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It’s not like this stuff wasn’t known to be a problem 10 years ago. We were already in Trump’s first term, it’s not like it was part of the early post 9/11 “sec
by MBCook 19d ago
It’s not like this stuff wasn’t known to be a problem 10 years ago. We were already in Trump’s first term, it’s not like it was part of the early post 9/11 “secure everything” push. It was WAY after that.
10 years ago is no excuse.
- ohyoutravel 19d agoIt’s not an excuse, but gives some luxury of distance. We have a lot more hindsight now on how rotten things can become, so with that hindsight it’s easy to say that companies like Flock shouldn’t exist, or shouldn’t be invested in. Ten years ago required some more leaps in foresight that some people were making, I was, but even I didn’t think it would get as evil as it has.
- MBCook 19d agoIDK. We’d already had plenty of spying by companies, the government, police abuse, etc. It was all quite plain then. And the very heavy rhetoric made it very obvious which direction things would go.
- jackb4040 19d agoThe NSA spying scandal happened under Obama even! IMO that was the defining moment for electronic privacy as a real political issue; before that we were very much in post-9/11 state of exception mode.