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Even better, the folks who frequent HN could stop aiding authoritarianism by building the tech, but that would require turning down lucrative RSUs, so I'm not h

• barnabee 3y ago
  We should not only stop building tech that aids authoritarianism but start building tech that fights it. Time for a cypherpunk revival.
  • brokenmachine 3y ago
    Dystopia is where the real money's at.
  • 1827162 3y ago
    And they'll just infiltrate your open source project, in the name of preventing petty "harassment" of developers. That way they will allow weaknesses in the protocol to arise, due to attrition of the best developers. And there you go, everything has been handed over to intelligence agencies, who can now easily break its security.
• 1827162 3y ago
  I totally nuked my career in communications and networking as a result of Internet mass surveillance and the prosecution of Orwellian "thought crimes". It really is a modern day witch hunt. Had to do something else, and am so much happier now that it's gone. Yes, I was so outraged and shocked from it, what the government was doing, specifically regarding Internet pornography, that I had "moral injury". A condition not dissimilar from PTSD. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_injury https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_injury We are living in the 21st Century and we are still behaving, on some level like it's 1692. The year when the Salem witch trials were carried out. And few people speak up about what's going on. They consider it normal. Because of how the Overton window works. How the frog has boiled so slowly over the decades.
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