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Surely this piece of news coming after SuperMicro report by Bloomberg is just a coincidence. Surely Business Insider wrote that piece of news from their own ini

Surely this piece of news coming after SuperMicro report by Bloomberg is just a coincidence. Surely Business Insider wrote that piece of news from their own initiative.

lovich 8y ago
It's dated 2013. Someone brought this exact article in another thread and now it's been brought up to so doubt about the hacking article. Seeing situations like these has led me to an intellectual predicament. In the past year or two I have seen a massive amount of propaganda and now I'm left with a question that I hope others can answer. How can we have free trade when every trade is weaponized? How can we have a dissemination of information when any single group who wants power uses every post on the internet as a way to insert their own ideas? We make fun of anti vaxxers but then we see that a government used a vaccination program to find their enemies[1]. We make fun of the paranoid, but then a Snowden comes out and we discover that they werent actually paranoid. How does a society function when any given transaction, whether in physical goods and services or information, is used as a weapon against another group? I dont see how we get out of this without reverting to a super tribalist set of societies that calls out everyone who is different from the default group. Whether that's based on ideology, race, geography, etc we are all losing out because we have reached a point where there is no trust between anyone anymore [1]https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/02/150227-polio-pakistan-vaccination-taliban-osama-bin-laden/ https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/02/150227-polio-pak...
- robbiep 8y ago
  It’s a long draw of the bow to go from the US tracking Osama under the guise of a polio campaign to your regular anti science anti vaccine westerner being justified in their pseudoscience. The answer to your question is the same way trust has always been built (and lost) - micro transactions establishing credibility and mutual trade and dependence, not in paranoia and closing doors, which is sure to only antagonise things

Surely this piece of news coming after SuperMicro report by Bloomberg is just a coincidence. Surely Business Insider wrote that piece of news from their own initiative.

lovich 8y ago

It's dated 2013. Someone brought this exact article in another thread and now it's been brought up to so doubt about the hacking article. Seeing situations like these has led me to an intellectual predicament. In the past year or two I have seen a massive amount of propaganda and now I'm left with a question that I hope others can answer. How can we have free trade when every trade is weaponized? How can we have a dissemination of information when any single group who wants power uses every post on the internet as a way to insert their own ideas? We make fun of anti vaxxers but then we see that a government used a vaccination program to find their enemies[1]. We make fun of the paranoid, but then a Snowden comes out and we discover that they werent actually paranoid. How does a society function when any given transaction, whether in physical goods and services or information, is used as a weapon against another group? I dont see how we get out of this without reverting to a super tribalist set of societies that calls out everyone who is different from the default group. Whether that's based on ideology, race, geography, etc we are all losing out because we have reached a point where there is no trust between anyone anymore [1]https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/02/150227-polio-pakistan-vaccination-taliban-osama-bin-laden/ https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/02/150227-polio-pak...

robbiep 8y ago
It’s a long draw of the bow to go from the US tracking Osama under the guise of a polio campaign to your regular anti science anti vaccine westerner being justified in their pseudoscience. The answer to your question is the same way trust has always been built (and lost) - micro transactions establishing credibility and mutual trade and dependence, not in paranoia and closing doors, which is sure to only antagonise things