birth. This whole “assigned at birth” stuff is nonsense. It makes it sound like the doctor is giving you some arbitrary label and declaring “that’s your sex!” That’s not what happens. Stop using that bullshit language.

You don’t need a genital inspection point for anything to determine sex. You can go off the sex recorded on your birth certificate or license. Of course, that’s presuming your state hasn’t been taken over by a bunch of trans ideologues who will let people arbitrarily change the sex on their birth certificate or license. If that’s the case, then I say yes, set up the genital inspection station. Fuck them for making stupid changes to the law. Make it completely clear the stupidity of these sorts of legal changes.

As for women in sport, it’s easy to come up with a definition of woman that can be used in sport. A woman is an adult human female. A female is a person with the body type that produces eggs. In general terms, it’s the adults with vaginas - not the ones with penises.

Amazon has laid off 27,000 people, Meta has laid off 21,000, Microsoft has laid off 10,000, and Google has laid off 10,000 workers in recent months. Those are just the largest employers. Plenty of other companies have laid off tech workers too.

So no, there is no shortage of engineers right now - today.

That new grad from Stanford with a PhD in CS needs to return home to whatever country they're from. There are plenty of STEM workers already in the US that need jobs.

Likewise, I don't see the problem with written multiple choice, written short answer, or written long-form assessment. As long as the student is assessed using some form of pen to paper without access to computing devices, then that's what really matters.