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Dear citizens of the US: Please stop funding, allying with and protecting the manufacturers of surveillance tools. Stop exporting Palantir products and importi
by bigyabai 1y ago
Dear citizens of the US:
Please stop funding, allying with and protecting the manufacturers of surveillance tools. Stop exporting Palantir products and importing privacy-destroying devices from businesses like Greyshift and Cellebrite. Insist that the US government stop shielding hackers-for-hire like NSO Group who indiscriminately lease their products for discriminatory and illegal purposes. Stop defending "OEM" control that we have all known is a stand-in for federal steering since the Snowden leaks. Stop marketing E2EE while backdooring server and client hardware for "emergency" purposes.
Do that, and you'll never be accused of hypocrisy again. Signed, a US citizen.
- theodric 1y agoCollective guilt projection is incredibly unfair. What is the average US citizen expected to do in this? I hereby promise not to buy any weapons systems from Palantir or use Cellebrite if I forget my phone's PIN code. Am I one of the good ones now?
- bigyabai 1y agoMy point is to highlight the hypocrisy in HN casting stones from a glass house. I don't really believe you're beholden to fixing it (as I said, I'm a US citizen too). We just have to accept that the United States started this and is the only nation on Earth that can stop it. American surveillance technology is the role-model for abusive regimes and perfectly sensible governments around the world.
- baobun 1y agoA bunch of people pursuing or considering careers at those companies are hanging out here. Changing their minds should count for something.