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Why does it matter if party A or party B is "the establishment?" Personally I think nobody should be able to mass-surveil the entire population. And I don't tr
by jordanb 11y ago
Why does it matter if party A or party B is "the establishment?"
Personally I think nobody should be able to mass-surveil the entire population. And I don't trust the tech giants at all (especially on matters of privacy) but in the words of Henry Kissinger: "there are no permanent allies, only permanent interests."
- fixermark 11y agoIt speaks to the disconnect that governments should have predicted but didn't: from one point of view, governments and big tech multinationals should be in the same boat (keeping the "users" safe and secure in their daily activities, able to go about their day without worrying about externalities that they've trusted big organizations to protect them from). But tech company employees don't generally see themselves as part of the same establishment ecosystem as the governments who want them to work together.