“I’m not surprised that the pendulum swung one way and there was all this room for experimentation and now it’s swinging back the other way and you actually can’t do these things,” said Shazeda Ahmed, a visiting researcher at New York University’s AI Now Institute who has extensively studied the relationships between China’s tech industry and the local, provincial and central government.
Ahmed said there had long been an implicit understanding that the Chinese government would allow tech entrepreneurs to experiment domestically as they built their companies up in preparation to compete abroad. But, Ahmed says, at some point success can breed envy and fear.
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