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The internet is a massive network created by the military with the objective of surveillance baked in from its earliest origins. The LEO systems being built now
by AndrewBissell 6y ago
The internet is a massive network created by the military with the objective of surveillance baked in from its earliest origins. The LEO systems being built now will extend that network to every last corner of the globe, and the companies building them will do the bidding of the governments at whose behest they're allowed to function.
- trophycase 6y agoYes it will be a sad day when there is nowhere on the globe you can go to be truly dark.
- Causality1 6y agoStarlink has no impact on this nor do any other internet provider. The first spy satellites launched in 1959. Don't carry electronics with you and you can be as dark as any spot on earth has been in the last five decades.
- wongarsu 6y agoWhile you probably could carry a starlink antenna on a backpack, nobody forces you to (And it would be very inconvenient). They are much to big to be incorporated into smartphones or notebooks.
- ajsnigrutin 6y agoBoss: Vacation? Where are you going? You: Camping, in the mountains, sorry boss, no signal there, I won't be accessible. Boss: No problem.... here's a portable starlink antenna,... just in case... you know... if there is a bug in your code... or if we have a skype call with the clients... or if we need a bug fixed... haha.. you know, fixing bugs in the forest hehe.. well yeah... just have it connected during normal business hours, just in case... and check your emails while you're connected.. and slack... and CI logs... but otherwise, have a nice vacation, I hope you get some rest!
- salawat 6y agoIt wasn't surveillance. It was providing a self healing command and control network capable of surviving a nuclear attack. It evolved into a Internetwork of trusted hosts to facilitate rapid information dissemination. It took a bunch of advertisers to turn it into surveillance nirvana by realizing that you could use http requests and your own portable sensor platform and in-house OS to rake in profit overwhelming.
- pmoriarty 6y agoAdvertisers might have funded a lot of it and set the direction, but they couldn't have done it without armies of technology folk. At least early on, the latter had the excuse of lack of foresight regarding the dystopia they were building, but for decades now it's been more than obvious to everyone and most of them are continuing to cobble together their own prisons and ours.
- weruiojkl24 6y agoNah. It took a whole bunch of incompetent users who gave away their integrity for a few likes and pet videos. Pretty much same thing as complaining about bad leaders when the sheeple putting in the bad votes is the actual problem.
- renewiltord 6y agoWhile you're sitting on the Internet angry about their incompetence they're in bed with their partners laughing at cats. Who really is the loser here.
- ddorian43 6y agoDamn I need to increase my cat watching time.
- searchableguy 6y agohttps://youtu.be/xZ3RbDTc_fY https://youtu.be/xZ3RbDTc_fY
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