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[Q]: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Stephen Gayle ? Stephen Gayle died Thursday night after Temple police officers who responded to a disturbance call tried to put him in handcuffs. A Temple Police Department spokeswoman said Friday that the Texas Department of Public Safety will investigate the death and that there's no indication the officers "acted outside the scope of their duties."
Temple officers responded to a disturbance complaint around 7:30 p.m. Thursday near an apartment complex. They encountered  Gayle   believing he was responsible for the disturbance  and said he was uncooperative and appeared intoxicated  according to a police release. During a struggle  the officers tried to handcuff  Gayle  and put  him  inside a police car  police said.
The Temple Daily Telegram reports that  Gayle 's family and people who witnessed the incident are questioning the account police have given. Witnesses who spoke to the newspaper said the officers  who were white  used excessive force to arrest  Gayle   who was black.
Wanda Nichols  a church pastor who lives in the neighborhood  said she saw  Gayle  walking down the street and yelling before police arrived. She said she thought  he  was trying to get the attention of a child who was practicing football nearby.
[A]: Positive


[Q]: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Rachel Botsman ? In her witty new book Australian technology author and TED celebrity Rachel Botsman tells us why it did not work. Who Can You Trust? How Technology Brought Us Together and Why It Could Drive Us Apart might be a bit too perky for some but it reveals some deep truths.
With industrial power collapsed  social media’s “distributed trust” began its run to win popular trust.  Botsman  even claims to have predicted the next stage of evolution  anticipating Airbnb  Zipcar and Uber in  her  previous book. At first the masses took to social technology like ducks to water but few thought through the costs of power flowing from institutional experts to less sophisticated individuals. It turned out that these social media had institutions too  if less hierarchical  but still leading to someone at the top with a great degree of control over the people’s “open” media below them.
 Botsman  says  she  would not have written  her  book if  she  did not think distributed networks could solve many problems and develop popular trust  but the many examples presented in  her  book demonstrate that “distributed trust always seem to lead us back to centralized power ” with Facebook  Amazon  and Alibaba leading the list.
 Her  thesis is that distributed systems need to know who is telling the truth in order to be social but their media technology develop so fast and anonymously it becomes difficult to trace accountability. Perhaps 75 percent of automobiles will self-drive by 2040. How can sufficient trust develop in such a major activity in such a short time? Blockchains like Bitcoin may replace governmental currency and financial transactions. Robots threaten to take everyone’s job. The most famous bot was HAL 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey and we all know what happened then. Some “trust pause” will certainly be necessary for such major social transitions.
Take the number one social media technology guy  Mark Zuckerberg  who created Facebook to be an open forum for public discussion. Yet  after social media was accused of biasing the presidential election even  he  had to reluctantly concede (the second time) that there was an abundance of fake news on  his  site  which  he  then promised to fix in a socially positive way.  His  solution was to balance alternative views by adding “additional perspectives ” including noting after doubtful material that fact checkers disputed the claims in the original published news. But who would do the “fact checking”?
 Botsman  does not mention  it  but Google’s top scientist Ray Kurzweil had bigger ideas. Computers would be thinking for themselves by 2014 with humans becoming immortal soon after. Humans would become immortal under Kurzweil’s Calico project to replicate nature’s control of mitochondrial DNA by moving toxic bacteria into the cell nucleus to stop aging. With age under control people would live forever. At the same time  artificial intelligence would develop computers that learn by themselves. Ageless individuals could then link an AI machine to their brain so they could give accurate and immediate responses to every kind of question. But if this takes place instantly  is that a person still a person or a computer?
China’s Social Credit System would produce a “social credit score” for every Chinese citizen and introduce national networks of shame to ameliorate and control unruly segments of the population. This system should have a bullish future in much of the world now under authoritarian governments.  Botsman  quips: “Today China  tomorrow a place near you.”
Not a place in the U.S. with its democratic government protecting privacy  right? One big obstacle to such protection mentioned by  Botsman  is that government regulation simply cannot keep up with the explosive rate of change in private social media technology. There is that free speech and press stuff but Congress just approved another renewal of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act seventeen years after 9/11 and few doubt that some similar future horrendous terrorist act would make the government’s surveillance even more intrusive.
 Botsman ’s general solution to increase social trust is to rely upon reputation  which is sound  but extremely difficult to evaluate as  her  book proves.
How do we even know if  Botsman  isn’t a bot already  predicting China for us all?
[A]: Positive


[Q]: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Recep Tayyip Erdogan ? Instead   Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan  had barely landed in Athens earlier this month before  he  rattled  his  Greek hosts by addressing a series of disputes  and calling into question a crucial treaty that delineates the two countries' borders and sets the status of their minorities.
 His  confrontational stance was one Erdogan's Western allies have become increasingly familiar with  as Turkey's president goes  his  own way  unfettered by collective goals and seeking to promote  his  country as a force to be reckoned with.
"I think he's better than previous leaders  at least with Muslim countries " Yilmaz Demiroz  a 48-year-old landscape gardener in Istanbul  said of  Erdogan . " He  has the clearest stance from all the leaders I've seen."
For their part  Europeans have been aghast at the results of  Erdogan 's crackdown after the attempted coup  which has seen 110 000 people fired from their jobs  and about 50 000 more jailed on suspicion of even the most tenuous of links to Fethullah Gulen  the US-based Islamic cleric  Erdogan  blames for the putsch.
Turkey's relations with the US have fared even worse  fueled by accusations from Ankara that Washington is seeking to deliberately undermine it  both by harboring Gulen and due to an ongoing New York trial of a Turkish banker over alleged transactions with Iran that threatens to implicate  Erdogan 's government. How US-Turkish ties will develop is unclear  analysts say.
As relations have cooled with the EU and Washington  they have seemed to warm with Moscow and Tehran.  Erdogan  and Russian President Vladimir Putin have met several times so far this year  and Tukey recently signed a deal to purchase Russian S-400 missiles. The move horrified NATO  of which Turkey has been a member since 1952.
"Russia can only play a supplementary role with regard to Turkey's economy " said Filis. "Although  Erdogan  finds it easier to communicate with Putin  because they're both authoritarian  I don't think that in the long term Russia can replace the West in terms of security and in terms of the economy."
Ozkan shared the view  nothing that with Turkey drifting toward authoritarianism   Erdogan  was trying to redefine relations that limit liberal  outside influences and increase  his  negotiating power.
"There have been lots of reports about Turkey leaving the West and making an alliance with Russia. And I don't think this reflects reality " he said. "I don't think that  President Erdogan  wants Turkey to leave the western camp. .... (the) Turkish economy simply cannot survive without western investment. And Russia doesn't have that financial power."
"Is Europe going to accept  Erdogan  as  he  is  or is Europe going to force  him  to change  according to European standards?" questioned Ozkan. "That's the biggest issue."
[A]:
Neutral