Re:The ties between Silicon Valley and the military run deep
by colechristensen on Saturday June 09, 2018 @12:28PM
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None of that happening has anything to do with technology.
The only reason we know about it is improvements in communications.
Nations having people killed across borders outside of the judicial system isn't a new thing, and it isn't going away. The technology to do it is incidental, and a very minor part of defense R&D output.
Functioning communications enables war crimes just as much as or more than weapons, so why not refuse to work on computer networking research too? (one could make a million such arguments about essentially everything)
The only reason we know about it is improvements in communications.
Nations having people killed across borders outside of the judicial system isn't a new thing, and it isn't going away. The technology to do it is incidental, and a very minor part of defense R&D output.
Functioning communications enables war crimes just as much as or more than weapons, so why not refuse to work on computer networking research too? (one could make a million such arguments about essentially everything)