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You make it sound like big tech companies never cooperate with the law enforcement. I bet CIA and FBI have their hand so far up Zuck’s ass it’s almost like Mino
by f6v 3y ago
You make it sound like big tech companies never cooperate with the law enforcement. I bet CIA and FBI have their hand so far up Zuck’s ass it’s almost like Minority Report at this point.
- cookiengineer 3y agoOf course it is like this. We live in the golden age of cyberwars. But you as a founder decide whose values of the surrounding society you align your company with. In an autocratic nation these controls are kind of absolutist in nature, whereas in democracies you have at least some sense of oversight. Given the mechanics of the game, where you reside your company tells a lot about who you're friends with. These days on a larger scale there's basically NATO, SCO, UAE, Israel and the African Union as alliances (setting aside (former) British colonies). Companies have to cooperate with either of those, otherwise they would not be allowed to exist.
- agentgumshoe 3y ago> These days on a larger scale there's basically NATO, SCO, UAE, Israel and the African Union as alliances (setting aside (former) British colonies). Which one's the good one?
- SenHeng 3y agoOnly Siths deal in absolutes. Among that list, NATO is by far the preferred option.
- ben_w 3y agoI'm not even sure which SCO is under discussion here, the unix one, Pakistan's "Special Communications Organization", the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, or if Scotland is up to something surprising, or if it's one of several "State Controller's Office" and "Special Counsel's Office" in the USA…
- f6v 3y agoI mean, unless you live in Middle East and one day they say you have WMD and they destroy your whole country. If you live in the EU or the US - then yes.
- agentgumshoe 3y agoOr you live in Russia and you thought you had a deal that NATO wouldn't encroach further on your border... It was a trick question, none of them are good.
- ben_w 3y agoSoviet Union asked to join NATO but was rejected, and the post-Soviet Russian Federation started on the path to joining back in the day. It's not NATO's fault that all the small countries around Russia are so scared of Russian forces that they all ask to join a mutual defence pact.
- f6v 3y agoRussia wanting to join NATO is an anecdote.
- paulryanrogers 3y agoHas NATO crossed any Russian border? Now nearing borders appears motivated more by Russia's bullying of its neighbors than any desire within NATO to expand. Maybe you're forgetting the protection treaty Russia signed to respect Ukraine's borders in exchange for USSR nukes.
- f6v 3y ago> Has NATO crossed any Russian border? Does NATO even have a border with the counties member states invaded in the past three or so decades? Except Yugoslavia.
- Veen 3y agoFor your statement to make sense, Russia's borders would have to start at Ukraine's borders, which they do not.
- enkid 3y agoNone of those things except NATO is an actual alliance.
- hulitu 3y ago> whereas in democracies you have at least some sense of oversight Can you give some examples of oversight ?
- Veen 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Intelligence_Community_Oversight https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Intelligence_Com...