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I suppose I should have said that's rare among Presidents. Obama, for example, flat-out lied to his base about his stance on privacy rights, forever harming th
by downandout 10y ago
I suppose I should have said that's rare among Presidents. Obama, for example, flat-out lied to his base about his stance on privacy rights, forever harming the ability of US tech companies to compete with those in privacy-minded countries. When it came to light that he had authorized even more invasive government surveillance programs than any of his predecessors, including George W. Bush, he didn't even bother apologizing.
- threeseed 10y agoOf course it is rare among Presidents. It's stupid and counter productive. Presidents should be governing based on the national interest and educated, considered advice of the public servants. Not the ever changing, populist, ignorant whims of a minority of the country. I mean that from the left or right of the electorate. And no have not seen any indication the US tech companies are struggling to compete with anyone due specifically to privacy concerns. Apple is still arguably the leader in privacy, even yesterday they widely deployed differential privacy across iCloud analytics.
- downandout 10y agoYou're honestly going to argue that the whole NSA debacle didn't hurt American technology companies? https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/22/business/fallout-from-snowden-hurting-bottom-line-of-tech-companies.html?_r=0 https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/22/business/fallout-from-sno... https://phys.org/news/2015-06-snowden-revelations-costly-tech-firms.html https://phys.org/news/2015-06-snowden-revelations-costly-tec...
- dogma1138 10y agoYes because that didn't happen, check the dates and profit reports.