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If its sole purpose is assisting you violate somebodies rights or privacy, it's probably not "socially useful".
by FridgeSeal 6y ago
If its sole purpose is assisting you violate somebodies rights or privacy, it's probably not "socially useful".
- bhupy 6y agoThe "sole" purpose (again, their website shows a ton of other use cases) appears to be to assist elected governments in violating somebody's rights/privacy. From where I sit, elected governments decide what's "socially useful". For better or for worse, the American electorate approves of the CIA/FBI -> https://news.gallup.com/poll/224804/republicans-push-government-agency-ratings-not-fbi.aspx https://news.gallup.com/poll/224804/republicans-push-governm.... This is even more the case for defense, which is just about the only American institution that has had a reliably consistent approval rating -> https://truthout.org/articles/why-does-the-us-military-have-sky-high-approval-ratings-during-endless-wars/ https://truthout.org/articles/why-does-the-us-military-have-... Alex Karp's CEO letter makes a similar point: "The engineering elite of Silicon Valley may know more than most about building software. But they do not know more about how society should be organized or what justice requires."