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Good thing tech companies no longer create technologies to help authoritarian regimes! </sarcasm>
by jasonhansel 7y ago
Good thing tech companies no longer create technologies to help authoritarian regimes! </sarcasm>
- devoply 7y agoWhat Google should do is just join the military industrial complex by forming a joint-venture with companies like Boeing, Raytheon, etc. Then everyone would just leave Brittany alone. It's easy to point your finger at China while turning a blind eye to Gitmo, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, etc. Going after Iran next. The price of "freedom" was maybe a few million Arabs or Afghans.
- frequentnapper 7y agoWhy can't we point our finger at both China and US industrial military complex?
- DonHopkins 7y agoHe's not ruling that out. He's just ruling out pointing at China while turning a blind eye to anyone else doing the same thing.
- TomMarius 7y agoIs it necessary to point out every single case in a discussion/article about a specific case? We all know the current state of the world, IMHO this requirement just makes the discussion harder.
- kekebo 7y agoIt might not be, but there may be value in pointing out that it's a systemic problem rather than one limited to one party. Besides, "we all know the current state of affairs" is an assumption I would be quite careful about.
- TomMarius 7y agoAgreed, but let's not dive deeply into the other countries and stay on the topic we have
- kingkawn 7y agoIt is important to make the case as broadly as possible for human rights, otherwise the individual smaller scale observations become weaponized between the major powers.
- hjek 7y agoShe/He is pulling a whataboutism.
- jasonhansel 7y agocough Project Dragonfly cough Xinjiang cough cough
- googlesux 7y agowinnie the poo
- jasonhansel 7y ago(I feel like "concealing information about concentration camps" wouldn't exactly comport with "don't be evil.")
- Shivetya 7y agoany technology or manufactured good can be put to improper use, so why not just be up front. mankind is the problem.
- cheez 7y agoNot just humans: https://listverse.com/2017/03/19/10-facts-about-chimpanzees-that-hold-a-dark-mirror-to-humanity/ https://listverse.com/2017/03/19/10-facts-about-chimpanzees-...
- LifeLiverTransp 7y agoTech is crystalized mass produceable behaviour. How can such a thing be every truely usefull on a large scale for a society of individuals?
- jasonhansel 7y agoSome technologies (from nuclear weapons to ransomware) are clearly particularly liable to be used for ill effect. In the IBM case, as the article explains, the technology was specifically designed by IBM for use by the Nazis.