I always think of Ai Weiwei when considering just what's possible under the Chinese government and system. It's nice that my property won't be demolished and that I won't be kidnapped and beaten by police just because the government doesn't like my criticisms.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_Weiwei

Evan Osnos has some interesting pieces about China and Ai Weiwei:

https://www.newyorker.com/news/evan-osnos/ai-weiwei-at-home-...

Are we just ignoring the black site in Chicago?

Thanks for this! You just reignited my interest in ML, months after dipping my toes at the end of EDx's Intro to Computational Thinking and Data Science.