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People are building that alongside/within this community, eg at Palantir, for many years now YC CEO is also ex Palantir, early employee. Another YC partner bac

• matthewdgreen 3y ago
  What's different this time around is that there are multiple democratic governments pushing to block end-to-end encryption technologies, and specifically to insert AI models that will read private messages. Initially these will only be designed to search for heinous content, but the precedent is pretty worrying.
  • wahnfrieden 3y ago
    That's been the case for a long while. It's getting worse fast! Btw you say that about their initial design but I think you mean that may be the budget allocation justification without actually being a meaningful functional requirement during the design phase
• Analemma_ 3y ago
  But, but, I thought Thiel was a libertarian defending us from Wokeness. Surely you're not saying that was a complete smokescreen to get superpowered surveillance tech into the government's hands?
• wahnfrieden 3y ago
  By "politically" I meant that they are openly engaged in politics, in coordination, in support of the installation and legalized use of these kinds of surveillance/enforcement technologies and the policies that support their growth in private sector. This is just obvious and surface level open stuff I'm saying but I'm not sure how aware people are of the various interests involved.