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awesome! please convince your colleagues to do the same. maybe it will trickle down to california, and LA in particular, where gov is love-nuzzling with google.
by clairity 6y ago
awesome! please convince your colleagues to do the same. maybe it will trickle down to california, and LA in particular, where gov is love-nuzzling with google.
- 0xffff2 6y agoAh, one of the downsides of working for the Federal government is that you forget that "government" isn't just the big players. Although I can't say I've encountered this in my interactions with the California government either. I would say that maybe there's a role for the Federal government to play in providing data hosting for smaller governments who can't afford to do it themselves, but with the general distrust of the Feds these days, I bet most here (including me, frankly) would rather give their data to MS and Google.
- clairity 6y agoi'm personally no fan of the gov-corp false dichotomy--we can neither completely trust nor distrust any institution. we the people use them as tools for a better society, not as tribal members, and need to stay vigilant of any concentration or expression of power, like surveillance. it's our duty. but yes, fed-gov providing smaller govs enterprise services seems like a potentially good and more efficient use of tax dollars, though concentrating surveillance is a concern.