Re:Cyberterrorism and the Role of Silicon Valley
by bpolverini on Thursday June 16, 2016 @07:34PM
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I can see Orwell was right already. "Terrorism" (the word) has become, by and large, a tool of nation-states and institutions like RAND to legitimize another horrific term: "extra judicial killing" (i.e. murder).
The last thing we as technologists need to do is feel obligated to take part in some continuous war against a concept that cannot be defined, with a victory no one understands or articulates.
Liberty has costs. We can either live in perfectly monitored and managed security (i.e. fascism) or make trade-offs that give us privacy and freedom critical to human flourishing.
Re:Cyberterrorism and the Role of Silicon Valley
by kordless on Thursday June 16, 2016 @08:28PM
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Our propensity to decouple suffering from causality is disconcerting. Complete elimination of suffering equals complete integration of all interests. Sounds fairly inefficient to me.
The last thing we as technologists need to do is feel obligated to take part in some continuous war against a concept that cannot be defined, with a victory no one understands or articulates.
Liberty has costs. We can either live in perfectly monitored and managed security (i.e. fascism) or make trade-offs that give us privacy and freedom critical to human flourishing.