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I never predicted that we’d end up actually paying to build a corporate controlled surveillance dystopia, but here we are.
by moomin 6y ago
I never predicted that we’d end up actually paying to build a corporate controlled surveillance dystopia, but here we are.
- imglorp 6y agoIt's all partly subsidized by the US government. https://action.aclu.org/petition/amazon-stop-selling-surveillance https://action.aclu.org/petition/amazon-stop-selling-surveil... (Ex?) NSA is literally now on the Board https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24426500 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24426500
- stevehawk 6y agohe's not on the board to push cameras. he's on the board to help amazon win defense contracts.
- mikro2nd 6y agoAlways possible for a person to have more than one purpose/goal in doing a job.
- unionpivo 6y agowho says that ring deployments aren't defense contracts. Just because amazon said they are sharing footage with police departments doesn't mean they aren't sharing it with other federal agencies
- hinkley 6y ago1984 sort of glosses over how the monitoring hardware ends up in everyone's homes, but I think it's safe to say that they participated in the installations in the beginning.
- moomin 6y agoI think when 1984 was published (1949) it was generally assumed most people had a pretty good idea how to create a surveillance state.