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Big government should just be treated as another customer of Big Tech
by kupopuffs 4y ago
Big government should just be treated as another customer of Big Tech
- speedgoose 4y agoThat would give them too much power, it is dangerous.
- LinuxBender 4y agoThey have been since WWII. In the recent years the CIA has been quite busy in silicon valley. [1] Prior to that many projects funded by DARPA were tested and refined by the general public. The internet was one of the projects. [1] - https://mattermark.com/q-tel-cias-vc-arm-busy-years/ https://mattermark.com/q-tel-cias-vc-arm-busy-years/
- est31 4y agoFWIW CIA involvement is much older than "recent years". https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-cia-and-nsa-research-grants-for-mass-surveillance https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-ci... https://gizmodo.com/larry-ellisons-oracle-started-as-a-cia-project-1636592238 https://gizmodo.com/larry-ellisons-oracle-started-as-a-cia-p...