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Of course the US government is surveilling HN, the US government is surveilling everyone, everywhere, all the time. You think they wouldn't pay close attention
by krapp 2y ago
Of course the US government is surveilling HN, the US government is surveilling everyone, everywhere, all the time. You think they wouldn't pay close attention to a forum owned by a billion dollar startup incubator that hosts talks by Elon Musk and was once run by the guy who went on to run OpenAI? Shit yeah they're surveilling HN.
And SV has always had deep connections to the military industrial complex. Feds post here, they doubtless have influence programs running here. Look up the relationship between Google and the CIA sometime. This was never a safe space from the government.
- jarsin 2y agoI sometimes wonder if there is a whole generation that has no idea who Snowden is. Or even if they know who he is they have no idea what secrets he released to the world.
- nunez 2y ago100%. In-Q-Tel (CIA venture capital) invested in Google forever ago, for example, and Silicon Valley used to be/still is a huge DoD R&D center (Fairchild, HP, etc.) Which is why our govt gutting major departments and having so much AI development come from the private sector is so troubling to me.