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We saw the same thing after Snowden, people were leaving the NSA in mass after the average person became aware of the situation. Data collection is what enable
by notjtrig 9y ago
We saw the same thing after Snowden, people were leaving the NSA in mass after the average person became aware of the situation.
Data collection is what enabled the Nazis to find Jews and homosexuals, the next mass percution can be more specific than race. Anti-vaxers, pizzagaters, people who don't watch anough TV.
As the world becomes more aware of the dangers of algorithms and AI, Facebook engineers are rethinking their career path.
It's clear to me that Zuckerberg was entirely too willing to abuse his power from the start, he doesn't seem to have good intentions at all.
- tajen 9y ago> Anti-vaxers, pizzagaters, people who don't watch anough TV. Let’s be honest: What we’re after is Trump voters, Alex Jones/Milo fans, supporters of James Damore, non-feminists, non-supporters of Emmy Awards stances and generally all people who don’t laugh enough at Steven Colbert jokes. It was made very clear, for example at Google, that managers are building blacklists, and that HR supports them.
- lainga 9y agoTrump voters The other groups maybe, but I doubt even Stalin thought the Great Purges would have gone better if he purged 49% of the Soviet Union's population.
- manjushri 9y agoAre you implying 49% of the US population voted for Trump? It was closer to 19% of the population (63,000,000 / 326,000,000)
- GCU-Empiricist 9y agoWhat percentage voted?
- smelterdemon 9y agoWell, it's more like 19% of the population (or 27% of the eligible voter pop.)
- manjushri 9y ago>Data collection is what enabled the Nazis to find Jews and homosexuals It's also worth noting that a certain American tech company was responsible for this. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust