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I'm partly in agreement with you, but my point of view is that the 'good guys', so to speak, are working at Google, Apple, Facebook, etc, and are incentivized t
by brndnmtthws 9y ago
I'm partly in agreement with you, but my point of view is that the 'good guys', so to speak, are working at Google, Apple, Facebook, etc, and are incentivized to protect their customers rather than assist the government (except, y'know, in cases where they got caught working with the gov).
If most of the talented folks are working in the private sector, it seems logical to conclude that no corrupt organization can 'hack' the privacy protections that are in place. Or at the very least, they're a lot less capable of doing so.
The pen is mightier than the sword, and corrupt political organizations will be left with nothing but a sword in the end. And that may eventually become useless, too.
- throwaway76025 9y agoYour viewpoint is both provincial and biased, and, ironically, not wrong in ways that conflict with your moral assertions. SV has a disgusting mafia in place protecting itself and “friends”. And there’s reason to believe in widespread cooperation between major SV players and govt. All of that is most successful if people don’t find out about it. So much power has accumulated in SV in recent years that it is trivial to turn the absolute power/corruption speech back on itself. Did I tell you what people with high level SV connections and connections to Peter Thiel did/said to me? No? There’s other shit going on. Big groups of talent inevitably have bad actors.