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Bill Gates Foundation to Roll Out Remote Control Microchip-Based Birth Control

posted by takyon on Friday July 24 2015, @06:15PM   Printer-friendly
from the next-level-sterilization dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes in with a Natural News article criticizing a Gates Foundation birth control microchip prototype. It works by melting a small amount (30 micrograms daily, or about 175 milligrams over 16 years) of solid hormones stored inside the device using electricity.

[A] report noted that the chip is expected to remain viable for at least 16 years once implanted.

While the "target" population is poor, third-world women, such technology is, of course, ripe for abuse. After all, think about it: If that demographic is the primary target, why would the chips need to be encrypted? How many third-world populations have within their midst the technological capability or the power to resist?

When he began Microsoft, Bill Gates likely never thought he'd become rich enough to hold the power of life in his hands. Talk about your "evil corporations."

The sourced article says that the encryption is meant to prevent hackers or cybercriminals from accessing the device. Robert Langer says the chips could hit the market in 2018.

Additionally: This amazing remote-controlled contraceptive microchip you implant under your skin is the future of medicine [Washington Post] (July 17, 2014)

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by c0lo on Friday July 24 2015, @11:41PM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Friday July 24 2015, @11:41PM (#213378) Journal

    And we need to stop motherfuckers who lack the resources to take care of their kids, from having kids.

    It simple: give them enough resources to take care of their kids and they'll stop having kids. Happens with all societies passing the under-developed stage.

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  • (Score: 2) by Jeremiah Cornelius on Saturday August 01 2015, @05:25PM

    by Jeremiah Cornelius (2785) on Saturday August 01 2015, @05:25PM (#216791) Journal

    We have THOUSANDS of years of culture developed, where the abundance of children was of economic security.

    That changes when - as you say - alternative security is allowed for and supported.

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    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by c0lo on Sunday August 02 2015, @01:54AM

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Sunday August 02 2015, @01:54AM (#216905) Journal

      We have THOUSANDS of years of culture developed, where the abundance of children was of economic security.

      Those thousands of years of culture based on "economic security" still doesn't make "passing the under-developed stage" as a society.
      Look closer what happens withing the last 50 years or so - every time there's economic and social security, the population stops booming within 1-2 generations.

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